Government policies
Centre hikes dearness pay of employees, pensioners by 6 percentage points to 125%
23 Mar 2016
The dearness pay hike that will benefit 5 million employees and 5.8 million pensioners will cost the exchequer over Rs14,725 crore during a 14 month period from 1 January 2016
Plastic waste norms tightened; fresh onus on producers
19 Mar 2016
Notifying the new Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, the Centre has put greater responsibility on producers to collect back plastic waste
Lok Sabha passes Aadhaar bill, rejects RS amendments
17 Mar 2016
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Aadhaar bill with five amendments that the opposition insisted on, but these have all been rejected when the bill returned to the lower house