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Takeaways from Kerala Budget 2025

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The budget speech was held on 7th February by the Financial Minister of Kerala K N Balagopal in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. The Economic Review report was presented in the Assembly on February 7, 2023. This is Mr Balagopal’s fifth Budget after taking over as Kerala’s Finance Minister. Budget National Budget Article  Major Announcements from the Budget Speech  GSDP rate- 2024-25 -  11.77%  GSDP- ₹ 13,11,437 crore Public Debt- ₹40,848.21 crore Revenue Deficit- 2.1% ₹750 Crore for Wayanad Relief Package Expected  growth rate Local Self-Government-  ₹ 15,980.41 crore  LSG General Purpose-  ₹ 2,577 crore Kerala Climate Resilient Agri Value Chain Modernisation Project:  ₹ 2,365 crore Removal of river sand from the Bharatapuzha, Chaliyar, and Kadalundi rivers will be resumed Six-lane highway construction to be completed by December 31, 2025 Pilgrimage tourism in Kozhenchery-  ₹ 3 crore Sabarimala Master Plan-  ₹ 1033.62crore KSEB...

News Capsule for the Month of October 2023

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Following are the top news for the month.   If you wish to follow and get notifications of future articles, you can sign up using the email on the left sidebar.  Article of the month Kerala  CPI-M leader Ananthalavattom Anandan Passed away.  19th-century sketch put up online by an Israeli Prof draws attention to the dying community of Cochin Jews. Kerala CM inaugurates various projects backed by CIAL- Inauguration of Cargo terminal, DigiYatra, Airport Emergency Services & Launching of T3 expansion, Golf tourism, PIDS & Aero Lounge. Karuvannur Bank Fraud grabs headlines in the state.  Kerala to get its first night street- Manaveeyam Veedhi. Massive rains were received across the state. The capital Trivandrum saw extensive waterlogging for a day.  Kerala has successfully managed to mitigate the Nipah disease outbreak. Multiple trains were delayed in Kerala due to Vandebharat.  BJP chief, 5 others asked to appear before the court in an electi...

Why is Israeli-Hamas War Happening? Reasons and Causes Explained

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On 7th October, Israel witnessed multiple rockets showering over its cities and its southern cities attacked on-ground by Hamas. Many Israeli and foreign citizens were taken hostages and many others were killed in direct attacks. The amount of deaths is one of the highest in years for Israel. Many experts also claim it is Israel's 9/11 or the 7/10. Why it happened? We will answer it elaborately in the article. You will see extensive coverage of the live events and analysis on mainstream media, but what I will be focusing on is the reasoning behind the same.  In 1973, during the festival of Yom Kippur, the month of October, Syria and Egypt jointly made a surprise attack on Israel. Exactly 50 years after the same, Hamas made a surprise attack on Israeli cities, firing rockets and through ground incursions. Hamas fired more than 5000 rockets and Israel dropped 6000 tonnes worth of bombs in Gaza at the time of publishing the article. With Israel calling for a full-scale invasion in Gaz...

Geopolitical Impact of Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Context of Recent Updates

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  Greetings to all listeners and readers!! The Israel-Palestine conflict is more than a century old with complexities and convolutions. Today we won't discuss the history and the basics of the conflict rather stick to the present with recent updates we have received. On 7th October Hamas infiltrated the Israeli territory and sent thousands of rockets on cities in the country. Israel retaliated with airstrikes, direct confrontation among many options. This has created widespread anger and fear across the world. Hence we will see a massive impact which will be discussed in the episode.  This episode is brought to you by  Newshamster , a digital news portal based out of Bengaluru and you can check them out at www.thenewshamster.com. You can also check them out on all social media handles for local, national and international coverage.   About The Collaborator  Newshamster  is a digital news portal based out of Bengaluru and you can check them out at www.t...

Why BJP Wins and Dominates Urban India?- What, Where, When, Why, How

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People often assume that voters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are driven by uneducated and illiterate masses mostly in North and West India. This is not true, even though BJP since 2014 has made inroads into new parts of India and even barged into rural areas, BJP's traditional or core votes have always been urban-centric. Since BJP's emergence in the late 1980s and the unprecedented rise in the 1990s, BJP has always dominated urban areas of North, West, Central and some pockets of South India. Since 2015, the BJP has also established a strong foothold in Urban Areas of the North-East such as Agartala, Guwahati, Imphal and many more.  BJP in 2004, lost the election heavily as the message of BJP- India Shining worked only in Urban pockets of India. Even then the BJP held on to almost all of India's mega cities. Whereas in the 2009 election, the BJP lost most of it to Congress in a surprise. The party was able to cling to only one mega city- Bangalore. In 2014, the BJP...