LIVE: FM Sitharaman says only under-utilised assets will be monetised

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will launch the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) currently that will contain the Centre’s four-year system to monetise its brownfield infrastructure property. The governing administration has planned a Rs 6-trillion pipeline of property that can be monetised, which will contain a vary of property put on the block for private sector participation.

Amid deepening crisis in Afghanistan, United States President Joe Biden defended his transfer to withdraw troops from the country, indicating historical past will file this as a “logical, rational, and appropriate decision”. The Biden administration has occur under criticism from some quarters for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan as the Taliban captured electrical power, ensuing in chaos and deaths.