The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has announced new amendments for the Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance (EDLI) scheme, aimed at strengthening financial protection for families of deceased EPF members. These changes, announced in a meeting on February 28, 2025, are expected to benefit thousands of families annually by enhancing insurance payouts and extending coverage. EPFO … Read more
The Central government may increase Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for its employees and pensioners next week before Holi. This increment will benefit more than 1.2 crore central government employees and pensioners. The government conducts reviews of the dearness allowance twice a year, in January and July. The DA increase, typically finalized in … Read more
The Centre will be implementing the Unified Pension Scheme as an alternative within the National Pension System for Central Government employees already enrolled in the system. The Centre introduced the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) for central government employees last year, combining elements from both the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and the National Pension System (NPS). … Read more
Budget expectations: With the Union Budget 2025 less than three weeks away, TV Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Aarin Capital and former CFO of Infosys, said that the government should think about offering income tax relief to the middle class and simplify the existing taxation system. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Pai said the government should think … Read more
DA increase: The recent increase in dearness allowance (DA) for current central government employees and dearness relief (DR) for pensioners by 3% for the period of July-December 2024 has been implemented by the Central Government. The revised DA has been effective since July 1, 2024, bringing the allowance to 53% of the basic pay. This has … Read more
Union Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday tabled the Union Budget 2024-25 in the Parliament on Tuesday, wherein she introduced some changes to the direct taxes. FM Sitharaman made notable adjustments in the Income Tax Regulations to benefit the middle-class sector. One significant change is the 50% increase in the Standard Deduction, now … Read more
“One thing you will notice that in India no cement company has ever given any loss to the bank, no haircut. All cement companies have gone at a higher rate than what their debt was. So, it is a very clear that cement buyers are there quite a lot,” says HM Bangur, Chairman, Shree Cement.What … Read more
Top government officials are already getting a policy blueprint ready for different sectors much ahead the upcoming term of the NDA government, led by PM Narendra Modi. If the NDA government gets elected in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, it would be its third term in a row. The detailed plan for the next term … Read more
For decades, Britain’s Conservative Party politicians decried the European Union for its supposed aversion to free markets. Now trade negotiations that will define the future relationship between the U.K. and the EU from next year have stalled, in large part because Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government wants the freedom to ignore EU rules limiting state … Read more
Karren Madere and Andrea Knebel are both victims of the Covid-19 recession. Ms. Madere was laid off in June from her job at a travel-management company, where she negotiated hotel-room rates for corporate clients. Ms. Knebel was sent home in April from her job as a business consultant at an auto-parts factory. Ms. Madere, 61 … Read more