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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarEconomic Survey: More people now opt for a pension of Rs1000 per month
As on September 2021, around 78 per cent subscribers have opted for Rs 1000 per month pension amount, as compared to 38 per cent subscribers as on March 2016 The share of subscribers opting for Rs 2000/`Rs 3000/Rs 4000 per month pension is 8 per cent, while 14 per...
Economic Survey showcases development using satellite, geo-spatial images
A new chapter, 'Tracking Development through Satellite Images and Cartography', demonstrates the use of satellite and geo-spatial images to gauge various economic phenomenon such as urbanisation, infrastructure, environmental impact and farming practices, among...
Economic Survey: India lags behind global average in non-life penetration
As of 2020, the penetration for life insurance in India is 3.2 per cent and nonlife insurance penetration is 1 per cent New Delhi: Though, India is at par with international average in terms of insurance penetration for life insurance, the country lags behind in...
Budget 2022-23: Widening Health Covers
Satish Gidugu, CEO, Medi Assist Healthcare Services There is a need to reduce the GST rates on insurance premiums, allow input credit on GST paid towards employee health insurance and eliminate perquisite tax on employee medical reimbursements The COVID-19 pandemic...
MCA Secy Rajesh Verma gets addl charge of DFS
The government has given Rajesh Verma, secretary, ministry of corporate affairs the additional charge of department of financial services(DFS) after Debasish Panda retired as the secretary, DFS on Monday. Panda has been heading the DFS since March 2020.
LIC revises annuity rates for Jeevan Akshay and New Jeevan Shanti
Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) has revised its annuity rates for Jeevan Akshay and New Jeevan Shanti with effect from 1st Feb 2022.The modified version of these plans with revised annuity rates shall be available for sale from 1st Feb .The annuity amount under both...
Investors’ wealth jumps over Rs 3.33 lakh cr as markets rally
Vinod Nair, head of research at Geojit Financial Services, said taking positive cues from global markets and favourable takeaways from the Economic Survey report, the market rallied ahead of the Budget day Mumbai: Investors' wealth on Monday gained over Rs 3.33 lakh...
Economic Survey: Climate finance will remain critical to successful climate action:
According to the survey, India's performance on the NITI Aayog SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) India Index has improved from an overall score of 60 in 2019-20 to 66 in 2020-21. It said the figures "show progress" in India's journey towards achieving the SDGs New...
Economic Survey:Health sector expenditure in 2021-22 projected to be 73 per cent higher than 2019-20
The latest NFHS-5 shows that Total Fertility Rate (TFR), an average number of children per women, has further come down to 2 in 2019-21 from 2.2 in 2015-16. Sex ratio, number of females per 1000 males, in the total population has risen from 991 females in 2015-16...
Economic Survey: India needs infra investment of $1.4 trn to reach $5 tlr GDP by FY25
The Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) which is responsible for the appraisal of PPP projects has cleared 66 projects with a total project cost of Rs 1,37,218 crore from 2014-15 to 2020-21 New Delhi: In order to achieve USD 5 trillion GDP by FY'25,...
Govt to spend Rs 64,000 crore under Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission: Prez
President Ram Nath Kovind The small farmers of the country have also benefited from the new changes in the crop insurance scheme. More than Rs one lakh crore have been given as compensation to about eight crore farmers since these changes were introduced President Ram...
Economic Survey projects growth at 8-8.5% in FY2022-23
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman The gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Economic Survey that details the state of the economy ahead of the government's Budget for...
‘Bengaluru among 10 southern cities exceeding WHO air quality guidelines’
The primary contributors to worsening the air quality are fossil fuel-powered infrastructural development, industries, transport, waste burning, and construction activity. Chronic exposure to air pollution increases the likelihood of asthma, low birth weight,...
No ‘moral policing’ if 2 adults staying together willingly by marriage or live-in relationship: MP HC
The HC in its order said, “No moral policing can be allowed in such matters where the two major persons are willing to stay together whether by way of marriage or in a live-in relationship, when the party to that arrangement is doing it willingly and not forced into...
Govt mandates storage of ISD, satphone, message details, others for 2 yrs
"The licensee shall maintain all commercial records, call data record, exchange detail record, IP detail record with regard to the communications exchanged on the network. Such records shall be archived for at least two years for scrutiny by the licensor for security...
Each dose of Covishield, Covaxin likely to be capped at Rs 275 after getting regular market approval
As of now, Covaxin is priced at Rs 1,200 per dose while Covishield costs Rs 780 in private facilities. The prices include Rs 150 service charge New Delhi: The price of Covishield and Covaxin, the Covid vaccines which are expected to soon get regular market approval...
COVID-19: NeoCov’s potential danger to humans requires further study, says WHO
"It is only one mutation away from becoming dangerous for humans," researchers said in a paper posted on preprint website bioRxiv, and not peer-reviewed yet. However, according to the WHO, the question of whether the NeoCov coronavirus, recently discovered in bats in...
Global gold demand rises 10% to 4,021 tonnes in 2021: WGC
"The demand for the yellow metal was mainly driven by Central bank buying during the fourth quarter of 2021, recovery in jewellery consumption, mainly in India and China," WGC Regional CEO, India, Somasundaram PR told PTI Mumbai: Global gold demand rose 10 per cent to...