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NEW DELHI: Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to raise foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector to 100 per cent from the existing 74 per cent, a move the government said would help increase insurance penetration, lower premiums and generate employment. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, was cleared by the Rajya Sabha through a voice vote, a day after it was passed by the Lok Sabha. The Upper House rejected amendments moved by the Opposition, ...Read More >
CHENNAI: MDMK General Secretary Vaiko has condemned the Union government for introducing a Bill to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), alleging that the move reflects the Narendra Modi-led BJP government's hostility towards Mahatma Gandhi and its disregard for the livelihoods of poor rural citizens. In a statement, the senior leader said that despite strong opposition from Congress, DMK, MDMK, Left parties and other Opposition members in Parliament, U ...Read More >
New Delhi: State Bank of India (SBI) is known for making significant decisions frequently. Now, SBI has launched YONO 2.0, a major upgrade to its digital platform. This new version includes both mobile and internet banking facilities, providing relief to customers. The new YONO app will also offer easy KYC and re-KYC facilities. This will eliminate the need for repeated verification for products and services. YONO stands for "You Only Need One," meaning you can easily make changes to your KYC a ...Read More >
New Delhi: Faced with the pollution crisis in Delhi, state Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Wednesday said his government was mulling radical solutions like a car pooling policy and the repairing of potholes across the national capital at a "war footing", measures that will likely have cascading impacts on residents and commuters. Speaking at a press conference in the Secretariat for the second consecutive day, Sirsa, while sharing details of the government's plans to tackle the cu ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Several non-ruling members in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday opposed the bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent and demanded that the proposed legislation be sent to a Parliamentary panel for further scrutiny. Participating in the debate on The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, moved for consideration and passage by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Upper House, members also objected to the title of the Bill, whic ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday met newly elected Uttar Pradesh state BJP President and Union Minister of State (MoS) for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary in the national capital. Pankaj Chaudhary, a seven-time MP from Maharajganj since 1991, has succeeded Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, who was appointed state BJP president in August 2022. Also Read | Maharashtra: Arrest Warrant Issued Against State Minister Manikrao Kokate After 2-Year Sentence in Housing ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The government has implemented comprehensive measures to protect the personal data of Aadhaar number holders, and no breach of data has occurred from the central database to date. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, in a press release on Wednesday, confirmed that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) uses a multi-layered security system to keep information safe. "Till date, no breach of Aadhaar card holders' data has occur ...Read More >
Bengaluru-based software professional was forced to sell her flat and two residential plots to meet their demands. As per the report, she was working with a software company and living with her 10-year-old son in a flat in Vignan Nagar. In yet another shocking case of cyber fraud in Bengaluru, a software professional was allegedly trapped in a "digital arrest" and cheated of nearly Rs 2 crore. According to a report by NDTV, the victim, Babita Das, was forced to sell her flat and two residentia ...Read More >
Police traced the money and technical trails, deploying teams across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Haryana, Rajasthan and Odisha Delhi Police busted an interstate cyber fraud syndicate by arresting 10 people from across 7 states, for allegedly defrauding people by impersonating law enforcement officers and threatening victims with "digital arrest", officers aware of the matter said on Tuesday. Deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Hemant Tiwari said that the network is linked ...Read More >
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: An international digital fraud syndicate allegedly involved in cheating its victims of over Rs 50 crore by impersonating law enforcement officials has been busted, with the arrest of 10 people, including from Odisha, police said Tuesday. The arrests were made from Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana as part of a probe that began in southeast Delhi, they said. The syndicate operated a digital arrest scam, threatening its victims through vi ...Read More >
