Unified Pension System: The Narendra Modi-led government has approved a new pension scheme, the Unified Pension Scheme, which will come into effect in the next fiscal year, i.e. FY2025-26. After facing much criticism for removing the Old Pension Scheme, the NDA government has introduced the Unified Pension Scheme, which amalgamates the advantages of the previous … Read more
Broader markets catalysed the market fall on Tuesday with medium, small and microcap indices treading in deep red around 12:15 pm. The Nifty Midcap 100 index fell by over 7% or 3,700 points around this time to hit the day’s low of 49,623.10. This comes after a meteoric Monday rise after most exit polls gave … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asserted that the Narendra Modi government has never meted out step-motherly treatment to any state and his party has always supported the formation of Telangana. He said the carving of Telangana was done in such a way that it has led to bitterness. Rs 2,52,202 crore has been … Read more
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday hit out at party colleague Manish Tewari over his criticism of the UPA dispensation for its response to the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes, saying the ex-Union minister didn’t raise it when he was part of the government. The leader of the Congress party in Lok Sabha said instead … Read more
The Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan and its success are the most significant achievements of the Narendra Modi government, and the world has taken notice. (Photo source: IE) By Gopal Goswami, The most underappreciated success of the Narendra Modi government has been the revolutionary elemental shift in the thinking of Indian households that basic sanitation is what … Read more
The Narendra Modi government has set up a ministry of cooperation and handed over its reins to the powerful home minister Amit Shah. The recent history of India’s ministry formations tells us two things. Creation or, for that matter, even dismantling of a ministry is always a political call. For the government of the day, … Read more
Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday slammed the opposition Congress for spreading “false information” about agricultural reforms and said they have a “history of exploiting farmers”. The Narendra Modi government ensured a better future to farmers through the agrarian reforms which aimed at eliminating middlemen from the supply chain of farm produce, he said. … Read more