Interim Union Budget presented; Proposal for option to use Aadhar in place of PAN card
Nirmala Sitharaman presented her first budget as Finance Minister today.
The minister proposed increased fuel price by Rs. 2 per litre with increase in excise duty and cess.
She proposed creation of social stock exchange to help NGOs receive funding.
Government allocated Rs. 70,000 crore for public sector bank recapitalisation.
Vaiko sentenced to 1 year in prison in a sedition case
Tamil Nadu politician and MDMK party leader V Gopalasway or better known as Vaiko was sentence to 1-year prison in Chennai today.
He was found guilty under section 124 A (sedition) for his speech where he said that India will not remain a country if the war against LTTE in Sri Lanka is not stopoped.
Earlier in the week, he was nominated by DMK alliance for Rajya Sabha.
SC upholds conviction of 12 accused in Haren Pandya murder case
The top court set aside a Gujarat High Court judgement acquitting all the accused.
He was a home minister of Gujarat government who was shot dead on March 26th, 2003.
A trial court had found the accused guilty; however, the high court found the investigation botched and acquitted the accused.
CBI had challenged the High Court verdict and said that Pandya was murdered to avenge the 2002 communal riots in the state
