42% Indians hesitant to take third dose of COVID19 vaccine: Survey

A survey has found that four in ten people are hesitant to get inoculated with the precaution dose as COVID19...

‘No FIR for seven days, clean chit in 24 hours’: Patna shelter home sexual abuse case gets murkier

Accusations of sexual abuse by a 19-year-old former resident of a government-run shelter house for orphased girls in Gaighat area...

Budget cuts for Dalit women, drop in allocation for SC & ST education: National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights

Dissecting the allocation for schemes for SC/ST community, NDHCR stated that the proportion of targeted schemes is 37.79% for SC...

Health Budget 2022 “falls flat”, share of health in total budget drops to 2.26%: Jan Swasthya Abhiyan

Public health experts have demanded an increase in the health outlay. They claim the budget has failed to allocate sufficient...

MGNREGA budget slashed to Rs 73,000 cr; pending liabilities of Rs 18,350 cr; programme can provide only 16 days work, say activists

Against the revised estimate of Rs 98,000 crore for MGNREGA in 2021-22, the Union Budget 2022-23 has allocated Rs 73,000...

Health sector gets Rs 86,606 crore in Budget 2022; public health experts say “not enough”

The Budget Estimate 2022-23 has allocated Rs 86,606 crore to the health sector, which is a “negligible” increase as compared...

With an increased allocation to education, Budget 2022 focuses on e-learning, but will it bridge the digital divide?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government will launch a digital university and increase the ‘One Class One TV...

Union Budget 2022: Here’s what the budget has to offer rural India

PM-KISAN, crop insurance, drones for digitisation of land records, MGNREGA, rural drinking water scheme, accessible banking facilities, digital learning programmes...

Budget 2022: Focus on e-services in rural areas, optical fibres in all villages by 2025

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that contracts for laying optical fibres in all villages will be awarded under ‘Bharat Net...

Budget 2022: No changes in personal income tax slabs, GST ‘buoyant’ despite COVID19 pandemic

The Finance Minister also proposed a reduction in corporate surcharge and said that the transfer of any virtual digital asset...