ED HAS DONE WHAT VOTERS COULDN’T; UNITED OPPN: PM BUDGET

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Moni Sharma

New Delhi: The Budget Session of Parliament was riveted with heating exchanges on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a scathing attack on the Opposition and the Congress as he picked apart the UPA rule.

Replying to the Motion of Thanks on President’s address, PM Modi trained guns on the Congress, recalling the scams that were unearthed during UPA rule between 2004 and 2014. PM Modi had also praised the ‘Digital India’ initiative reminding of tough times in nation over technological usage. He also said that the country is extremely confident at the global level.

Corruption, Congress, development and more....,Prime Minister Narendra Modi replies to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address in the Parliament

Adani row: LoP calls Modi ‘Mauni Baba’

Leader of Opposition and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday called PM Modi ‘Mouni Baba’ over his silence on the allegations of financial fraud on Gautam Adani.

Dhankhar pulls up Kharge for remarks

In response to LoP Kharge’s remark, RS Speaker Jagdeep Dhankhar said, “It does not suit your stature. You cannot treat institutions with that kind of observation.”

3 Kids Charred To Death As Hut Catches Fire

Mukesh Mathrani

Barmer: Three kids were alive as the Hut in which they were playing caught fire. Incident has been reported from Nagana police station area in Barmer. At the time of incident nobody in the family available there, police said.

Narpatdan Charan, SHO at Nagana police station area said that instead of moving in right direction to get out from hut after fire, trio went in wrong direction and burnt alive.

‘Operation Dost’ INDIA SENDS 4 PLANES, 1,00,000 KG RELIEF AID

U nder ‘Operation Dost’, India has sent four C-17 planeloads of relief material, medicines, equipment and personnel, weighing over 108 tons (97,000 kg) to Turkey. The planes to Turkey include 99 medical specialists which will set up a 30-bed medical facility in field operation conditions.

Over 100 NDRF personnel, with equipment, vehicles and dog squads are headed to Turkey. Equipment also includes hand and power tools, lighting equipment, airlifting bags, chainsaw, angle cutters, rotarv rescue saw, victim location equipment, life detectors, etc. One Indian missing, 10 stuck in remote parts of Turkey, said MEA.

PM MODI’S SPEECH FROM PARL

 President Droupadi Murmu guided the people of the country in her visionary speech. Her presence as the Head of the Republic is historic as well as inspiring for women.

 Some leaders displayed hatred against the Scheduled Tribes. The Opposition had alleged that the President read a speech prepared by the Centre.

 Some can’t accept India’s achievements. In the last 9 years, India has become home to 90,000 start-ups. It’s the third biggest in terms of start-ups. World sees prosperity in India’s growth.

 Several countries are suffering from instability due to war, others are facing inflation, unemployment; amid difficult times, India became the fifth-largest economy

 Some people have a craze of Harvard studies. In the past, an important study was undertaken at Harvard, titled the rise and decline of India’s Congress party.

 Congress’s rule was a decade of corruption and terror, while the world was busy enhancing its technology, the UPA-II government was busy with scams like 2G.

 I had already unfurled tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk in January 1992 despite threat from terrorists, and without security

 Some people are destroying India for their families. 140 crore people of India are Modi’s safety armour.

WE WILL ADVANCE SECURITY, ECONOMIC RELATIONS, SAYS ISRAELI PM AFTER TALK WITH PM MODI

NDRF personnel from India conduct a rescue operation in Gaziantep on Wednesday.

RBI hikes repo rate by 25 bps to 6.5%

First India bureau Mumbai: Get ready to shell out more for your EMI as Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday hiked the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.5%. The repo hike will make retail loans such as home, auto, and personal loans and others costlier, and borrowers will have to be ready for higher monthly EMIs or tenor extensions, or both.

Governor Shaktikanta Das announced the decision of monetary policy committee which was passed by a majority of 4 of the 6 members. This was 1st Monetary Policy Statement of the year.

The MPC will continue to maintain strong vigil on the evolving inflation outlook so as to ensure that it remains within the tolerance band and progressively aligns with the target. The central bank has refrained from giving forward guidance in the current tightening cycle because it can become counter-productive.

—Shaktikanta Das, RBI Governor