FM Nirmala Sithraman while insisted that there is no dispute between the some of the states and the Centre on the issue, she admitted the Council is yet to reach unanimity on the issue of plugging the compensation gap

FM Sitharaman on her part has put forth the suggestions but the discretion lies with states and private organisations. At least some of them are expected to offer similar benefits

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that the goods and services tax (GST) Council could not reach a consensus in the meeting on the issue of compensation

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman projected that the fresh stimulus would boost demand by Rs 73,000 crore during the remainder of FY21. However, experts do not rule out slippage in capex

India has learnt that growth in GDP does not automatically translate into growth in jobs and that GDP growth does not necessarily mean well-being of a vast majority of population. It needs to put these experiences into work and frame appropriate policy responses to the job crisis

The Rs 10,000 advance will come as a pre-paid Rupay card which can be spent by March 31, 2021. The repayment will be in 10 instalments

Females are bigger victims of modern slavery as compared to males in Asia and Pacific (73 per cent), in Africa (71 per cent), in Europe and Central Asia (67 per cent) and in America (63 per cent), as per the UN report

For boosting consumer spending, the government today announced special tax exemption for Central government employees, who get Leave Travel Concessions (LTC) in a block of 4 years leave encashment of 10 days

Universities and schools across the country were ordered shut on March 16 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that under the Special Festival Advance scheme will be available up to March 31, 2021 and will be given as a prepaid RuPay card

In August, the Centre gave two options to the states to borrow either Rs 97,000 crore from a special window facilitated by the Reserve Bank of India or Rs 2.35 lakh crore from the market

Centre offers interest-free 50-year loans to States for capital expenditure for Rs 12,000 crores, consisting of three components, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

The economic crisis following the pandemic and untimely national lockdown have been used by both the central and state governments to push through unilateral measures that undermine workers' interest by dismantling critical protections

Multiplex chains including PVR, Inox, Cinepolis and Mukta A2 Cinemas are all set to re-open their cinema halls from October 15 with half of their seating capacity

Thackeray said the government had earlier declared 600 acre of Aarey land as forest but now it has been revised to 800 acre

PM Modi to launch SVAMITVA scheme: It will be implemented in a phased manner over four years and will eventually cover 6.62 lakh villages across the country

Coronavirus pandemic: Record high daily infections in several eastern European countries and sharp rebounds in the hard-hit west have made clear that Europe never really crushed the COVID-19 curve as hoped

Rajasthan Congress Chief Govind Singh Dotasra said that at a time when the Centre should work to eliminate coronavirus infection, \"it is working to finish farmers from the country\"

The Election Commission has reduced maximum number of campaigners for the recognised parties to 30 while for the unrecognised parties it would be not more than 20 in view of coronavirus pandemic

This year, CAT will be conducted in test centres spread across around 156 test cities and candidates will be given the option to select any six test cities in order of their preference