To keep the momentum of government spending, the finance ministry has allowed all ministries to utilise the unspent portion of the funds released to them in a quarter in the subsequent quarter.
The flexibility can be availed by the ministries and departments in the first quarter of a financial year after intimating the budget division of the finance ministry. However, the unspent balances from the second and third quarters can be utilised in the third and fourth quarters respectively only with &

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has recently recovered 52 kg of cocaine estimated to be valued at over Rs 500 crores in the international illicit market as a part of 'Operation Namkeen' from an import consignment. Based on extensive data analysis and field surveillance, intelligence was developed by DRI that certain consignments being imported from Iran were likely to contain narcotic drugs. In order to interdict the narcotic drugs, “Operation Namkeen” was launched