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<updated>2026-07-21T21:49:09+00:00</updated>
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<title>#Budget2017: Political Funding Reform Starts, Income Tax Halved, Rural Allocation Up 24%</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented a budget that appeared to be a salve for the tribulations of demonetisation: He hiked outlays for the world’s largest employment generation scheme]]></summary>
<updated>2017-02-01T14:11:31+00:00</updated>
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<title>#Notebandi Will Cut GDP Growth By 0.25%-0.5%: Economic Survey</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In its first admission, the government has accepted that the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016]]></summary>
<updated>2017-02-01T09:51:50+00:00</updated>
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<title>#Budget2017: India Lags Green Energy Targets, As World Heats Up</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The world’s fourth-largest producer of greenhouse gases now warming the world at an unprecedented pace, India–which currently is failing to meet its targets or even transfer to industry a clean-energy tax]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-31T09:32:20+00:00</updated>
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<title>#Elections2017: Punjab’s Populist Policies Lead To Economic Slowdown, Rising   Joblessness</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The growth of its industries, services and overall economy is 5.9%, which lags the 

national average of 7.6%, the unemployment rate among its youth is 16.6% while the]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-31T07:44:56+00:00</updated>
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<title>Jaitley’s Challenges: Struggling Economy, Farms, Scarce Jobs And #Notebandi Impact</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to offer additional tax breaks to the salaried 

class, increase government spending to boost flagging demand and prepare the ground]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-31T07:42:58+00:00</updated>
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<title>Indian Women Most Prone To Death By Fire</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Indian women aged between 15 and 50 are most prone to fire-related deaths compared to women in any other country–18 times more than Pakistani women and 38 times]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-28T11:51:25+00:00</updated>
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<title>Why India’s Canals Could Help Fast-Forward Its Solar-Energy Plans</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mehsana (Gujarat): As far as the eye can see, line after line of solar panels stretch out in the midday sun beating down on the village of Chandrasan here in this eastern Gujarat district, which squeezes in 80 more people per sq km than India]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-28T11:10:57+00:00</updated>
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<title>Down To The District: The Health Of 5 States Going To Polls</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past Indian general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-27T12:51:11+00:00</updated>
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<title>Education Budget: The School Education Crisis And Opportunity</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The 2017-18 budget is an opportunity for the government to concentrate on improving school education for over 260.5 million children who enrolled in elementary and secondary schoo]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-25T11:41:28+00:00</updated>
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<title>1 Taxpayer Owes 11% of India’s Individual Income Tax (2014-15)</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[An unnamed taxpayer owed the government Rs 21,870 crore for the assessment year 2014-15, which was 11% of income tax to be paid by all Indians, according to 2016 data, the latest available, from the Income Tax department.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-24T10:23:17+00:00</updated>
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<title>#Notebandi Frontlines: Farm To Loom, Textiles–Employer Of 25 Million–Totter</title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mumbai, Bhiwandi & Ahmedabad: Dilapidated, dirty and depressed, a town that was once called the Manchester of Asia smells of textile starch, thinners, garbage and sewage.]]></summary>
<updated>2017-01-23T13:00:04+00:00</updated>
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