Government policies
Rail fares up marginally from 1 January
02 Jan 2020
India to allow Huawei to participate in 5G network trials
31 Dec 2019
The in-principle nod for the trial run, however, does not assure an approval for commercial roll out by any operator or equipment supplier
Aadhaar enrollment touches 1.25 billion
27 Dec 2019
Union Bank of India, Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank to complete merger by 1 April 2020
23 Dec 2019
Rajya Sabha approves Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019
12 Dec 2019
Once signed into law by the President, the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 will provide a big relief to persecuted minorities who have fled from the three Muslim countries to seek refuge in India, but are still not entitled to Indian citizenship
Bharat Bond ETF to open on 12 December
10 Dec 2019
LS passes citizenship bill 311-80, at midnight
10 Dec 2019
The CAB aims at ensuring Indian citizenship for Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who have sought refuge in the country on grounds of religious persecution before 31 December 2014
New bill seeks to trim employee share in PF, take over CSR funds
09 Dec 2019
Over the long term, the government proposes to scrap EPFO and switchover to NPS, even as the amendments to the Social Security Code Bill 2019 provides for appropriating the corpus available from collections under corporate social responsibility to establish a social security fund
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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