With 42 per
cent workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) scheme still not eligible for Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS),
the Union government on Aug 30 extended
the deadline for enabling payment of wages through the system to December 31.
Earlier, the deadline was September 1 and this is the fifth extension by the
Centre.
CPM leader and its former state committee member, Sarojini Balanandan, passed away in Kochi. She was 86. Read More..
Congress received a shot in the arm when senior BJP leader Vinod Sharma joined the grand old party in the presence of state president Akhilesh Prasad Singh and other senior leaders at Sadaqat Ashram . Read More..
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched a comic book on good health and wellness, which will be accessible in 11 languages, including Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil, and Telugu. Read More..
Seeking to fulfil another key pre-poll promise, the Congress government in Karnataka on Aug 30 launched the 'Gruha Lakshmi' scheme, offering monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 to about 1.1 crore women who are heads of their households. Read More..
The number of foreign tourists who arrived in India this year during January-June is 106 per cent more than the figure for the corresponding period in 2022. Read More..
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36-year-old man working as a senior manager with e-commerce giant Amazon was
shot dead in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura area . The incident took place on Aug 29 when five unidentified people opened
fire at Harpreet Gill and his maternal uncle Govind Singh in Subhash Vihar.
Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has called for stronger relationships with India, South Korea and Japan to reduce the US' economic dependence on China and Taiwan. Read More..