Chandigarh: A budget of one lakh 68 thousand 15 crore was presented for the financial year 2021-22 in the Punjab Legislative Assembly today, in which a provision has been made to waive loans of Rs. Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal has also announced to increase the pension of the elderly from Rs 750 to Rs 1,500 a month while presenting the budget of 2021-22 in the Vidhan Sabha.
Along with this, he has also proposed to increase the amount given under the Shagun scheme from Rs 21 thousand to Rs 51,000. Badal said that in the next phase of crop loan waiver scheme, the state government will waive crop loans of 1.13 lakh farmers for Rs. 1,186 crore and landless farmers for Rs. 526 crore. This is the last budget of the current tenure of the Amarinder Singh government of the state. Assembly elections are proposed in the state in the early months of next year.
Indian nationals have been advised against travelling to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait via the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi announced Monday.
The Indian mission in its tweets, stated that due to Covid-19-enforced restrictions on incoming passengers, it would not be possible for Indian nationals to transit via Dubai and Abu Dhabi to neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Hence, all travellers, who are stranded in the UAE, are advised to consider their return to India and make further travel plans only after restrictions in the final destination countries are lifted, the advisory stated.
Since December 2020, at least 600 Indians, who wanted to travel to Saudi Arabia, are stranded in the UAE, according to an Indian Consulate in Dubai official. The official said: “Due to the fast-evolving international travel protocols, the missions strongly advise all travellers to avoid going to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait using transit routes to avoid the inconvenience of bei
Bengaluru: US multinational technology major Amazon India today announced the expansion of Amazon Food, its food delivery service across Bengaluru. As part of this, Customers can order food from popular and hygiene-certified restaurants and cloud kitchens around them with convenient doorstep delivery.
Notably, Amazon Food is now available across 62 pin-codes covering key localities like Whitefield, HSR, Sarjapur, Koramangala, Indiranagar, MG Road, Jayanagar, JP Nagar, Frazer Town, Malleshwaram, Rajajinagar, Vijayanagar and many more.
Prime members get free delivery on all their orders, while other customers can pay a nominal delivery fee of Rs 19 for their orders from Amazon Food. As a limited period offer, packaging fees is waived off for all customers. They can enjoy amazing offers from restaurants along with Amazon Pay cashbacks.
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Patna: On Saturday evening, unknown criminals indiscriminately attacked the most wanted Rakesh Jha in Bairagania town, adjacent to Nepal of Sitamarhi district of Bihar. The shootout has seriously injured him. After the incident, he was immediately taken to the local hospital, where he lost his life. After the incident, the people of Bairgania town are in a panic.
The police reached the spot after getting information about the incident and have started investigating the case. At the same time, there is a continuous raid to arrest the culprits. According to the information received, the deceased Rakesh Jha was a notorious criminal and was a resident of Bengahi village of Bairgania police station area. Yesterday evening, he came to some work in Bairgania. Meanwhile, when he reached the Raja Hotel, the bike-ridden criminals fired on Rakesh. During the firing, Ramesh was shot in the hand. In such a situation, he started running to save his life, but the criminals chased and continued fir