Budget Session 2020

Over 15.5 lakh cyber security incidents have been reported in the last two years and 11.58 lakh of them were recorded in 2020 alone, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill to raise the upper limit for permitting abortions from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks for "special categories of women" including rape survivors, victims of incest, minors and the differently-abled.

As many as 588 regular cases (RCs) were pending investigation for over a year by the CBI as on December 31, 2020, Parliament was informed today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the upcoming Union Budget was the next in a series of mini-budgets presented by Finance Minister Nimala Sitharaman in 2020. He also spelt out his priority of using the first Parliamentary session of the decade to chart out a bright future for India.

Alleging that seven years of the Narendra Modi government have "wrecked" the economy and high growth prospects, the Congress today said it is afraid that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present "dressed-up" revised estimates for 2020-21 in the upcoming Budget session of Parliament and attempt to build an attractive narrative for the coming...

A discussion on the Delhi violence will be held only after Holi, which is on March 10, Speaker Om Birla declared amid intense uproar in the Lok Sabha today. "You all have agreed to accept the chair's decision. The government is also ready for a discussion. This would be held after Holi, on the 11th," Om Birla said. The opposition has been demanding...

Senior BJP leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday announced that the party will boycott the customary tea party of the state government on the eve of the Budget session.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday set aside separate funds in its 2020-21 annual budget for the infrastructural development of police department, including construction of buildings, forensic labs and police modernisation.

Lok Sabha was adjourned on Tuesday till March 2 as the first part of the budget session ended.

The stock markets recovered the Budget-day losses in the first two sessions of the week, and continued to rise until trimming some of those gains only on Friday next.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan will make a statement on the government's preparedness against novel coronavirus which has claimed more than 636 lives in China and infected over 30,000 people. India has officially reported three confirmed cases of the infectious disease in Kerala.

Domestic stock markets started Wednesday's session on a choppy note after a gap-up opening, a day after benchmark indices recouped all of the losses registered on February 1 when the government presented its Budget in Parliament. The S&P BSE Sensex index rose as much as 208.64 points to touch 40,998.02 in morning, and the broader NSE Nifty benchmar...

Two days after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented budget in Lok Sabha, uproar is likely in parliament over Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register amid nationwide protests.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman outlined a multi-billion dollar package for farm and infrastructure spending in the budget for 2020-21, but the stimulus fell short of market expectations and stocks slumped during a special trading session on Saturday.

In the 2020 Budget session Government has announced handholding support to the auto component industry for technological upgradation, R&D support and strategy planning.

Over 15.5 lakh cyber security incidents have been reported in the last two years and 11.58 lakh of them were recorded in 2020 alone, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill to raise the upper limit for permitting abortions from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks for "special categories of women" including rape survivors, victims of incest, minors and the differently-abled.

As many as 588 regular cases (RCs) were pending investigation for over a year by the CBI as on December 31, 2020, Parliament was informed today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the upcoming Union Budget was the next in a series of mini-budgets presented by Finance Minister Nimala Sitharaman in 2020. He also spelt out his priority of using the first Parliamentary session of the decade to chart out a bright future for India.

Alleging that seven years of the Narendra Modi government have "wrecked" the economy and high growth prospects, the Congress today said it is afraid that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present "dressed-up" revised estimates for 2020-21 in the upcoming Budget session of Parliament and attempt to build an attractive narrative for the coming...

A discussion on the Delhi violence will be held only after Holi, which is on March 10, Speaker Om Birla declared amid intense uproar in the Lok Sabha today. "You all have agreed to accept the chair's decision. The government is also ready for a discussion. This would be held after Holi, on the 11th," Om Birla said. The opposition has been demanding...

Senior BJP leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday announced that the party will boycott the customary tea party of the state government on the eve of the Budget session.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday set aside separate funds in its 2020-21 annual budget for the infrastructural development of police department, including construction of buildings, forensic labs and police modernisation.

Lok Sabha was adjourned on Tuesday till March 2 as the first part of the budget session ended.

The stock markets recovered the Budget-day losses in the first two sessions of the week, and continued to rise until trimming some of those gains only on Friday next.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan will make a statement on the government's preparedness against novel coronavirus which has claimed more than 636 lives in China and infected over 30,000 people. India has officially reported three confirmed cases of the infectious disease in Kerala.

Domestic stock markets started Wednesday's session on a choppy note after a gap-up opening, a day after benchmark indices recouped all of the losses registered on February 1 when the government presented its Budget in Parliament. The S&P BSE Sensex index rose as much as 208.64 points to touch 40,998.02 in morning, and the broader NSE Nifty benchmar...

Two days after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented budget in Lok Sabha, uproar is likely in parliament over Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register amid nationwide protests.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman outlined a multi-billion dollar package for farm and infrastructure spending in the budget for 2020-21, but the stimulus fell short of market expectations and stocks slumped during a special trading session on Saturday.

In the 2020 Budget session Government has announced handholding support to the auto component industry for technological upgradation, R&D support and strategy planning.