Friday, February 1st, 2019
Social media becomes a key battleground for the 2019 Lok Sabha election
Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election, political parties and leaders were increasingly using social media to promote themselves and take on rivals, turning platforms such as Facebook into a central part of the campaign. Voters online The 2014 election had 83.40 crore voters, and the electorate in 2019 was expected to be around 90 crore. The BJP was reported to be concentrating on about 8 crore first-time voters, while the Congress was focusing on 11 crore 70 lakh people voting for the second time. Facebook had 21.7 crore monthlyRead More
Interim Budget 2019: Rs 6,000 a year for small farmers, no tax up to Rs 5 lakh
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented the Interim Budget 2019 in Parliament on 1 February, weeks before the Lok Sabha election, with major announcements for farmers, unorganised-sector workers and middle-class taxpayers. Ahead of the speech, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the government’s “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas” approach would be reflected in it. Farmers A new scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, would pay Rs 6,000 a year, paid as three instalments of Rs 2,000 each, directly into the bank accounts of farmers holding less than 2 hectares of land. TheRead More