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Covid-19: A pandemic the world suffers

Covid-19, the pandemic disease that started in China during Nov-Dec, 2019 has eventually got into its fold the entire world, killing lacs of people world over, including over 20000 so far in India. The pandemic is now well over 6 months old. But the would community is still struggling to decipher what exactly the disease is, how it spreads and how to control it and treat it. Scientists across the world are working day in and day out to work out a vaccine for the disease, but the wait appears unending. Though, the race for same continues. More than a lac people have died of Covid-19 so far in USA itself, whereas China, where this all started, has seen around 4500 deaths so far. The Chinese virus, that's how they call it, has taken the entire world into a complete spin. The world has witnessed the kind of socio-economic problems along with the medical problems in last few months, that we could never think of. Along with the scare of the pandemic came the lock-downs, that resulted ...
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Salient Features of Direct Tax Proposals in Union Budget 2017 The Hon’ble Finance Minister of India laid the Union Budget 2017 before the Parliament on 01.02.2017. The salient features of Direct Tax proposals are as under:  I.          Personal Income Tax: 1.       Personal income tax for people with income in the slab of 2.5 lakh to 5 lakh to be    reduced to 5% instead of 10%. This will reduce their tax liability to half while all other tax payers above this slab will also be benefited in terms of lesser tax of Rs.12,500 per individual (revenue loss of Rs.15,500 crores).             2.         Surcharge of 10% to be levied on individuals with income between Rs.50 lakhs to Rs.1 crore (revenue gain of Rs.2,700 crore). II.          Affordable Housing: 1.     ...
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High Speed Travel in Indian Railways

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High Speed Travel in Indian Railways    Indian Railways, since its inception in 1853, has played a significant role in the development of India. Indian Railways today has the largest passenger operation in the world carrying over 23 million passengers every day or about seven billion passengers annually which is equivalent to the world’s population. The focus has been to provide a safe and affordable means of transport to the teeming millions. Need to Modernize        Indian Railways over the years has taken many steps for modernization and technology upgradation. On the speed front Indian Railways is now running trains like Gatiman Express with maximum speed of 160 kmph. However the progress on high speed has not been much and most of passenger carrying trains and Goods trains have been running on low average running speed. Countries like Japan, China, France, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, Turkey, South Korea and ...
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Make in India

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Make in India   Objective 1.     To facilitate Job Creation and Skill enhancement in 25 sectors of Indian economy. 2.     To manufacture high quality products in India with minimising the impact on the environment. 3.     To attract capital and technological investment in India. 4.     To bring down the imports of India, especially the military imports. Launch & Initiatives taken          1.     Launched by Prime Minister   Narendra Modi   on 25 September 2014 to encourage                    multi-national , as well as national companies to manufacture their products in   India . 2.     Under the initiative, brochures on the 25 sectors and a web portal were released. 3.     Before the initiative was launched, foreign equity caps in various sector...
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