Union Budget 2025-26: Gyan Bharatam Mission launched for conserving India’s manuscript heritage.

[ad_1] In her budget speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about conserving India’s manuscript heritage, on February 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Union Budget 2025-26 announced a special mission for the survey, documentation, and conservation of India’s manuscript heritage. Launched as the ‘Gyan Bharatam Mission’, it intends to cover more than one crore…

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Budget proposes Maritime Development Fund with ₹25,000-crore corpus

[ad_1] Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday (February 1, 2025) made some significant proposals for promoting indigenous ship building as also acquisition of Indian-flagged ships. Among them, the Budget has proposed the setting up of a Maritime Development Fund (MDF) to…

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Nirmala Sitharaman counters Opposition’s charges on Budget, calls it ‘a whole of nation’ approach

[ad_1] Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament in New Delhi on July 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI Countering the Opposition’s charges that the Union Budget had ignored the interests of many States and reduced allocations for social sectors like health,…

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