Farmers' outfit Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) on Sunday said it has given a call for "Delhi Chalo" on February 26 with seven major demands, and in the run-up to it, 15 more "Kisan......
A septuagenarian widow has received family pension after waiting for over half a century for it. Harapriya Devi, 77, whose husband died while serving as a lecturer in the English department in......
'Silencing citizens has become a major institutional process under this regime.''The anti-Indian argument is a bogey -- meant to silence independent thinking people in India and turn us into goats......
Toughening its stand on the contentious infiltratation issue, the Kendrapara district administration in Orissa has imposed a 20-year domicile embargo on migrant Bengali-speaking people to attain......
'There is one weapon in the government's armoury which impacts the independence of the judiciary, and which has not been affected by the collegium system.''It is post-retirement employment with the......
A slew of private sector schemes tap the small savings of the informal sector to provide pension cover to the old who are not covered by any government scheme.The winter's tale in the life of an......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday asked chief ministers to carry forward pension reform as the liabilities of both the Centre and states was expected to cross a staggering Rs 100,000 crore......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday asked Left parties to reconsider their opposition to the pension bill so that government can provide a "legal basis" to the new pension system started last......
Even as the government faces opposition to its New Pension Scheme, various States, realising that their present pension liabilities are not sustainable, are moving ahead to embrace new scheme."We......
Giving relief to individual taxpayers, the government on Monday raised the income tax exemption limit by Rs 10,000 for general taxpayers, and by Rs 15,000 for senior citizens. For general......