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World Cancer Day 2025: Try These Natural Sources Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
World Cancer Day 2025: This article explores various natural sources of anti-cancer drugs, their mechanisms, and how they could contribute to preventing or treating cancer.
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Upto 50% Subsidy For Setting Up Solar-Powered Food Processing Units In UP
In an attempt to boost the food processing sector in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has decided to provide up to 50 per cent subsidy to interested investors, according to a government statement.
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Fuel Price Cut To LPG Subsidy: 5 Announcements Made By Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made several announcements today, including a sharp cut in central excise duty on fuel prices. The announcements come as retail inflation surged to an eight-year high in April, driven by rising fuel and food prices
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Subsidy Bill Nears Rs 6 Lakh Crore In Financial Year 2021
The government's subsidies on food, fertilisers, LPG and kerosene are pegged at Rs 5.96 lakh crore in the current fiscal, over 2.5-fold jump from the initial budget estimates as the Centre distributed additional foodgrains free of cost to help poor mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Roti At Rs 3, Non-Veg Buffet At Rs 700: Parliament Canteen Sheds Subsidy
After years of hiccups in efforts to end the subsidy at the parliament canteen which offered dishes like Hyderabad Mutton Biryani at Rs 65 and boiled vegetables at Rs 12, those entrusted with the unappetising task have prevailed.
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Subsidy To MPs For Food Served In Parliament Canteens Ends: Lok Sabha Speaker
Food served in Parliament canteens for MPs and others will become more expensive as a subsidy given for it has been stopped, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said today.
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Coronavirus - Man, Dogs Sharing Spilt Milk In Agra Shows Lockdown Desperation
A man and a pack of stray dogs are seen in a scramble for milk spilt on a road in Agra in stomach-churning visuals that speak volumes on the desperation of the country's poorest during the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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MPs Agree To End Parliament Canteen Subsidy (For Second Time Since 2016)
Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to give up the decades-old subsidy on food sold at the parliament canteen, BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy announced on Thursday. The decision, however, seemed exactly similar to one announced in 2016.
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Parliament Gets Rs 16.4 Crore Bill For Canteens Run By Railways
Northern Railway has demanded Rs 16.43 crore from the Lok Sabha secretariat for running four canteens in Parliament -- where food prices are significantly low -- during 2017-18, an RTI query has revealed.
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MCD Polls: To Counter AAP Offer, What Congress, BJP Think Will Woo Voters
With the MCD polls less than four weeks away, political parties are ready with their lists of promises, subsidies and freebies. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will abolish the residential house tax and waive arrears if voted to power in the Capital's civic bodies. He added that industrial and commerc...
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Why are Drought-Affected States not Lifting Sufficient Food Grain: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from 13 drought-affected states as to why they were not lifting enough food grain to made available at subsidised rates to the priority and vulnerable sections of the people in affected areas.
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National Food Security Law Implemented Across India: Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan
Implementation of National Food Security law, entailing an annual subsidy of over Rs 1.4 lakh crore, has covered the entire nation from this month with two large states Kerala and Tamil Nadu coming on board, the government said today.
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Food Prices In Parliament Canteen May Be Hiked Again
The prices of eatables in Parliament canteen may again go up, as revision of rates of food items and subsidy given to catering units are again on the table of a House panel.
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Better Targeting Of Kerosene Subsidy Is Government's Next Agenda: Arun Jaitley
After the initial experiment in food and fertiliser, better targeting of kerosene subsidy is next on government agenda to plug diversion and black marketing of the fuel, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
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76 Fictitious, 16 Dead Beneficiaries On Foodgrain List In Punjab Village
Severe anomalies are present in the Public Distribution System at a village in Punjab's Sangrur district, NDTV has found. The Aam Aadmi Party has been demanding an investigation into what it has dubbed the foodgrain scam.
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World Cancer Day 2025: Try These Natural Sources Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
World Cancer Day 2025: This article explores various natural sources of anti-cancer drugs, their mechanisms, and how they could contribute to preventing or treating cancer.
-
Upto 50% Subsidy For Setting Up Solar-Powered Food Processing Units In UP
In an attempt to boost the food processing sector in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has decided to provide up to 50 per cent subsidy to interested investors, according to a government statement.
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Fuel Price Cut To LPG Subsidy: 5 Announcements Made By Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made several announcements today, including a sharp cut in central excise duty on fuel prices. The announcements come as retail inflation surged to an eight-year high in April, driven by rising fuel and food prices
-
Subsidy Bill Nears Rs 6 Lakh Crore In Financial Year 2021
The government's subsidies on food, fertilisers, LPG and kerosene are pegged at Rs 5.96 lakh crore in the current fiscal, over 2.5-fold jump from the initial budget estimates as the Centre distributed additional foodgrains free of cost to help poor mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Roti At Rs 3, Non-Veg Buffet At Rs 700: Parliament Canteen Sheds Subsidy
After years of hiccups in efforts to end the subsidy at the parliament canteen which offered dishes like Hyderabad Mutton Biryani at Rs 65 and boiled vegetables at Rs 12, those entrusted with the unappetising task have prevailed.
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Subsidy To MPs For Food Served In Parliament Canteens Ends: Lok Sabha Speaker
Food served in Parliament canteens for MPs and others will become more expensive as a subsidy given for it has been stopped, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said today.
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Coronavirus - Man, Dogs Sharing Spilt Milk In Agra Shows Lockdown Desperation
A man and a pack of stray dogs are seen in a scramble for milk spilt on a road in Agra in stomach-churning visuals that speak volumes on the desperation of the country's poorest during the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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MPs Agree To End Parliament Canteen Subsidy (For Second Time Since 2016)
Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to give up the decades-old subsidy on food sold at the parliament canteen, BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy announced on Thursday. The decision, however, seemed exactly similar to one announced in 2016.
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Parliament Gets Rs 16.4 Crore Bill For Canteens Run By Railways
Northern Railway has demanded Rs 16.43 crore from the Lok Sabha secretariat for running four canteens in Parliament -- where food prices are significantly low -- during 2017-18, an RTI query has revealed.
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MCD Polls: To Counter AAP Offer, What Congress, BJP Think Will Woo Voters
With the MCD polls less than four weeks away, political parties are ready with their lists of promises, subsidies and freebies. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will abolish the residential house tax and waive arrears if voted to power in the Capital's civic bodies. He added that industrial and commerc...
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Why are Drought-Affected States not Lifting Sufficient Food Grain: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from 13 drought-affected states as to why they were not lifting enough food grain to made available at subsidised rates to the priority and vulnerable sections of the people in affected areas.
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National Food Security Law Implemented Across India: Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan
Implementation of National Food Security law, entailing an annual subsidy of over Rs 1.4 lakh crore, has covered the entire nation from this month with two large states Kerala and Tamil Nadu coming on board, the government said today.
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Food Prices In Parliament Canteen May Be Hiked Again
The prices of eatables in Parliament canteen may again go up, as revision of rates of food items and subsidy given to catering units are again on the table of a House panel.
-
Better Targeting Of Kerosene Subsidy Is Government's Next Agenda: Arun Jaitley
After the initial experiment in food and fertiliser, better targeting of kerosene subsidy is next on government agenda to plug diversion and black marketing of the fuel, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
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76 Fictitious, 16 Dead Beneficiaries On Foodgrain List In Punjab Village
Severe anomalies are present in the Public Distribution System at a village in Punjab's Sangrur district, NDTV has found. The Aam Aadmi Party has been demanding an investigation into what it has dubbed the foodgrain scam.
