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.

Safety first

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 ...