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* The Modi government has asked builders not to charge any GST from home buyers as the effective GST rate on almost all affordable housing project is 8 per cent which can be adjusted against the input credit. 
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* Digital transactions rose 4.73% to 1.11 billion in January from 1.06 billion in December. The transactions were worth about Rs 131.95 trillion.
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* Cabinet clears PM Research Fellowships (PMRF) for students of higher education institutions. The PMRF includes monthly scholarships of Rs 70,000 to Rs 80,000 and annual research grants of Rs 2 lakh for select scholars.
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* This is just another one answer for those who ask, "What does bullet train give India?"
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🔸Further benefit for the poor and middle class.
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🔹Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is another one of Prime Minister Modi's widely talked of yojanas, and it is ushering in change quietly — Infant Mortality Rate has fallen by a significant 8%.
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🔸Indian Railways will launch Jan Aushadhi stores and sanitary pad vending machines at about 7,000 railway stations. Around 20,000 porters along with their families will also be provided subsidised healthcare.
Absolutely brilliant!
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🔹Over 170 contracts were signed in defence procurement in the last 4 years of which 120 were with Indian vendors.
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🔸Value of mobile wallet transactions in India grew from Rs 24 bn in 2013 to Rs 955 bn in 2017 and are slated to go past the Rs 1 trillion-mark in early 2018. Indians are adopting mobile wallets faster the US and the UK.
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🔹The cancelation of almost 3 crore fake ration cards has led to savings of Rs 17,000 crore.
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🔸This is the Indo-Israel Center of Excellence for fruit in Lunglei, Mizoram. This is the first such project in the North East.
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🔹Piyush Goyal is exploring the possibility of facilitating manufacturing units for cheap and bio-degradable sanitary pads at 8,000 railway stations.
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🔸"Earlier, it was bullet for bullet," says a general in the Northern Command. "Now, it is a hundred rounds for every round he fires."
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🔹The Modi government will launch affordable sanitary napkins which will be available for Rs 2.50 per pad at over 3,200 Janaushadhi Kendras across India by 28 May, 2018 which is also the World Menstrual Hygiene Day.
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🔸LPG coverage has risen from around 56% three years back to a staggering 79.2%.
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🔹'Make in India' is not a fantasy. Here's India's first indigenous howitzer.
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🔸The Benami Transactions Act came into force on 5 September 1988, but it was powerless. It took 28 years for Narendra Modi to amend the original act and make it a potent weapon in fighting corruption. Why Congress couldn't do this, is anyone's guess.
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🔹Another example of how 'Make in India' isn't just a slogan.
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🔸As is clearly evident, honest and dedicated development spearheaded by women is a focus of the Modi government.
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🔹'Make in India' —
DRDO conducted penetration trial of the FSAPDS ammunition for the army's T-72 and T-90 MBTs. The ammunition's capabilities are at par with NATO and Russian. FSAPDS ammunition is the most lethal kinetic energy ammunition.
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