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Nipah: Kerala to test samples of all persons in ‘high-risk’ contact list
State Health Minister Veena George said that there are 14 persons...
Govt not planning to levy any tax on diesel vehicles: Nitin Gadkari
Nitin Gadkari ,union minister, Ministry of road, transport and...
Crop insurance as ‘big’ a scam as Rafale: Uddhav Thackeray
“People have got cheques of Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 50, Rs 100. Allegations are being made that there is a scam of thousands of crores in the crop insurance scheme,” he said
Domestic airlines inducted 100 plus aircraft in 2018
Majority of the planes inducted by the carriers last year, according to available figures, were Airbus A320 neos, with four carriers – IndiGo, GoAir, Air India and Vistara – taking deliveries of more than 60 of these planes besides other types of aircraft.
At present, these carriers together have over 660 planes. Budget carrier IndiGo has 206 planes including A320 neos, while both Air India and Jet Airways have 125 and 124 aircraft, respectively, in their fleets.
Aadhaar savings can fund 3 schemes of the size of Ayushman Bharat: Jaitley
ince The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill was passed in 2016, in the last 28 months over 122 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued. About 99 per cent of the adult population of India above the age of 18 stands covered.
GST panel for Kerala levying 1% cess for 2 yrs to fund flood rehabilitation
The GST law provides for levy of special taxes for a specified period to raise additional resources during any natural calamity or disaster.
262 terror attacks killed 595 people in Pakistan in 2018: Report
“Balochistan was the only region where terrorism-related killings surged, by over 23 per cent, when compared to 2017; most of these fatalities resulted from attacks by religiously-inspired militant groups,” according to the report.
Around 171 attacks in entire Pakistan were perpetrated by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its splinter groups – Jamaatul Ahrar, Hizbul Ahrar and others, which killed 449 people.
Nationalist insurgent groups, mostly in Balochistan and a few in Sindh, carried out 80 attacks, martyring 96 people.
Skills gap puts $1.97 trillion growth at risk in India: Report
“We must offer more experiential on-the-job training and help people adopt life-long learning as their jobs are transformed. Digital tools and applications — like Artificial Intelligence, analytics and Blockchain — will be essential in delivering these new learning approaches,” said Rekha M Menon, Chairman and Senior Managing Director at Accenture in India
Modi govt plans ‘sanitised list’ of CAs & companies, to collect KYC details
Against 3.3 million individuals who had Director Identification Numbers (DINs), little over 1.6 million have complied with the KYC requirement. DIN is a unique number allotted to individuals who are eligible to have directorship on the boards of registered companies
Global debt reaches an all-time high of $184 trillion, 225 percent of GDP in 2017
On average, the world’s debt now exceeds $86,000 in per capita terms, which is more than 2½ times the average income per-capita.The most indebted economies in the world are also the richer ones. You can explore this more in the interactive chart below. The top three borrowers in the world—the United States, China, and Japan—account for more than half of global debt, exceeding their share of global output.
Senior care facilities & their Insurers try to keep up with Aging America’s falls
Falls are the biggest risk. Allegations of falls account for nearly half of all assisted living claims that insurer CNA Financial Group closed in 2016 and 2017, the company said.
Companies failing to comply with Aadhaar Act may be liable for up to Rs 1-crore fine
According to sources, the government is keen to give UIDAI regulatory powers, considering the fact that over 122 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued across the country but the authority does not currently have powers to take enforcement actions against errant entities.