Budget 2024 offers changes to the new tax regime, increasing the exemption limit. If your income is low, choose the new regime as the standard deduction is now Rs 75,000. For high-income earners with significant deductions, the old system may be preferable because of the exemptions available on various expenses.

Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2024 today in the Parliament. The budget focused on few important sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, and tertiary sectors. 

What will attract the middle class is that the government is trying to address a major concern – unemployment. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the Prime Minister's Package of five schemes and initiatives to address unemployment, skills and other opportunities for 4.1 crore youth over five years.

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday criticized Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget, saying it was aimed at appeasing BJP's allies and "cronies". Alleged that it has been copied from the Lok Sabha election manifesto of the Congress Party. Other Congress leaders also claimed that the budget was a copy.

Passengers travelling on number 22416 of Vande Bharat from Delhi to Varanasi observed and complained of water leaking from the roof of the train. A video is doing rounds on social media showing water dripping down the roof and the seats drenched. In the video, a woman could be heard saying, “Tell everyone in your college! Nobody should be travelling." X user posted/shared a video of the incident. According to a report in NDTV, several passengers complained about the leaking issue and slammed the Railways for the poor management. The Northern Railway took note of the incident and said that the leakage was due to "temporary blockage of pipes" and apologized for the inconvenience.

The latest fifth bridge collapse was reported from the Bheja police station area of Madhubani district, situated in the state’s northern end bordering Nepal. Tejashwi Yadav wrote on X, "Congratulations! Due to the double power of the double engine government in Bihar, only and only five bridges have collapsed in just nine days. The double engine NDA government of six parties, under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has sent auspicious and bright wishes of Mangalraj to the people of Bihar on the collapse of five bridges in nine days." "The self-proclaimed honest people are calling the thousands of crores of rupees being lost by the public due to the collapse of bridges as “courtesy” rather than “corruption”," he added. "Why don't the truthful and incorruptible leaders, certified by the world champion Godi media as those who distribute orange certificates of corruption to the Opposition and are number one in all the rankings of partisan journalism open their mouths on these good governance feats?" he said.

Maharashtra’s Deputy CM, Ajit Pawar, has announced a new program called "Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana" with a budget of Rs 46,000 crore. Under this program, eligible women aged 21–60 will receive Rs 1,500 per month starting in July. In addition, the "Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojana" will provide three free cooking gas cylinders annually to families of five.

The petitioner former sergeant Gopi Ram was enrolled in IAF as a regular combatant airman in the trade of radar operator, and on completion of training on Dec 10, 1964, joined Operational 43 Signal Unit. He actively participated in the India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971 and also received decorations/medals. He completed nine years of service on Dec 26, 1971, and was abruptly discharged on March 28, 1972. Almost 52 years after an IAF war veteran was "illegally" discharged after only nine years of service, disentitling him from pension, the Punjab and Haryana HC has held that such an order could not have been passed "to the detriment and disadvantage of a defence personnel". After hearing his plea, HC observed that no reasons had been cited in the order discharging the petitioner, and held that he was entitled to "benefit of completing 15 years of service for the purpose of pension alone". The court found the AFT order "laconic", and said: "His discharge order having been quashed, he would be entitled to full pension on completion of his full service on attaining the age of 58 years."

For this Jhunjhunu village, in Rajasthan’s Shekhawati region, the years can be divided as before and after Agnipath — the central ‘tour of duty’ scheme to enlist jawans in India’s defence forces that was rolled out in 2022. Agniveers will be enlisted for four years, after which 25% of the recruits will be retained in the services based on merit. For Dhanuri and many other villages in the region that have for decades been sending youths in droves to the forces to earn and serve till they retire, the four-year tenure was a rude shock. Before Agnipath was rolled out, the ground teemed with teenagers and youths in their early 20s sprinting and exercising on the sand to prepare for their entrance into the services, trainers keeping a hawk eye and barking instructions, boys egging each other on. Dhanuri wears that tag ‘village of soldiers’ with pride. But for how long? This is an anxiety that has been creeping up since 2022. There are similar ‘Army villages’ across north India — in the Himalayan terrain of Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal, Dehradun and Uttarkashi, the sun-baked plains of Haryana, and the sweeping expanse of Uttar Pradesh — where empty fields are a recurring sight.

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