Under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), smart card based cashless health insurance cover of Rs. 30000 per annum on a family floater basis is provided to BPL families ( a unit of five) in the unorganised sector. More than 2.54 crore BPL famili ..
The Provident Fund handled by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation is known as Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF). Rate of interest on Employees’ Provident Fund for every year is recommended by the Central Board of Trustees, Emp ..
Hon’ble Supreme Court in its judgement dated 08.11.2011 in the matter of Employees’ Pension Fund Commissioner Vs. O.L. of Esskay Pharmaceuticals Limited and others, SLP (Civil) No. 7642, 7644, 7645 and 7646 of 2011 upheld the priority of ..
There is no proposal for introduction of Public Provident Fund (PPF) Scheme for unorganised sector. At present, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has a total of 258 offices in the country including the State of Bihar. Subject to t ..
They have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder and negligence The six directors of Amri Hospitals Ltd arrested in connection with Friday’s fire were produced in court on Saturday and remanded into police custody for ..
Eight months after his five-day fast at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar brought corruption into national focus, social activist Anna Hazare returned to the same venue on Sunday and shared the stage with senior opposition leaders, who backed his key ..
Shri Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology held a press conference here today to make a statement on 2G issues on behalf of the Government. Following is the text of his press statement. “Since the su ..
In a new twist to the probe into the abduction of Jodhpur's nurse Bhanwari Devi, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested her husband, Amarchand Nat, for his alleged non-cooperation and suspected role in the conspiracy. T ..
A special CBI court on Thursday finally allowed Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy to become a witness in support of his private complaint seeking home minister P Chidambaram’s prosecution in the 2G scam. Immediately after news of this o ..
Despite criticism of the appointment process, and pendency , the Supreme Court appears to enjoy public confidence like no other institution As the Supreme Court of India approaches its final week of hearings for the year, a look back shows it ha ..