A lump sum of Rs 100,000 has been offered under the VRS package.
'BSNL employee cost is Rs 14,500 crore and we anticipate that around 80,000 should opt for VRS.'
No one is indispensable, says Lakshmi Murthy, chief people officer, ITM Group of Institutions.
They said that massive public investment in infrastructure, social sectors and agriculture would generate employment and the Union Budget should give it a priority and allocate necessary funds for this.
Rationalisation in taxation on the retirement scheme puts significant money in the hands of investors.
'What is this new PF rule? Complete nonsense!' 'I want my PF money right now and not when I am 58 years old.'
Another reason working in Air India's favour now is the government's plan to clean up part of the airline's burgeoning debt from its books - a major deterrent for investors when it attempted divestment the previous time.
Financial Times journalists have been asked if they would consider early retirement or voluntary redundancy, in a sign that the loss-making newspaper is preparing deeper cost cutting measures.
'Whatever ED officers do -- issue summons, conduct searches or arrest a person -- they have to face the courts.'
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday said that had he been in the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he would have changed perception of law and order in the state within 15 days and advised Akhilesh not to hesitate in sending errant officers to jail.
Telecom subscribers had it good during Rahul Khullar's watch as Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman.
Most insurers aren't comfortable with subscribing to the National Pension System as they see it as competition.
But increase in the statutory contribution will boost retirement corpus
The 61-year-old former top cop from Mumbai changed professions after listening to his 'inner voice'.
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The Narendra Modi government on Saturday announced acceptance of the long-pending demand for 'One Rank One Pension' but the ex-servicemen who have been on agitation rejected the key details of the decision and said their 84-day long stir will continue.
For FY16, MTNL's standalone net loss was over Rs 2,000 crore.
'I had done 23 years of very satisfying service -- 10 years in the police and 13 years in the Enforcement Directorate.' 'I had done law enforcement and thought the next step should be towards contributing to make good laws.'
Let Air India - that anyway flies very limited international routes, often bleeding profusely and makes huge losses on trunk routes - do this national service, says Anjuli Bhargava.
This is perhaps for the first time the CBI raided a serving police chief of a state.
EPFO manages a corpus of over Rs 8.5 lakh crore and its subscribers' base is over five crore at present.
'There were tears in my eyes when I parted with my medals. I thought was it for this moment did I become a soldier?' In 2008, Captain H Balakrishnan (retd) of the Indian Navy returned all his medals to the President of India to protest the government's failure to implement the One Rank One Pension scheme.
BJP's Colonel Rajyavardhan Rathore and Congress's Krishna Poonia face each other on Jaipur seat.
EPFO has verified or attested 64.67 lakh Aadhaar numbers.
Many exemptions make little sense, such as a monthly exemption of Rs 100 for college education and Rs 300 for hostel fees.
Since NPS is used for a long-term goal like retirement, allowing younger investors to have higher exposure to equities will give them a chance to earn higher returns.
If someone does reduce his contribution, he should scale it back to the 12% level as soon as he can, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Medhavi Kirti, the granddaughter of late veteran Congress leader Babu Jagjiwan Ram, has been campaigning against her aunt Meira Kumar, Lok Sabha Speaker and Congress candidate from Sasaram Lok Sabha seat in Bihar.
'In the last five years of UP government, the UP police were given a fair environment and the rule of law always remained supreme.' 'In these five years, nobody within BJP dared tell a police officer to act against the rule of law.'
National carrier Air India is running in losses and needs government's attention.
'... the government provides adequate cash and kind support for the poorest of the poor for survival... ...conditional cash and skilling support for the economically poor to raise their incomes to adequate levels... ...and make functional arrangements for providing unemployment allowance to the vulnerable poor during disasters like the present one.'
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Prior to 2011, the company was in dire straits. But recent financial results show its fortunes are on the mend.
Air India must tighten costs to comes out of the red or it wil perish in no time, says experts.
Investments and expenses under section 80 C allows various tax benefits, says Harjot Singh Narula
Here's how EPF stacks against other investment options
'The rate of interest from the EPF is still attractive compared to the rates on fixed deposits, National Savings Scheme, Public Provident Fund...'
'Today we see the worrisome phenomenon where honest officers who run afoul of the government being chased, hunted down and dirt being dug up on them.'
The focus on Swachh Bharat has sharpened with Prime Minister Modi asking ministers to show the outcomes of schemes launched since the NDA government came to power
'Today, three areas give banks a big headache -- steel, power, infrastructure.' 'Three Cs are very critical in lending -- character, capacity and collateral of the borrower.'
