New Delhi: Just 4.6 percent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 percent, the first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said today. The percentage of Scheduled Caste (SC) households paying income tax wasContinue Reading
New Delhi: Amidst allegations of its principal trying to protect the accused, the HRD Ministry on Friday refused to intervene in the molestation row at St Stephen’s College, saying such issues are to be handled by the institution’s Internal Complaints Committee as per Supreme Court guidelines. Ministry officials, however, saidContinue Reading
A new bill to regulate immigrant influx goes against local peopleContinue Reading
Minister resolves tussle between students and administrationContinue Reading
The school is predicted to become of the top ones in the countryContinue Reading
It also recommends 75 percent increase in the salary of Members of ParliamentContinue Reading
Bareilly — An audit of beneficiaries of the Janani Suraksha Yojna in Uttar Pradesh, which primarily guarantees through a small dole better food for new mothers in the days just after the delivery of their babies, has thrown up some startling “facts”. A woman, for instance, was declared pregnant threeContinue Reading
Imphal — Nearly 24 years after prohibition was imposed in Manipur, the state, for the first time, is planning to lift the ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor, with Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh tabling a proposal for the same in the Assembly. Speaking in the Assembly, theContinue Reading
Ahmedabad — The BJP government in Gujarat is mulling to introduce a chapter on Reliance Group founder Dhirubhai Ambani in school textbooks to instill spirit of entrepreneurship in young minds. The idea has been put across by Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma to the state Textbook Board, a senior state officialContinue Reading
New Delhi — Fresh fears about risks to women’s health by allowing Ayush doctors to conduct abortion and ambiguity on the proposed extension of gestation period may force the government to keep the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) amendment bill out of Parliament in the upcoming monsoon session. Already embroiled inContinue Reading
