Citizenship (Amendment) Bill: The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan under religious persecution

The Bill seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan escaping religious persecution there

According to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, non-Muslim refugees, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, escaping religious persecution there will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship

First phase of the five-phase polling for 13 constituenciesconcluded on November 30; the rest of the three phases will be held on December 12, 16 and 20

In the first three rounds, the ministry awarded 688 routes covering 106 airports and 31 heliports. As on October 31, just about one-third or 232 routes are operational

Air India reported a record loss of Rs 8,556.35 crore in 2018-19, compared to net loss of Rs 5,348.18 crore reported for 2017-18, says aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri

The Lok Sabha has already passed the bill, which will replace the ordinance promulgated on September 20, 2019, to cut the rate of base corporate tax to 22 per cent from 30 per cent

Ravi Shankar Prasad informed that cyber security mock drills are being conducted regularly to enable assessment of cyber security preparedness of organisations in the government and in critical sectors

Jitendra Singh said the government has started a web portal whereby RTI applications can be filed online by Indian citizens, including those who are living abroad

Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh together accounted for almost 62.9 per cent of the total value of completed projects in the quarter under review

During the two months, banks have given Rs 72,985 crore to MSME sector while loans to corporates stood at Rs 2.2 lakh crore

Responding to the bill, Minister of State for Home G Kishen Reddy said that the measure will help in strengthening administrative efficiency and fast track the development of the two union territories

As on November 28, 2019, the Central Processing Centre of Income Tax Department processed a total of 4.70 crore income tax returns during FY 2019-20

Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government's decision was also necessary to attract investment from multi-national companies, which are wanting to shift operations from China in view of ongoing Sino-US trade war

A total of around 37,83,055 voters, which includes 1,981,699 male, 18,01,356 female and five third gender, will decide the fate of 189 candidates in phase 1

Rituparna Chakraborty, Co-Founder & Senior Vice-President of TeamLease, cautions that this change in notification mechanism does not necessarily mean lesser administrative hassle or follow through for employers

Trade unions have raised several serious objections in the bill: from discretionary power of the executive to raising the threshold for lay-offs to making it virtually impossible to strike legally, restricting outsiders in the unorganised sector and extending fix term employment to the entire industry

Q2 GDP growth rate: India's swift growth is not only significant for the country but for the world economy too as India accounts for 7.7 per cent of the world GDP

The Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was passed by voice vote in Rajya Sabha. The bill got Lok Sabha's nod on November 20

The government has sought Rs 8,820.62 crore as grants for Union territories Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh in lieu of the erstwhile state's share of 14th Finance Commission Award