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sanitation, is set to achieve the target of 2.5% of GDP by 2024-205 even as the centre’s allocation failed to reach 0.8% of GDP. As states managed to push healthcare expenditure to 1.58% of GDP last year, the combined effort of states and Centre added up to 2.13% of GDP. Public healthcare expenditure includes allocation of health and family welfare, Ayush, research and water supply and sanitation. By this calculation, the centre's expenditure was only 0.58% of GDP and 48% of this was spent on water and sanitation. Allocation for family welfare has gone down to 0.26% of GDP lower than the 2018-19 budget where the centre spent 0.28% of GDP.

investment in agricultural infrastructure, easing loan terms, and implementing employee-centric production-linked incentive schemes were some of the key suggestions made by stakeholders from the agricultural sector and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as part of the pre-budget consultations with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday. The Agriculture Industry sought a new agriculture policy with focus on investment on Agriculture infrastructure, rationalisation of subsidy, increased investment in allied agri based food processing Industry and a substantial hike in allocation for agriculture research and innovation. The stakeholders asked to boost farm exports and create district hubs to support agriculture exports, sought launch of national Goat and Sheep Mission and increased the budget allocation for the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to ₹800 crore from ₹80 crore. «All the stakeholders unanimously sought rationalisation of fertilizer subsidy and using the direct benefit transfer route to plug any leakage,» said a person aware of the meeting proceedings. They also asked the government to revise the retail price of urea, which has remained unchanged since 2018, and to incentivise the use of bio-fertilisers and foliar fertilisers.

vulnerability was brought to light by a cybersecurity expert who demonstrated the flaw using flying bats as an example. Notably, these virtual objects would persist in the user’s space even after Safari was closed.Reportedly, Apple has implemented stringent security measures to control what can enter a user’s personal space within Vision Pro.

Tata Motors vs Bajaj Auto: Leading Indian auto majors Tata Motors and Bajaj Auto have received bullish upgrades on their respective stocks from domestic brokerage firms after investors recently renewed their buying interest in the last few sessions. The two companies face fresh competition from Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) and soon-to-be-listed Hyundai Motor India.

There are many companies developing AI models. But one company is integral to almost every major artificial intelligence project: Nvidia, since it has a monopoly on the computer chips required to run the intensive calculations required for AI operations. During every gold rush in history, the really smart investors have put their money into picks, shovels, and mining equipment instead of trying their luck digging for gold.

Signify, the global leader in lighting, today unveiled 'NatureConnect', a groundbreaking product designed to bring the benefits of natural light indoors, enhancing the well-being of its users. NatureConnect follows biophilic design principles, imitating the natural sunlight cycle to boost circadian rhythm, mood, focus, and sleep quality. Citing research that people spend 90% of their overall time indoors, the Eindhoven headquartered company says NatureConnect addresses this need by utilizing elements of nature in interior spaces to create healthy, engaging, and inspiring environments with a proven biophilic design principle.

Praveen Chakravarty on Friday apologised for his post on social media platform X, criticising Karnataka Congress government's decision to hire the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to help with suggestions to boost state revenue. Chakravarty, chairman of Professionals' Congress & Data Analytics, had faced backlash from his party after his dig at the government was echoed by the opposition BJP. Posting a retraction on X, Chakravarty said his comments reflected his private opinion, and weren’t intended to be a criticism of the Karnataka government. “I posted my private opinion on the broader culture of outsourcing core political & policy functions to outside consultants with no ‘skin in the game.’ It’s an issue that is debated widely in research circles & my comment was purely academic…I have spoken with & expressed my apologies for causing inadvertent harm to the leadership in Karnataka,” he wrote. The Siddaramaiah-regime roped in the BCG earlier this week, under pressure to find funding to fulfil its guarantee programmes, which will cost the state around Rs 52,000 crore this fiscal year. The government has already hiked taxes on fuel, liquor, and property, and is said to be considering further rate revisions to mobilise revenue. The guarantee programmes themselves have come under fire after the party managed to win just nine out of 28 seats in the state in the recent general elections.

