The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up Tamil Nadu and Kerala governments for inciting people in both states over the Mullaperiyar dam issue. "You are adding fuel to fire instead of dousing it. There has to be sanity and sensitiveness," ..
The fire services department was informed about the blaze in south Kolkata’s Advanced Medicare Research Institute (AMRI) in Dhakuria nearly two hours after it broke out on Friday morning, police investigators said. The fire is believed to ha ..
The Bill seeks to raise the capital base of LIC from Rs. 5 crore to Rs. 100 crore The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Life Insurance Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2009, that will replace a 55-year-old Act, aiming to raise the equity base of the s ..
The government has drafted the MMDR Bill over many months with the objective of boosting production of much-needed mineral resources in the country The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Bill, which seeks to replace a decades ..
There were few surprises in the second supplementary chargesheet, and the third overall, filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the second-generation (2G) case as the names of most of the people named had been the subject of specula ..
They have been booked under sections 120B (conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code There were few surprises in the second supplementary chargesheet, and the third overall, filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the ..
The CBI on Monday pulled into the 2G spectrum scam net Essar group promoters Ravikant Ruia and Anshuman Ruia, part of the $17-billion Essar empire that runs companies in more than 25 countries. They have been charged with cheating the department ..
In exercise of powers conferred under Section 6A of the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, the Central Government formulated the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995. The Scheme provides pensionary benefits ..
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 ..