New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- From India and New Zealand wrapping up trade talks in record time to the Centre planning a higher outlay on rail safety, a drop in overseas education remittances, shifts in the rural job guarantee burden, and a record US court payout in the Johnson & Johnson talc case-here's a compilation of this week's news in numbers.

The Centre is likely to announce an outlay of over Rs.1.3 trillion in FY27 on rail safety in the Union budget, about 12% higher than the current fiscal's amount of Rs.1.2 trillion, Mint reported. Funds would be used for rolling stock maintenance, track renewals, and expanding Kavach-India's automatic train protection system.

This marks a shift in the government's focus towards railway safety: the ou...