Over 5.25 crore subscribers have enrolled in Atal Pension Yojana (APY), the government’s flagship social security programme launched eight years ago, the finance ministry said in a statement. The scheme was launched on May 9, 2015, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the objective of delivering old-age income security to all citizens of India, particularly … Read more
Niti Aayog is in the process of developing a National Gender Index to measure the progress and identify the persisting gaps in gender equality to make informed policy decisions. In its latest annual report, Niti Aayog said the index will serve as a tool to map the progress of states and Union Territories (UTs) on … Read more
Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh are the top five elderly states on the quality of life for elderly index released by the Economic Advisory Council to the PM on Wednesday. Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Chandigarh lead the rankings in relatively-aged states, north eastern states and union territories categories respectively. The index ranks … Read more
Andaman and Nicobar Islands MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend 100 per cent reservation for the domiciles of the archipelago in jobs under the Union Territory administration, as has been done in Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. Such a decision will ensure timely filling up of more than 7,500 … Read more
Delhi, which has been reeling under the third wave of coronavirus, has reported a death rate of 1.58 per cent as compared to the national fatality rate of 1.48 per cent. Experts attribute the high number of daily COVID-19 deaths in the national capital to a large number of “critical” non-residents patients coming to the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Of the 85,362 new coronavirus cases reported in India in a day, 75 per cent are found concentrated in 10 states and Union Territories, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. It also said India has conducted a total of seven crore tests for the detection of coronavirus infection till now with the … Read more
The total number of recoveries from COVID-19 surged to 48,49,584 on Saturday with 93,420 patients recuperating from the disease in a day which is more than the number of fresh cases recorded during the same period, the union health ministry said. With the recovery rate rising to 82.14 per cent, the ministry said India has … Read more
NEW DELHI: The National Executive Committee (NEC), which is responsible for drafting India’s lockdown and unlock guidelines to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, may be retained under a proposed amendment to the Disaster Management (DM) Act, 2005, officials aware of the matter said. The proposal to amend the Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is … Read more