Now, withdraw PF savings with a self-declared form to pay medical bills
The Labour Ministry has issued a notification on April 25 doing away with the requirement of EPF subscribers to get their employer’s approval or submit doctor certificates to withdraw provident fund savings for medical purposes.
'If you don't pay as promised, you will go to Tihar straight from here', SC tells Roy in open court
The Supreme Court on Thursday warned Sahara chief Subrata Roy that he will be sent straight from the court to the Tihar Jail if he fails to abide by the undertaking given by him that he will deposit an instalment of Rs. 1500 crore in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)-Sahara account by June 15, 2017.
Delhi Police team takes Dhinakaran to his home for interrogation
After more than two hours of interrogation at the Rajaji Bhavan Central Government Offices Complex in Chennai on Thureday, a Delhi Police team took AIADMK Amma leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran to his residence in Venkateshwara Nagar in Adyar for further grilling.
Two lawyers and a few supporters of Mr. Dhinakaran staged a protest for not allowing them to meet him.
Vinod Khanna: The actor who narrowly missed becoming a superstar
There is no place to hide even in your weakest and most vulnerable of moments. This fact about social media was reiterated yet again, just a few weeks ago, when late actor Vinod Khanna’s pictures , taken during treatment for bladder carcinoma at Sir H N Reliance Hospital in Mumbai, were widely circulated and shared online across several platforms. The invasion of his privacy came with an associated poignancy. The frail, fragile, enervated presence of Khanna was shockingly remote from how we have always held him: a tall, suave, extremely handsome man with intense eyes and a conspicuous cleft chin.
Modi flags off Shimla-New Delhi flight under UDAN scheme
Prime Minster Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the much awaited UDAN scheme , the low cost air connectivity for the common man, from the Jubbarhatti airport in Shimla. “I had always wanted the man in streets wearing hawai chappals to do the hawai yatra”, he said in his short address on the airport.
DRY DAYS | LANDSCAPE OF SCARCITY - Desperation-fuelled drilling
Venkata Narayana Reddy, owner of a five-acre farm, was considered a well-to-do, big agriculturist in Kautapalli village, in Nallamada mandal of the arid Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. He had an annual income of Rs. 3 lakhs from the mulberry he cultivated, and a silk rearing unit. But this was 10 years ago.
Lokpal Act workable in present form: SC
Pushing for the immediacy of a Lokpal for transparency in government and public life, the Supreme Court on Thursday said the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act of 2013 , in its original form, was an "eminently workable piece of legislation". There was no need to keep its implementation in abeyance till the parliamentary standing committee's proposed amendments are incorporated, the court observed.
Udaipur boy scores 100% in JEE-Main exam
Kalpit Veerval, from Udaipur in Rajasthan, has topped the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) with a perfect 100% score.
The results of the exam conducted for admission to various engineering colleges, including the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), were declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education in New Delhi on Thursday.
India puts Champions Trophy squad on hold
India is refusing to unveil its squad for the Champions Trophy amid speculation it might pull out owing to a row with the International Cricket Council (ICC) on revenue sharing.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has already missed the agreed April 25 deadline for naming the squad for the eight nation event beginning in England and Wales on June 1.
NGT issues contempt notice to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The National Green Tribunal on Thursday issued contempt notice to the Art of Living foundation’s Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on a plea against him for blaming the Centre and the panel for damaging Yamuna floodplains by allowing his NGO to hold a cultural extravaganza.
