Ballia: Chief of Army Staff General VK Singh on Sunday hinted at implementation of one rank, one pension and said all information regarding ex-Army men would be collected and their problems would be sorted out. Addressing a conference of ex-Army men Gen Singh said that all efforts were being made to implement one rank, one pension from the last two years. Stating efforts were also being made to remove disparity...
08:29 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Gujarat: As the hot summer triggers increased use of electricity, load shedding and power cuts in rest of the country, the power-surplus Gujarat is sitting pretty, defining the season differently. Gujarat has emerged as the largest solar power maker in India with more than 18,000 villages of the state receiving 24-hour electricity. "Earlier, the electricity used to go off often and we had to draw water manually. Now everything is...
06:21 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to demand smooth transfer of funds for various central schemes like MNREGA, supply of coal and improving infrastructure and was assured of all "due" help for development of the state. In his first formal meeting with the Prime Minister since taking over as Chief Minister, Yadav, accompanied by senior officials and ministers, discussed his policies...
12:55 AM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: Millions of small investors will get better returns on popular post office schemes like Public Provident Fund (PPF) and Monthly Income Scheme (MIS), with the government hiking interest rates on such schemes by up to 0.5 per cent with effect from April 1. Interest rate on PPF have been increased to 8.8 per cent from 8.6 per cent, while MIS will attract 8.5 per cent interest as against...
09:57 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry is considering to reduce the lock-in period for Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme to one year from the proposed three years to make it more attractive to retail investors. "The investors can put money in top 100 companies listed in BSE and NSE (under the scheme). We are looking at reducing the lock-in period requirement," said an official source. Sources said, however, that investors will...
04:51 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to boost retail investors' participation in the capital markets, the government has introduced a tax exemption scheme for equity markets targeted at new investors in the Union Budget 2012-13. A scheme christened as Rajiv Gandhi Equity Saving Scheme is expected to deepen bourses investors base and reduce volatility. Under the proposed scheme, a 50 per cent deduction on short-term capital gains tax will be allowed...
06:58 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Tiruchy: Comparing the welfare schemes of the AIADMK government with those of the previous DMK government, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said the previous governments schemes were aimed at benefiting DMK leader M Karunanidhis family, while the AIADMK governments schemes were intended for peoples benefit. Citing an example, Jayalalithaa said the DMK's free colour TV scheme was aimed at benefiting Karunanidhi's family, which owned a cable TV network. Jayalalithaa said Rs...
10:13 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Chennai: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday sought to refute the existence of any differences between his ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India on the issue of Adhaar and smart card's issued by his ministry. "There is no clash between Adhaar and the smart card issued by the home ministry," he said at a function held to distribute the Resident Identity Card (biometric smart card) in Pattipulam...
01:49 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Ahmedabad: In a major verdict, the Gujarat high court on Friday told the state government to discard its 'fixed pay job employment scheme' stating that it was exploitative in nature. The verdict could impact about 1.5 lakh employees who have been recruited under the scheme in different government departments. A division bench of acting chief justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and justice JB Pardiwala also told the state government to give regular...
11:14 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today underlined the need for striking a balance between fiscal consolidation and public expenditure, even as states stepped up their demand for more funds to achieve inclusive growth. "As the country enters the 12th Plan period in 2012-13, there is a need to balance the need for higher government expenditure for supporting improved and inclusive growth and the imperative of fiscal prudence," he said...
03:30 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's much lauded free education scheme has allegedly turned into a multi-crore scam with over 3 lakh fake student enrolments come to light. The case came to light when most of the students were found to have been enrolled in several schools simultaneously. In fact a few were enrolled in government schools but were found to be studying at private schools. According to Bihar government's...
03:24 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Chennai: To improve basic infrastructure facilities in cities and urban areas in the state, Tamil Nadu government today decided to start a scheme at a cost of Rs 6,653 crore. Under the "Integrated Urban Development Scheme", basic infrastructure, including drinking water, sewage water removal, health, rain water drainage, roads and streets, solid waste management, parking facilities and parks will be improved in corporation and townships at a cost of Rs...
12:53 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Ahmedabad: In what could be described as 'incentive-driven' empowerment of women, as many as 254 villages in Gujarat have entrusted their panchayats entirely to women and to college-going girls in one case. Under the scheme, government gives a reward of Rs 3 lakh for all-women panchayats in villages having under-5,000 population, and of Rs 5 lakh for villages with above-5,000 population. All panchayat members including the sarpanch in these villages...
11:20 AM, Dec 26, 2011
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Recently I got an opportunity to visit Chianttar and shoot a few corruption-related Citizen Journalist stories. Located around 45 km from Patna, Chianttar is a ...
01:16 PM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: A group of Google engineers has come launched a new website, Schemer, which is said to be an attack against Foursquare - a location-based social networking website. This new service has been designed to help people discover new things to do, share schemes with friends and help them do fun stuff in the real world. The site's page says, "Ever wonder what to do? Us too. Schemer can...
12:01 PM, Dec 11, 2011
CJ Jaganath exposes corruption in NREGA scheme while CJ Dhanrajia Devi uncovers corruption in the PDS mechanism. ...
08:21 PM, Dec 10, 2011
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, whose interventions have brought the backward Bundelkhand region into national focus on Thursday listened to the complaints of residents of the region straddling both Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and assured them of all possible help. "The Bundelkhand package money belongs to you. You must use it well and whatever issues you have, we shall try to address as best as we can,"...
03:47 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI has started probe into the alleged irregularities in spending Rs 10,000 crore allocated to Uttar Pradesh as central funds under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), as it registered five preliminary enquiries after orders of Allahabad High Court on November 15. The agency has constituted a big special investigating team comprising 26 officers, including five Superintendents of Police under the overall supervision of Additional Director, Joint Director...
11:42 PM, Nov 19, 2011
London: Greece, India, China and Thailand are home to the weakest national pension systems in the world, crippled by a mix of acute sovereign debt, young retirement ages, high ratios of pensioners to workers and poor pension take-up, a study showed. The Allianz Global Investors Pension Sustainability Index, which tracks the relative sustainability of national pension systems in 44 countries around the world, showed the number of Greek retirees to...
10:27 AM, Nov 08, 2011
CJ Agnes exposes how benefits of PDS, NREGA and other govt schemes do not reach villagers because of corruption. ...
12:38 PM, Oct 22, 2011
