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Women employees may now nominate children for family pension

In a path-breaking decision with far-reaching socio-economic impact, the Centre has allowed woman employees to nominate her son or daughter for family pension, instead of her husband, according to......

Ajit Pawar and men win big, Shinde and Co lose out in Maharashtra portfolios

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was on Friday allocated the key finance and planning portfolio while some of the eight other Nationalist Congress Party leaders who joined the state......

Centre hiding truth about Odisha train accident: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled central government alleging that there were attempts to suppress the cause of the train accident......

SC dismisses plea against surrogacy rules barring donor gametes for couples

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging Union health ministry rules which prohibit donor gametes to couples opting for children through surrogacy. IMAGE: Kindly note that this......

SC to hear on Tuesday plea against donor gamete rules for surrogacy

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the rules issued by the Union health ministry which prohibit donor gametes to couples desirous of having children through surrogacy on the......

Family pension: Major decision for women employees

In a path-breaking decision with far-reaching socio-economic impact, the Centre has allowed woman employees to nominate her son or daughter for family pension, instead of her husband, according to......

How the wealth of India's richest can make a difference

An additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders, while a similar wealth tax on the 98 richest billionaire families......

Jaitley announces Rs 1.84 lakh crore for women and child development

Presenting his fourth Union Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday announced that funds for the welfare of women and children under various schemes across all ministries would be......

Roads before welfare: Modi faces dissent over spending shakeup

In his first full-year budget, approved by parliament on May 7, Modi halved funding for a scheme that gives millions of poor children free food and drastically cut allocations to make clean water......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

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