Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 18 (ANI/PNN): Iconic Brands of Maharashtra Awards 2022 recognized business leaders and entrepreneurs who deserve to be acknowledged and heard by the world The felicitation programme was organized by Maharashtra Societies welfare association Powered by Prober, Co-Powered by Once More Studios, along with India's leading PR company Red Ant Brand promotions, supported by Prittle Prattle, and Eventz Factory.

Once it enters Maharashtra through Deglur in Nanded — senior leader Ashok Chavan’s fortress — on 6th November, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, currently in Andhra Pradesh, is scheduled to cover 383 km in 16 days in the state before it heads to Madhya Pradesh. Mumbai: Either Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)’s chief Uddhav... The post appeared first on .

Once it enters Maharashtra through Deglur in Nanded — senior leader Ashok Chavan’s fortress — on 6th November, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, currently in Andhra Pradesh, is scheduled to cover 383 km in 16 days in the state before it heads to Madhya Pradesh. Mumbai: Either Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)’s chief Uddhav... The post appeared first on .

Once it enters Maharashtra through Deglur in Nanded — senior leader Ashok Chavan’s fortress — on 6th November, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, currently in Andhra Pradesh, is scheduled to cover 383 km in 16 days in the state before it heads to Madhya Pradesh. Mumbai: Either Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)’s chief Uddhav... The post appeared first on .

Nashik Apr 24 PTI Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday said the state government will set up the biggest hostel for students of all communities in Mumbai This hostel will come up on the three-acre land belonging to the State Higher and Technical Education Department in suburban Bandra he said Students from Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Research Training and Human Development Institute SARTHI Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Research Training Institute MAHAJYOTI economically backward classes all castes and communities will be given admission in this hostel Pawar told the gathering at a programme to dedicate the Matoshree Girls Hostel built by the Higher and Technical Education Department under late Yashwantrao Chavan Birth Centenary Year Project Higher and Technical Education Minister Uday Samant said hostels will be set up in Ratnagiri Aurangabad and Nagpur based on the Matoshree model of hostels Based on the Matoshree Hostel hostels will be set up in Ratnagiri Aurangabad and Nagpur and the movement to build hostels will be implemented across the state The Matoshree hostel has the capacity of 200 students As many as 75 students from SARTHI 75 students from MAHAJYOTI and 50 students from the economically-weaker sections will be given admission in this hostel Samant said PTI COR NSK NSK