Hyderabad: State Agriculture Director, Dr B Gopi, announced a major technological initiative aimed at streamlining urea distribution across Telangana. Addressing the media on Tuesday, he stressed that science and technology must support agriculture and revealed that a special mobile application developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) will soon be launched to ensure a transparent and efficient supply of urea to farmers. Dr Gopi explained that the app will be managed under the supervis ...Read More >
Lucknow, Dec 16 (UNI) Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav has launched a scathing attack on the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, saying that corruption is rampant in the state and law and order has completely collapsed. Calling the Codeine cough syrup case a "major scam," he said that the poisonous syrup claimed the lives of many people, yet the government is busy protecting the accused. He alleged that thousands of crores of rupees worth of illegal business was conducted thr ...Read More >
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh) [India], December 16 (ANI): As many as 34 Naxals surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, marking a significant breakthrough in the state's ongoing efforts to curb Left-Wing Extremism and restore lasting peace in the region. The surrendered Maoist cadres were collectively carrying a reward of Rs 84 lakh, the Bijapur Police said. The surrender took place under the state government's rehabilitation initiative titled "Poona Margham: Punarvas Se Punarjeevan" (Return to ...Read More >
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh) [India], December 16 (ANI): As many as 34 Naxals surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, marking a significant breakthrough in the state's ongoing efforts to curb Left-Wing Extremism and restore lasting peace in the region. The surrendered Maoist cadres were collectively carrying a reward of Rs 84 lakh, the Bijapur Police said. The surrender took place under the state government's rehabilitation initiative titled "Poona Margham: Punarvas Se Punarjeevan" (Return to ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) The e-KYC drive for ration cards that started in 2023 has seen 85.6 per cent completion across the country and over 99 per cent beneficiaries are now linked with Aadhaar, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Responding to supplementaries, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya said there has been a significant progress on Aadhaar seeding and e-KYC of ration cards. "All over the country, 99.9 per ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Dec 16 (PTI) A 57-year-old woman fell prey to an alleged "digital arrest" scam and lost over Rs 2.05 crore to cybercriminals, who posed as law enforcement officials, police said on Tuesday. 'Digital arrest' is a form of cyber fraud where fraudsters pose as law enforcement officers and threaten people through audio or video calls, forcing them to transfer money online. The woman was also coerced into selling multiple properties and taking bank loans to meet the fraudsters' demands, t ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president N Ramachander Rao has criticised chief minister A Revanth Reddy for his comments during the Congress protest held in Delhi, alleging that the chief minister's remarks appeared to support individuals who allegedly entered India illegally from Pakistan and Bangladesh and managed to obtain voter IDs. Speaking at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel death anniversary program at the BJP state office on Monday, December 15, Ramachander Rao questioned the Congress party's st ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 20 (PTI) Parents and friends of a Class 10 student who ended his life over alleged mental harassment by some teachers staged a protest outside the St Columba's school on Thursday, demanding strict action against the accused teachers and accountability from the private school. There was no immediate reaction from the school administration to the allegations. The victim student's aunt claimed the family had been unaware of the extent of his suffering. "He was depressed for so lon ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 20 (PTI) Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale on Thursday questioned how the UIDAI shared a list of 'deactivated' Aadhaar numbers from West Bengal with the Election Commission of India, and said they had previously claimed that such lists are not maintained. In a post on X, Gokhale, a Rajya Sabha MP from Trinamool Congress, alleged that the ECI is "collaborating with Modi government's UIDAI for vote chori". "A few days ago, it was reported that UIDAI (which issues Aadhaar) has sh ...Read More >
Rajasthan Vahan Chalak Admit Card 2025: The Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB) has officially released the admit cards for the Rajasthan Vahan Chalak (Vehicle Driver) Recruitment Exam 2025. Candidates who have applied for the RSSB Vehicle Driver posts can now download their hall tickets directly from the official website, rssb.rajasthan.gov.in.The Rajasthan Driver Exam 2025 will be conducted in a single shift on November 23rd. Candidates are advised to check all details on the admit card car ...Read More >
