Bengaluru, March 6 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presented the Budget for the financial year 2026-27 — his 17th — in the Assembly on Friday with a total outlay of Rs 4,48,004 crore, marking a 13.3 per cent increase over the 2025-26 revised estimates. Siddaramiah said that Karnataka continues to lead the nation in all sectors of development. “We are one of the major states that contributes the highest to the tax revenue of the country,” he said.Defending the guarantee schemes, he…
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Islamabad/New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) The United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) recent statement to Pakistan to rethink its population dynamics is timely as well as constructive, but a sustained policy action towards it is going to be the real challenge, according to a media report.An editorial published in Pakistan’s financial daily, Business Recorder, stated that the UNFPA urges the country to make a purposeful and evidence-based plan and not count the rising population as an “inevitable…