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NPS corpus touches Rs 14.4 lakh crore with 8.4 cr subscribers in FY 25: PFRDA chairman
L TO R- Deepak Mohanty, chairman,PFRDA , Nagaraju Maddirala,...
SC says no to plea for barring kids below 13 from using social media
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih, however,...
India to push back against ‘agenda-driven’ global ranking firms – Modi advisor
Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of Modi's Economic Advisory Council Sanjeev Sanyal,member of PM's Economic Advisory Council, said the ratings also get hard-wired into decision-making through environmental, social and governance (ESG) norms and sovereign ratings. Multilateral...
Census unlikely before Lok Sabha polls; citizens to be asked about smartphones, Internet, cereals
The questions in the Census include whether a family has a telephone line, Internet connection, mobile or smartphone, bicycle, scooter or motorcycle or moped, whether it owns a car, jeep or a van The citizens will also be asked what cereal they consume in the...
Centre told to inform outcome of consultations of draft rules to regulate e-pharmacies
Petitioner association South Chemists and Distributors Association, which has challenged the ministry’s August 2018 notification, said the draft rules are being pushed through in serious violation of the law, ignoring the health hazards caused due to sale of medicines...
Data protection bill to drive deep behavioural changes for platforms exploiting data: Chandrasekhar
''Those who have done it (misused data), tracked consumers, used cookies they certainly will have to go though deep behavioural change… Those who are already doing it right, have nothing to fear. But those who have, in a sense, lived off this model of exploitation...
Congress will ‘compel’ Centre to implement old pension scheme in entire country Rajasthan CM Gehlot
On April 6, the Union Finance Ministry set up a committee under Finance Secretary T V Somanathan to review the pension system for government employees. The committee would suggest whether in the light of the existing framework and structure of the National Pension...
Rights of consumers to safe internet can never be compromised: Min Chandrasekhar on accountability of Big Tech
Rajeev Chandrasekhar,Minister of Information Technology ''…it is a commitment that we have to the people of India…1.2 billion Indians who are going to use the Indian internet, that we will keep the internet open for them. We will deliver safety and trust on the...
Non-communicable diseases bigger issue than Covid pandemic: Apollo JMD
"Non-communicable disease is a larger pandemic than Covid. We must protect against cancer, cardiovascular, nephro, neuro problems," Apollo Hospitals Joint Managing Director Sangita Reddynoted Spread of non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart...
Climate change will speed up inflation in next decade, says ECB
Climate change poses risks to price stability by having an upward impact on inflation,” said the researchers Maximilian Kotz, Friderike Kuik, Eliza Lis and Christiane Nickel. That would “place global incomes under pressure from rising prices and could impact inflation...
PM asks states, districts to develop long-term vision to make India developed nation by 2047
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NITI Aayog’s eighth Governing Council meeting deliberated on several issues including, health, skill development, women empowerment and infrastructure development, with an aim to make India a developed nation by 2047 New Delhi: Prime...
Anti-tobacco warnings for OTT programmes soon, health ministry to amend rules
According to the proposed amendments to the Rules, the display of tobacco products or their use in online curated content will not be extended to the display of brands of cigarettes or other tobacco products. New Delhi: OTT platforms may soon be mandated to display...