01-02-2017

y Former Union Minister E. Ahamed suffers a cardiac arrest in Parliament when President Pranab Mukherjee was delivering his address to the joint session at the start of the Budget session. Mr. Ahamed later died in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi.

y Austria’s governing coalition has agreed to prohibit full face veils in courts, schools and other public places as part of a package of reforms drawn up after more than a week of negotiations.

02-02- 2017

y Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely uses the occasion of his fourth budget to provide relief to the majority of tax payers by halving the rate of personal income tax for those with annual income of as much as Rs. 5 Lakh.

y Pakistani authorities place on Exit Control List the name of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) Chief Hafiz Saeed along with that of 37 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba.

03-02-2017

y Ten months after it was put on the government’s....

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