GTRI on Friday suggested a host of reforms like increasing GST exemption limit for firms with up to Rs 1.5 crore turnover, reducing the number of slabs, and doing away with state-wise registration to make GST more efficient, business-friendly, and contributing to economic growth. As the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) celebrates its 7th anniversary, having launched on July 1, 2017, it has become the world's largest platform for indirect taxes with over 1.46 crore registrations, Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said. In FY24, GST collections reached Rs 20.18 lakh crore (USD 243.13 billion), with 29.85 per cent from imports, 26.92 per cent from inter-state supplies, and 43.23 per cent from within-state supplies. The dominance of within-state supplies highlights the need to simplify GST rules to promote inter-state trade, the global trade research body said.

Instagram’s 2010 launch flooded the zone with a whole genre of #travel photos. You know the look: oversaturated images with crowds cropped out that have made places from Patagonia to Iceland yawn-inducingly familiar. And with 39% of us now using social media for trip inspiration, according to the 2024 American Express Global Travel Trends Report, our feeds have become vacation-themed echo chambers.

The Nifty future closed positive, with gains of 0.40% at 23597 levels on Thursday. The India VIX was down by 2.68% from 13.71 to 13.34 levels.

«An expectation of a growth-focused budget is aiding sentiments and is likely to lead to sector-specific action,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal.

Sensex rose 141.34 points to close at 77,478.93, while the Nifty 50 settled 51.00 points, or 0.22%, higher at 23,567.00.Also Read: Indian stock market: 10 key things that changed for market overnight - Gift Nifty, BoE policy to Accenture Q3 resultsNifty 50 formed a small negative candle on the daily chart that placed beside the long negative candle of Wednesday. “Technically, this pattern indicates a doji type candle pattern, which doesn't have any significant predictive value, as the market is presently showing a broader sideways range movement.

₹1,757.50 hit on 3 July last year, following the merger of mortgage lender HDFC with the bank. The anticipation among domestic investors is of the so-called foreign room of the stock widening to 25% from March quarter’s 24.94%.Foreign room refers to the proportion of shares still available to foreign investors relative to the foreign ownership limit, which is 74%.

Tech giant Nvidia is now worth over $3.2 trillion, with its dominance as a chipmaker making it the poster child of the artificial intelligence boom

anxiety and high stress among individuals. This has been reported by USA Today.

Climate change is driving dangerous heat waves across the Northern Hemisphere this week and will continue to deliver dangerous weather for decades to come, research shows. «It is a worldwide heat wave that we are now suffering. That puts the heat under our decisions,» said Christiana Figueres, a former U.N. climate agency chief. Here's how climate change is pushing heat to new extremes.

The recent conflict between CertiK and Kraken has brought to light critical issues, which center around a security bug exploit that resulted in the unauthorized withdrawal of approximately $3 million from Kraken’s treasury by a research team from CertiK.

According to Winterflood Securities' May roundup, buybacks across the investment trust sector hit £3bn, a 129% increase on the equivalent period in 2023. SMT alone bought back £582m between January and May, «considerably more» than any other trust over the period, head of research Emma Bird commented. Investment trust mergers surpass annual record in five months In comparison, the second highest total was £159m from Smithson Investment with Nick Train's Finsbury Growth & Income redeeming £142m shares in third place. May was a standout month on this metric with buyback volumes up...

₹72,000, as US participants returned from the Juneteenth holiday with a buying sentiment. This was driven by weak retail sales data and lower inflation figures.

New York is launching a program offering homeowners up to $14,000 in total rebates for energy-efficiency upgrades to their property, and more states are expected to follow suit by summer's end.

₹ 2.2 trillion in at least six years. A Mint analysis of 132 companies whose data for 2023-24 was available shows a steady increase in dividend payout ratios over the past six years. During the fiscal year, the payout ratio reached a little over 59%, exceeding the previous five-year average of 54.8%.