02/02/2022 - TOP 3 NEWS OF INDIA

Farmers' groups accuse the government of having a "attitude of revenge" in the Union Budget 2022.

Budget allocations for agriculture and related activities, which still employ the majority of the population, increased by 2% in 2022-23. The sector's portion of total Budget appropriations decreased from 4.26 percent in 2021-22 to 3.84 percent in 2022-23.

Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister, promised high payment levels for rice and paddy purchase at the minimum support price (MSP), and her address focused on agricultural technologies and start-ups, which thrilled the embryonic industry. Farmers' organisations, on the other hand, were dissatisfied with the absence of support for the acquisition of products other than rice and paddy, as well as the reduction in fertiliser subsidies. The Centre's goal of doubling farmers' income by 2022, which has been a recurring theme in recent Budget speeches, was absent this time.

Budget 2022: Govt to charge additional ₹2 excise duty on unblended petrol

During her Budget 2022-23 speech today, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the government will levy a 2/litre differential excise duty on unblended fuel. Though the change is intended to encourage fuel blending and consumption, it would also raise the price of most unblended petrol and diesel supplied in India by 2. "Fuel blending is a top goal for this administration. Unblended petrol would be subject to an additional differential excise duty of 2/ litre beginning October 1, 2022, to encourage efforts to blend fuel "In her budget speech, Sitharaman remarked.

Rajnath Singh claims that women fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force are no longer an experiment.

In a major ruling in October 2021, the Supreme Court allowed women to enrol in the National Defense Academy. In June 2022, the academy will induct its first cohort of female cadets. According to defence minister Rajnath Singh, what began as an experiment six years ago to allow women to fly fighter planes in the Indian Air Force (IAF) is likely to become a regular component. He stated that the government has decided to make the experimental scheme to induct women as fighter pilots permanent, which was announced in 2015.