The West Bengal Government has planned to commence from next month a monthly stipend/pension for Old Writers and Litterateurs. In the first phase of this plan: 170 people...
As per Government of India data, Cigarette consumption in the country rose in 2011-12 after falling in the previous year. The domestic consumption of cigarettes during the year...
As per findings of ‘Youth4work. com’, a portal for student community, there are 17 aspirants for every one engineering job available. In comparison, students pursuing business administration have...
As per the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report 2013: India stood at 132nd position out of 187 countries on the gender inequality index – performing worse...
Union Minister of Communications & IT Sh. Kapil Sibal inaugurated India’s First All Women Employees Post Office at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. All the counters of this Post...
India and Portugal inked a Social Security Agreement (SSA). About 75,000 Indians are living in Portugal, most of them are working as professionals and self-employed. The bilateral Social...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said in its new banking license guidelines that the important criteria for processing the application would be the business model of...
Government’s direct cash transfer programme- the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme which began on January 1, 2013 which benefitted 11 lakh poor people will be rolled out throughout the...
As proposed in the Budget 2013-14, government will set up ‘Nirbhaya Fund’ of Rs 1,000 crore for safety and empowerment of women. Nirbhaya (fearless) was the pseudonym given...
