The North News Chandigarh, February 2 An Indian Air Force helicopter undertook an urgent medical evacuation of an 85-year-old woman suffering paralysis from a village in Himachal Pradesh located at a height of 9,000 feet after snowfall had blocked all roads. The life-saving mission was completed in snowfall and low visibility, the IAF said in […]
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The North News New Delhi, February 2 Delhi woke up to dense fog and slightly improved air quality on Monday morning, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) settling in the ‘moderate’ category. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), visibility dropped to 100 metres at both Palam and Safdarjung in the early hours. The […]
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The North News Srinagar, February 2 A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shook Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district early Monday, officials said. The tremor occurred at 5.35 am, they said, adding that the Pattan area was the epicenter. There were no reports of any damage due to the earthquake so far, the officials said.
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The North News New Delhi, February 1 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday presented a Rs 53.47 lakh crore Budget for 2026-27, up 7.7 per cent from the current financial year ending March 31. As per the Revised Estimate, the size of the Budget for the current fiscal is Rs 49.64 lakh crore, lower from […]
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The North News New Delhi, February 1 India on Sunday set aside Rs 7,84,678 crore as defence outlay for 2026-27 in a steep hike of 15 per cent over last year’s allocation of Rs 6.81 lakh crore, with its military majorly focusing on boosting combat prowess in the face of increasing security challenges from China […]
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The North News New Delhi, February 1 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that the Income Tax Act, 2025 will be implemented from April 1 and rules and tax returns forms will be notified shortly. Beginning April 1, the Income Tax Act, 2025, will come into force replacing the six-decade-old tax law and the […]
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The North News New Delhi, February 1 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed to set up a Rs 10,000 crore fund to create champion small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to boost the economy. Presenting Union Budget 2026-27, she also proposed a scheme for container manufacturing to create globally competitive ecosystem. Also, mega textile parks […]
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The North News Raipur, January 31 Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said the Centre will soon introduce new agricultural laws to provide strong legal protection to farmers. He asserted that exploitation of farmers through fake seeds, spurious fertilisers and counterfeit pesticides will no longer be tolerated, and warned of […]
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The North News Mumbai, January 31 Sunetra Pawar, 62, the wife of late NCP chief Ajit Pawar, was on Saturday sworn in as Maharashtra’s first woman deputy Chief Minister at a ceremony in Mumbai. Following her husband, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s death in an air crash in Baramati on January 28, the Nationalist Congress […]
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The North News Chandigarh, January 31 A day before the Prime Minister’s visit to Punjab, the state BJP’s core committee on Saturday passed a resolution, expressing gratitude to Narendra Modi, saying his visit will further strengthen communal harmony in the state. Modi will visit Dera Ballan on the occasion of the 649th Guru Ravidas Jayanti […]
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