Crackdown on illegal borewells in Delhi

New Delhi: Authorities in Delhi have on...

The geopolitical implications of the Adani case

The aim of this case might be...

ISLAM: Tazkiya; Means of reaching God

Man is the creation and God is...

Kundan Jha

10 lakh youths will be inducted into PM’s Mitra schemes

The schemes would give opportunity to unemployed youths to become the ‘government’s friends’ in promoting solar energy, health, tourism and banking sectors.   The Centre will...

‘Non-NDA states playing emblem politics to cover up their failure’

The emblem debate began when Siddaramaiah, former Karnataka CM, raised a separate flag demand.   The rising demand for separate emblems, particularly from non-Bharatiya Janata Party...

Parties looking beyond major castes in Rajasthan

BJP is trying to integrate less important castes to create another vote bank.   Political parties in Rajasthan are looking beyond Jats and Rajputs, the two...

BJP’s tech outreach fulcrum of poll campaign

The strategy is to woo the youth who account for nearly 41% of the total voters in the country.   With an eye on the general...

Congress plans youth outreach ahead of polls

Rahul has decided to build a team of 100 youths in every district.   Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Congress has started brainstorming about...

‘Consensus needed among parties for one nation, one poll’

The ambitious “One Nation, One Poll” proposal to hold elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies simultaneously is unlikely to take off unless...

Digvijaya is callling the shots in MP

He has been appointing his old and new loyalists in district and division level coordination panels.   With the appointment of his loyalists in district and...

Green clearance to projects in 170 days instead of 600

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has started granting faster clearances to big ticket industrial and infrastructure projects spread across the...

Centre initiates reforms in unorganised sector

Starts process for the creation of a National Platform of Unorganised Workers.   The Centre has started big bang reforms in the unorganised sector with the...

NCS yet to show good results

The Centre’s flagship online employment exchange project—the National Career Service (NCS)—that was launched in July 2015, has over 4.25 crore job seekers registered with...

Congress will use civil society, NGOs in states going to polls

With Assembly elections due in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh later this year, the Congress is trying to come up with an electoral strategy...

Centre unlikely to introduce National Education Policy soon

‘The Ministry of Human Resources Development does not want to attract controversy ahead of the 2019 general elections’.   The nation will have to wait till...

For benami property cases, ED may get adjudicating authority

After waiting for nearly one-and-half years, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is likely to soon get an adjudicating authority mandated for ED under the Prohibition...

UGC reform on hold

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has dropped the idea of creating a single regulatory body to replace the University Grants Commission (UGC)...

BSP mulling alliance with Congress in Rajasthan

Congress and BSP have already announced an alliance for Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections.   After tasting success in by-elections in Gorakhpur, Kairana and Phulpur in Uttar...

Mudra Yojana has started showing results

Number of micro, small and medium enterprises has increased by 25% this year.   The Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) launched by the Narendra Modi government...

Work on Western Peripheral Expressway to be expedited

With the inauguration of the Eastern Peripheral Expressway last month, the Western Peripheral Expressway can now hope for better days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Functioning of e-mandis is not as effective as envisaged

According to latest figures, 585 mandis have been enrolled under e-NAM, and 200 more are likely to be connected soon. However, only a fraction...

PM’s fitness campaign may boost rs 5,000cr industry

According to a research, Delhi-NCR is the most fitness conscious region in India, burning close to 340 calories daily and at least 10 days...

ITDC may go the Air India way, belly-up

The tourism corporation is not only witnessing a decline in earnings in India, its foreign exchange earnings are falling too.   Plummeting profits may make the...

Rural job scheme beset with problems

Staff crunch, delay in payments and fund shortage are the key reasons behind the dismal picture.   Staff crunch, unreasonable delays in payments and official budget...

Direct tax reform may get delayed

Task force formed for the purpose missed a deadline and has been given a three-month extension.   Rewriting of direct tax laws is likely to get...

Shell firms may be defined soon

A decision is likely to be arrived at after getting inputs from probe agencies.   The Centre is likely to introduce a definition of a “shell...

Centre adopts initiatives to boost project Namami Gange

The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR-RDGR) has adopted a range of initiatives to provide a boost to the “Namami...