New Delhi Jan 30 PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on February 1 present her fourth straight Union Budget when she presents financial statements and tax proposals for fiscal year 2022-23 April 2022 to March 2023 Here are some budget trivia- INDIAS FIRST BUDGET The Budget was first introduced in India on April 7 1860 when Scottish economist and politician James Wilson from East India Company presented it to the British Crown Independent Indias first budget was presented on November 26 1947 by the then Finance Minister R K Shanmukham Chetty LONGEST BUDGET SPEECH Sitharaman holds the record for delivering the longest speech when she spoke for 2 hours and 42 minutes while presenting the Union Budget 2020-21 on February 1 2020 With two pages still remaining she had to cut short her speech as she felt unwell She asked the Speaker to consider the remaining part of the speech as read During the course of this speech she broke her own record of July 2019 - her maiden Budget - when she had spoken for 2 hours and 17 minutes MOST WORDS IN BUDGET SPEECH At 18650 words Manmohan Singh delivered the longest Budget speech in terms of words in 1991 under the Narasimha Rao government In 2018 then finance minister Arun Jaitleys speech with 18604 words was the second longest in terms of word count Jaitley spoke for 1 hour and 49 minutes SHORTEST BUDGET SPEECH 800 words was all that the then finance minister Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel delivered in 1977 MOST NUMBER OF BUDGETS Former Prime Minister Moraraji Desai holds the record of presenting the most number of budgets in the history of the country He had presented 10 budgets during his stint as finance minister during 1962-69 followed by P Chidambaram 9 Pranab Mukherjee 8 Yashwant Sinha 8 and Manmohan Singh 6 TIME Until 1999 the Union Budget was presented at 5 pm on the last working day of February as per British era practice Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha in 1999 changed the budget presentation timing to 11 am Arun Jaitley started presenting the Union Budget on February 1 in 2017 departing from the colonial-era tradition of using the last working day of that month LANGUAGE Until 1955 the Union Budget was presented in English However the Congress-led government later decided to print the Budget papers in both Hindi and English PAPERLESS Covid-19 pandemic turned the Budget for 2021-22 was paperless - a first in Independent India FIRST WOMAN In 2019 Sitharaman became the second woman to have presented the budget after Indira Gandhi who had presented the budget for the financial year 1970-71 That year Sitharaman did away with the traditional budget briefcase and instead went for a traditional bahi-khata with the National Emblem to carry the speech and other documents RAILWAY BUDGET Till 2017 railway budget and Union Budget were presented separately After being presented separately for 92 years the Railway budget was merged in the Union Budget in 2017 and presented together PRINTING Till 1950 the budget was printed at Rashtrapati Bhavan till it got leaked and the venue of printing had to be shifted to a press at the Minto Road in New Delhi In 1980 a government press was set up in the North Block - the seat of the finance ministry ICONIC BUDGETS - The Black Budget The 1973-74 Budget presented by Yashwantrao B Chavan in the Indira Gandhi government was called the Black Budget as the fiscal deficit during that year was Rs 550 crore It was a time when India was going through acute financial distress - Carrot Stick Budget The Union budget presented by VP Singh for the Congress government on February 28 1986 was the first step towards dismantling licence raj in India It was called the Carrot and Stick budget as it offered both rewards and punishment It introduced MODVAT Modified Value Added Tax credit for lowering the cascading effect of tax that consumers had to pay while also launching an intense drive against smugglers black marketers and tax evaders - Epochal budget Manmohan Singhs landmark 1991 budget under the PV Narasimha Rao government that ended licence raj and began the era of economic liberalisation is known as Epochal Budget Presented at a time when India was on the brink of an economic collapse it among other things slashed customs duty from 220 per cent to 150 per cent and took steps to promote exports - Dream Budget P Chidambaram in the 1997-98 budget used the Laffer Curve principle to lower tax rates to increase collections He slashed maximum marginal income tax rate for individuals from 40 per cent to 30 per cent and that for domestic companies to 35 per cent besides unleashing a number of major tax reforms including a voluntary disclosure of income scheme to recover black money Referred to as the Dream Budget it also slashed customs duty to 40 per cent and simplified excise duty structure - Millennium Budget Yashwant Sinhas Millennium Budget in 2000 laid the road map for the growth of Indias Information Technology IT industry as it phased out incentives on software exporters and lowered customs duty on 21 items such as the computer and computer accessories - Rollback Budget Yashwant Sinhas 2002-03 budget for the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee is popularly remembered as the Rollback Budget as several proposals in it were withdrawn or rolled back - Once-in-a-Century Budget Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 2021 presented what she called was once-in-a-century budget as it looked to revive Asias third-largest economy via investing in infrastructure and healthcare while relying on an aggressive privatisation strategy and robust tax collections PTI ANZ MKJ MR MR

Mumbai Dec 30 PTI Maharashtra on Thursday reported 198 new cases of the Omicron variant including 190 in Mumbai alone the state health department said in a releaseThe tally of cases of this latest coronavirus variant in the state went up to 450A 52-year-old man with a travel history to Nigeria who died of a heart attack on December 28 tested positive for Omicron but the death had nothing to do with the infection the release saidThe patient had been admitted to the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporations Yashwantrao Chavan Hospital He also had diabetes for the last 13 years it saidThe death of this patient was due to non-covid reasons Coincidentally todays National Institute of Virologys report reveals that he was infected with the Omicron virus it addedOf the 198 Omicron cases reported by the NIV during the day only 30 have recent international travel historyFour Omicron cases were reported in Thane city while Satara Nanded and the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations reported one case each PTI PR KRK KRK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 30 (ANI): A 52-year-old man, who was infected with COVID-19 Omicron variant, died of a heart attack on Tuesday at Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation's Yashwantrao Chavan Hospital in Pune, said as per the Public Health Department.

Mumbai Nov 25 PTI Pune-based vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India was on Thursday conferred with the state-level Yashwantrao Chavan Award for the year 2021 an official said The companys CEO Dr Umesh Shaligram accepted the award from NCP chief Sharad Pawar it was stated The state-level award is given on the death anniversary of Maharashtras first chief minister late Yashwantrao Chavan to persons or organisations for their outstanding contribution in various fields The award comprised a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh a memento and citation PTI MR ARU ARU

Pune Nov 24 PTI NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday offered floral tributes to Maharashtras first chief minister Yashwantrao Chavan on the eve of the latters death anniversary in Karad of Satara district Pawar visited Chavans memorial at Pritisangam a confluence of rivers Krishna and Koyna in Karad The NCP chief was accompanied by Satara MP Srinivas Patil and cabinet minister and district guardian minister Balasaheb Patil PTI SPK ARU ARU ARU ARU ARU