Kendrapara: In the wake of suspected Bangladeshi infiltrators being exposed in Jagatsinghpur district, police in Kendrapara have launched an intensive verification drive to trace individuals believed to have fled from the neighbouring district. Multiple blockades have been set up across Kendrapara, where police are checking Aadhaar cards and scrutinising passengers on buses. The verification exercise is underway in Duhuria, Rajnagar, Pattamundai, Mahakalpara and several other locations. The cr ...Read More >
Noida: Primary school teachers across the district have flagged that the ongoing booth-level officer (BLO) duties under the special intensive revision (SIR) drive have severely disrupted teaching activities in govt schools, leaving thousands of students without regular classroom instruction.Out of nearly 2,400 primary teachers catering to around 96,000 students, over 1,500 were assigned for BLO work as part of the voter verification exercise. Teachers account for a major share of the 1,868 BLOs ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Voters in the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency will go to the polls today in a high-stakes byelection that has become a prestige battle for the Congress, which hopes to wrest the seat from the BRS, while the BJP seeks to make electoral inroads in the city. Polling will be held from 7 am to 6 pm, with 58 candidates in the fray, though the main contest is between the three principal parties. The bypoll was necessitated by the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath. Chief Minister A. Reva ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Unsuccessful in stalling the SIR of Bihar electoral roll, the counsel for petitioners on Friday chose to argue the constitutional validity of Election Commission's decision to conduct a pan-India SIR and told SC that the challenge to the validity of CEC and other ECs (Appointment, Conditions of Officer and Terms of Office) Act, 2023, can wait.When advocate Prashant Bhushan and senior counsel Kapil Sibal sought urgent hearing of pleas questioning the legality of SIR, a bench of CJI-des ...Read More >
The Election authorities has issued an order mandating that all voters in the forthcoming Jubilee hills Assembly constituency by-election must produce... The Election authorities has issued an order mandating that all voters in the forthcoming Jubilee hills Assembly constituency by-election must produce their Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) at the polling station for identification before casting their votes. In cases where a voter is unable to produce the EPIC, one of the 12 approved alter ...Read More >
Jamshedpur: As Ghatshila gears up for the Assembly by-election scheduled on November 11, 2025, the District Election Office has reminded voters that they can cast their votes even if they do not possess their Voter Photo Identity Card (EPIC) on polling day. To ensure that no eligible voter is deprived of their democratic right, the Election Commission has allowed the use of 12 alternative photo-bearing identity documents for identification at polling stations. According to official instructions ...Read More >
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New Delhi: Indian Railways has introduced a new rule requiring Aadhaar authentication for online train ticket bookings made during morning hours on the IRCTC platform. According to the Railways Ministry, the measure aims to ensure that reservation benefits reach genuine passengers and to curb misuse by touts and other fraudulent entities. Effective October 28, 2025, only users whose Aadhaar details are verified will be allowed to book tickets between 8 AM and 10 AM on the first day of opening ...Read More >
Kolkata: Bengal BJP has decided to organise SIR help camps that would run simultaneously with the 1,000-odd camps the party has planned to assist people for registering under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.At a meeting with state functionaries last week, BJP's election-in-charge Bhupendra Yadav asked them to address issues related to the special intensive revision (SIR) at every possible platform."We saw how the opposition tried to spread fake stories in Bihar during SIR. Trinamool has already ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 3 (PTI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission's voters' list cleanup exercise, will commence in nine states and three Union territories from Tuesday. SIR in these states and Union territories with 51 crore voters will conclude on February 7, 2026, with the publication of the final electoral roll. After Bihar, this is the second round of SIR. The state's final voter list with nearly 7.42 crore names was published on September 30. The 12 states and Union terri ...Read More >
Pune: State general secretary of NCP (SP) Rohit Pawar on Thursday called the Mumbai police's action of registering an FIR against two unidentified people on charges of making a fake Aadhaar card of US President Donald Trump in Mumbai laughable. He said the BJP has been rampantly using fake documents to add bogus voters, but no action is being taken against it.On Oct 16, Rohit addressed a press conference where he gave a demonstration to claim that fake Aadhaar cards were being used for registeri ...Read More >
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