The applicant must have an operational savings bank account.
80% of beneficiaries in 300 districts to be linked with direct benefits transfer
Modi, who was in France on the first leg of his three-nation tour, said there have been a number of constructive changes in the last five years.
In analysing census data from 2007-2011, researchers found that the at-birth sex ratios of Asian Americans are the same as white Americans. Arthur J Pais reports
The city needs some autonomy, or it will continue to decline in all the ways that are familiar, observes T N Ninan
Greeks are split on whether to accept an offer by creditors that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a "humiliation"
Railways can contribute 2.5 per cent to three per cent in the GDP with an improved infrastructure, he said.
Some of their tactics would put a snake oil salesman to shame, says Harsh Roongta.
Trump said that his proposal should be supported by both parties (Republican and Democratic) as a fair compromise -- one where nobody gets everything they want, but where the country gets the critical reforms it needs.
Most of these road contracts are spread across Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, with the government struggling to restart them.
Elaborating on this theme, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan pointed out that if the power sector had not been opened up through reforms initiated in 2003, India would still have been in darkness.
Millions voted in the United Kingdom on Thursday in the country's closest polls in decades as Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party and opposition Labour were locked in a dead heat electoral battle with migrant voters, including the Indian diaspora, expected to be the deciding factor.
Though the wily TRS supremo, credited with achieving the separate state of Telangana, stopped short of saying he was about to declare dissolution of the assembly, none doubted its imminence.
What lies ahead for Korea's forgotten athletes? Take a look.
Both the Greek and Iranian deals are extremely imperfect and fraught with uncertainty, says Claude Smadja.
The NCLT said the new board must hold its meeting by October 8 and come out with a road map before the next hearing on October 31
'Is it time to think beyond the traditional questionnaire-based approach in India?' asks Atanu Biswas.
'UBI is a tricky subject.' 'Our worry is the government could get rid of UPA's social welfare schemes targeted at the poor.'
'For the first month, we have only had 5.5 million who have paid the tax.' '40 per cent have paid nil as tax; 95 per cent of the taxation for the first two months has come from only 400,000 assessees.' 'So even now, the tax-paying habit, of paying a marginal or negligible amount, or not paying anything at all, is quite prevalent,' reveals Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The President said that for rapid creation of jobs in the manufacturing sector, the government will strategically promote labour-intensive manufacturing.
Banks are clear that lending rates are not going to fall further, say Hamsini Karthik and Anup Roy.
"I want to know from the Congress as to why it is agitated and telling lies repeatedly. Is it because there is no Quattrocchi mama or Christian Michel in defence deals done by the BJP government," Modi said.
The stylish batsman of yesteryears polled 173 votes while his opponent Prakash Chand Jain got 73 votes. His entire panel won their respective contests.
A lot has been written about the impact of the recommendations.
Laying the roadmap of the Narendra Modi government for its second term, President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said empowering every person is the main goal for a 'New India' by 2022 on the back of a "stronger mandate" for continuing uninterrupted the journey of development started in 2014.
Many exemptions make little sense, such as a monthly exemption of Rs 100 for college education and Rs 300 for hostel fees.
'Make in India' could suffer the same fate as did privatisation and the command economy, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
To attract capital into infrastructure projects, the ratings system needs a fresh look.
The Union HRD minister Smriti Irani visited Hindu college recently to sort the issue of non-extension of fee waiver for persons with disabilities.
It raises three major questions - the incentive compatibility issue, the fairness issue and fiscal challenge, said Panagariya.
PSB branches will work fulltime on the 1st and 3rd Saturday.
Govt expects to save Rs 10,000 crore through this move.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget.
The independent institute advising the PM on jobs seems to have missed the point that the challenge is to create net additional jobs, says Mahesh Vyas.
The protection of individual security and privacy is critical to building safe online systems, say Mitchell Baker and Ankit Gadgil.
If the government could do without 23 per cent of the authorised posts, surely a start could be made in government downsizing by abolishing these vacancies, says A K Bhattacharya.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to deliver his third Independence Day speech on August 15, he is inviting ideas from citizens on issues he should speak on
The average bank customer does not know about the Customer Charter because it was designed - under Mr Rajan's regime - to be a lame duck initiative from the start: violating the charter has no consequences, points out, Debashis Basu.
'There is no senior bureaucracy functioning now; these people only obey.' 'This is only a command and control kind of governance.'
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