GST data analytics makes it hard to escape mismatch in returns

The data analytics used by the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has made it virtually impossible to escape any mismatch in filing GST...

Centre preparing roadmap for health protection mission

The Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission envisages medical coverage to 10 crore poor families.   After getting the green light from the Union Cabinet on 21...

‘Electrification of households still lagging in several states’

The data of the Ministry of Power also says that almost 3 crore households are living in darkness.   Despite the Centre’s massive electrification drive, the...

Red Fort MoU not for revenue generation

MoU and related documents clearly state that ‘Adopt a Heritage’ plan is a CSR initiative.   The Centre’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Dalmia Bharat...

Paid up capital not a must for private limited firms

‘The changes are meant to provide a seamless business environment’.   Paid up capital is no more a mandatory condition for the incorporation of a private...

Subsidy removed, but record number of pilgrims going on Haj

The number of pilgrims who will go on Haj this year will be a record 175,025 despite the discontinuation of Haj subsidy, Ministry of...

‘Apollo defying SC order to provide free treatment to poor patients’

Despite a fine slapped by the Delhi High Court in 2009 and a subsequent Supreme Court interim order, the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here has...

Currency notes being sold on e-shopping platforms

As per the offer up on eBay’s website, one can buy one stack of 100 new Re 1 currency notes for Rs 555, and...

Agencies using traditional ways of combating cryptocurrency

The country’s investigative agencies are still employing traditional ways to combat the use of cryptocurrencies in financing terrorism and other illicit activities, cyber experts...

Major part of cess money is unspent

A major chunk of tax collected under research and development (R&D) cess, clean energy cess, and secondary and higher education cess is still unspent,...

All post office branches to be linked with IPPB

Indian Post Payments Bank is offering savings account up to a balance of Rs 1 lakh.   The Ministry of Finance has approved the linking of...

Ministry needs to expedite power connections to houses

The implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya scheme), which was rolled out in September 2017 to provide electricity to...

Meetings between Nitish Kumar, Paswan trigger speculation

‘RJD’s rising popularity and concerns over losing their core voters have added pressure on the leaders’.   After the recently concluded Bihar bypolls, frequent meetings of...

‘Hike in import duties is a protectionist measure’

Experts say that the hike in customs duties on imports will widen the trade deficit and attract more litigation at the WTO.   The hike in...

Paytm customers facing hurdles in KYC process

Customers of Paytm wallets are facing difficulties in getting their “Know Your Customer (KYC)” process completed due to the lack of stores and manpower...

Centre’s BPO schemes aim to provide jobs

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has plans to fill 53,300 seats in BPO companies across the country.   In order to create jobs in...

Directors with ID, loan borrowers will have to give passport details to corporate ministry

In the absence of such details, banks were hamstrung in taking action to prevent defaulters from flying out of the country.   In order to improve...

Reforms improve serious fraud office’s operations

From 2004-05 to 2016-17, the SFIO examined 312 cases, out of which, 186 cases were registered during 2014-15 to 2016-17.   The Serious Fraud Investigation Office...

Corporates are not spending to ‘clean Ganga’

Companies across India have spent little out of their total expenditure under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two pet projects,...

Two years on, DU V-C yet to form a full team

Delhi University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi has completed two years on 10 March, but is yet to form a permanent team of officials, including...

Exports declining in labour intensive sectors

Despite the Centre’s focus on promotion of exports and creation of jobs, the country’s exports, mainly from the labour intensive sectors, have been on...

Houses built under Rajiv Awas Yojana will be tested for quality

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MHUA) has formed a committee to investigate the quality of houses built under the Rajiv Awas Yojana...

Banks submit list of 645 loan defaulters to agencies

After Nirav Modi’s alleged bank fraud case, the government and banks are preparing the ground to take tough action against borrowers of loans who...

University teachers yet to get 7th Pay salaries

Teachers of Centrally-funded universities in the country like Delhi University (DU) and Jamia Millia Islamia, are yet to start receiving revised salaries recommended by...

Seven sugar companies are under ED scanner

As many as seven sugar companies, including Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd (SSL), against which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has already registered a case...

Railways will buy 5 lakh CCTVs for security

In a bid to ensure safe and secure journey for passengers, the Indian Railways is likely to start the procurement of CCTV cameras from...

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