Unable to pay up her education loan, a girl in Tamil Nadu had to face serious embarrassment at the hands of a public sector bank which named the beneficiary and her father as defaulters. Taking cognizance of the matter, the National Human Rights C
Sonalika Social Development Society, the CSR wing of India’s third largest tractor maker Sonalika International Tractors Ltd, in collaboration with United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) inaugurated ‘ART is TRY 4 SDGs’, an art
2014 – ghar wapsi; 2015 – cow slaughtering; 2016 – anti-nationalism. This has been the year-wise growth in India under the slogan of ‘achche din’. With the trampling of spring, the capital witnessed lawyers and legisl
On their way to independence, the Muhammad Ali Jinnah-led Muslim League chose to create a separate nation on the basis of religion. While Pakistan was conceived under the two-nation theory as a home for the Muslims of the former British Raj, India
In the budget 2016-17, union finance minister Arun Jaitley announced schemes for agriculture and farmers’ welfare and allotted Rs 35,984 crore for the same. Jaitley said that the government would reorient its interventions in
In his budget speech in the Lok Sabha, finance minister Arun Jaitley said that as part of the `minimum government and maximum governance` framework, the government would introduce a bill on targeted delivery of financial and other subsidies, benef
Finance minister Arun Jaitely, presenting the budget 2016-17 on Monday, said that the national agriculture marketing (NAM) e-platform will be launched on the birth anniversary of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar on April 14. NAM is a central gove
India’s growth of GDP has accelerated to 7.6 percent in the current financial year. Announcing this while presenting the general budget for 2016-17 in Lok Sabha, union finance minister Arun Jaitley said that this was achieved despite the con
Going purely by the number of times a keyword is mentioned (or not mentioned), it seems finance minister Arun Jaitley too has finally given up on the two big promises of the BJP: investment and growth.
* A comprehensive Code on Resolution of Financial Firms to be introduced. * Statutory basis for a Monetary Policy framework and a Monetary Policy Committee through the Finance Bill 2016.
While presenting the general Budget 2016-17 in Lok Sabha, finance minister Arun Jaitley said that the government has already accepted many recommendations of the Tax Administration Reform Committee. He further proposed to accept a number of recomm
In its bid to give a major push to improving the infrastructure in the country, finance minister Arun Jaitley, has announced a total outlay of Rs 2,18,000 crore as capital expenditure for roads and railways in 2016-17. The year’s budget also
The government has allocated Rs 2,059 crore for several ICT projects, including e-learning, e-panchayat and land record modernisation in its 2016-17 budget tabled in the parliament by finance minister Arun Jaitley.
* 100% deduction for profits to an undertaking in housing project for flats upto 30 sq. metres in four metro cities and 60 sq. metres in other cities, approved during June 2016 to March 2019 and completed in three years. MAT to apply.
* A Task Force has been constituted for rationalisation of human resources in various Ministries. * Comprehensive review and rationalisation of Autonomous Bodies.
More than the debate on who would take the Oscars home, it was a Twitter hashtag – ‘OscarsSoWhite’ – that acted as a prologue to the Academy Awards. The hashtag came as an insult to the awards ceremony which was heavily cri
(This article was written before the Budget 2016 was announced, which increased excise duty on all tobacco products by 10-15%) A report released in February says that tobacco products in the country have become more affordable tha
I first entered JNU in July 1997, weeks before India celebrated its fiftieth year of azaadi. Like most freshers, I was overawed by JNU’s sylvan sprawl, its honeycomb of red-brick buildings, its scruffy, jargon-spouting, jhola-toting students
2014 – ghar wapsi; 2015 – cow slaughtering; 2016 – anti-nationalism. This has been the year-wise growth in India under the slogan of ‘achche din’. With the trampling of spring, the capital witnessed lawyers and legisl
Going back in time by thousands of years holding on to the invisible strings of one’s DNA is a miracle of science. But geneticists studying the Indian genes are unable to trace the divisions that have marked India for a long time – fir
