The penalties included reduction in subsidies on loans and interest rates, reduction in benefits under the public distribution system and higher interest rates for availing loans from banks and financial institutions.
Read Full ArticleA juvenile convict was sent to an undisclosed place due to threat to his life after he was released from a correctional home in 2015.
In Assam, the NRC updation exercise was designed to filter out a specific set of non-citizens, or "illegal immigrants", from the total resident status. In line with the Assam Accord of 1985 and Sectio...
Different countries in the world have set different upper time limits for abortion with United Kingdom allowing it up to 24 weeks of gestation, Sweden allowing it till 18 weeks and Netherlands up to 2...
Sitharaman’s announcement is in consonance with the Prime Minister’s address on the 73rd Independence Day celebration, where he said that wealth creation was a great national service and that they...
Opposition parties with members like Saugata Roy, Asaduddin Owaisi, Shashi Tharoor and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had heavily critised the Government's move by terming it unconstitutional with demand to ...
The Union Cabinet cleared the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 for reintroduction in the Parliament in the Winter Session on Wednesday (December 4, 2019). The bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act o...
Labour and employment minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar on November 28, 2019, introduced the Industrial Relations Code, 2019, in the Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha on November 28, 2019, passed the Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019, that seeks to amend the Chit Funds Act, 1982, to streamline operations of chit funds in India and to protect the...
The Lok Sabha on November 27, 2019, passed the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which was introduced by the Minister of Home Affairs, Amit Shahon November 25, 2019.
The Lok Sabha on November 27, 2019, passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019, that seeks to merge Union Territories (UTs) of Dadra and Nagar Havel...