NEW DELHI Former finance minister P Chidambaram Friday raised doubts over the GDP figures, wondering how the economy is growing at 7 per cent when the unemployment rate was the highest in 45 years. Taking a dig at the Centre, he claimed that when the government revised the GDP figures …

NEW DELHI Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said the government has broken the “back of back-breaking inflation” as it was able to bring the average rate of inflation down to 4.6 per cent. While presenting the Interim Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha, Goyal said that the average rate of inflation between 2009-14 was 10.1 …

SRINAGAR Nine drug peddlers were arrested in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday, police said. “Nine persons identified as Ishrat Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Kabir Mir resident of Adipora Sopore, Shabir Ahmad Shalla son of Farooq Ahmad Shalla resident of Shalimar Colony, Azad Ahmad Mir, Basharat …

NEW DELHI Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced the “Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Mandhan”, a scheme to provide an assured monthly pension of Rs 3,000 per month for workers in the unorganised sector who earn up to Rs 15,000 per month. While presenting the Interim Budget for 2019-20 in …

NEW DELHI Following are the key highlights of the interim Budget 2019-20 presented by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in the Lok Sabha Friday:  – Income up to Rs 5 lakh exempted from income tax – Standard Deduction raised to Rs 50,000 from Rs 40,000 – Direct tax proposals to provide Rs 23,000 cr relief to 3 …

KABUL US President Donald Trump is serious about getting out of Afghanistan, the Taliban told AFP Friday, outlining the “Islamic system” comprising “all Afghans” that the group says it hopes to establish under any peace deal. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid spoke to AFP via WhatsApp a day after the US …

NEW DELHI The Congress on Friday dubbed the Interim Budget as the “BJP manifesto”, saying the entire exercise was aimed at wooing voters for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls without providing a report card of the Modi governments performance. “Today’s budget is BJP’s election manifesto. This is nothing but trying …

SRINAGAR For once the two mainstream rivals, Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah on Friday found common cause with senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq demanding the opening of the Kargil-Skardu route. Scores of people in Kargil town of Ladakh region today took out a march called by the ‘Open Kargil-Skardu movement’ demanding opening of the route between Kargil town and Skardu, which …

SRINAGAR Three persons died after an avalanche hit Pahalgam on Friday. The Anantnag Police rescue team had managed to retrieve all three of them from the site of the avalanche. But, two out of the three persons were declared brought dead at the Pahalgam Civil hospital and the third person, …

SRINAGAR Jammu & Kashmir Power Development Department (PDD) today launched Android Mobile App for facilitating online electricity bill payment and other consumer-oriented services under the Billsahuliyat initiative of J&K Power Development Department. BillSahuliyat Go Android Mobile App provides an option for consumers to pay through any debit or credit card, …