Budgeting for agriculture and food
The Union Budget 2023-24 was presented against the backdrop of some critical geopolitical developments and was the last full budget before the next general elections. Signicantly, 2023 is also the year
Budget
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Bihars plan size too ambitious
New Delhi: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar may be making a strong pitch for his party
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AISMK: Top priority for agriculture
Chennai: Actor-politician R. Sarath Kumar
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Prices of essentials to get priority in budget: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday afternoon said due attention will be given to the next national budget for protecting homegrown industries and keeping prices of essentials within the purchasing capacity of common people. Sheikh Hasina will focus on the protection of the homegrown industries to make them able to export their products after fulfilling local demands.
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Is there a real problem of food security?
THE long-term economic potential of Bangladesh cannot be realised unless the people feel confident about the first item on most people
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Consider climate change issue while preparing budget
Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need to consider the impacts of climate change while preparing the national budget. The seminar titled 'Climate change: Its impact on health and environment' was organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa) at Dhaka Reporters Unity auditorium.
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Subsidy Plan Seeks to Cut Malaria Drug Cost
A new campaign to save lives and prevent drug resistance by driving the price of the best malaria medicine down to as little as 20 cents was announced Friday by international health agencies and European governments. The subsidy program, unveiled in Norway, will have an initial budget of $225 million and will be run by a new partnership called the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria.
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Govt asked to give incentives to pharma industry
The president of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) on Friday said the government should encourage the domestic pharmaceutical industry in order to ensure availability of good quality medicines to the masses at affordable prices.
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100-day job programme now under redesign to detect weaknesses
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has said the government is redesigning the 100-day employment generation programme to identify its weaknesses.
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Next budget will be pro-poor
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque hoped that the next budget would be pro-people, pro-rural and pro-marginalised. He was speaking as chief guest at a roundtable discussion titled 'Budget and Social Safety Net Programmes: Perspective of Marginalized'.
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Saving Vidarbha
The Maharashtra government is working overtime trying to plug gaps in the Rs 60,000-crore loan waiver for farmers announced in the Union budget. As things stand now, Vidarbha, the state's worst-hit region which has seen nearly three suicides a day for the last two years, will benefit the least