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Govt extends Amnesty Scheme under ESIC for three month till December 31The ‘New Amnesty Scheme 2025’, rolled out on October 1, 2025, is a one-time dispute resolution initiative aimed at reducing the backlog of ...
EPFO plans to invest in startups, AIFs five years after govt approvalThe Employees Provident Fund Organisation is working on guidelines for investing in alternative investment funds for better portfolio diver...
Railway employees to get Rs 17,591 annual bonus: But why other central government employees get just Rs 6,908Indian Railway annual bonus: The central government has announced a Productivity Linked Bonus for non-gazetted Railway employees for FY 202...
NPS investment in startups: AINPSEF writes to PM Modi seeking probe and asks for dissolution of NPS TrustManjeet Singh Patel has alleged serious financial irregularities concerning the National Pension System Trust. He has requested a high-leve...
EPF withdrawals made easier for PF members but this impacts your retirement corpusRecent relaxations in EPF withdrawals allowed easy liquidity to cash-starved members, but it is advisable to resist this temptation and not...
Budget initiatives will increase disposable income, boost spending: Retail industryBudget proposals including duty cuts, personal income tax exemptions, and higher standard deductions aim to boost consumption and the econo...
Is India suffering from an unemployment issue? PM Modi says the country is generating jobsPrime Minister Narendra Modi defended his government's job creation efforts, citing a significant increase in taxpayers and EPFO subscriber...
DPIIT organises workshop on funds for startupsThe Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Secretary Anurag Jain chaired the workshop, which was organised as part...
EPFO wants to ease pressure on pension fundsEPFO must vastly improve its fund management, and ensure robust governance. Over 85% of its corpus - at about ₹12 lakh crore - is invested ...
Sovereign green bonds may need to be more attractiveSince 2015, only a handful of companies, such as Yes Bank and CLP Wind Farms, sold just about ₹4,100 crore or $625 million of green bonds i...
A welcome shift in retirement savingsThe EPFO will have the option to invest in AIFs whose corpus is equal to or more than ₹100 crore, with maximum exposure to a single AIF cap...
PFRDA chief wants a fix on startup valuations before using pension money to fund themOn the performance of National Pension System (NPS), Bandyopadhyay said retail sector participation in NPS has reached a subscriber base of...
Right Venture, LIC and EPFOIf more startups could be funded, the number of successes could climb. And LIC and EPF would secure higher returns for those who have put t...
Government keen on allowing pension, insurance funds into startupsThe Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is in talks with the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and ...
EPFO can invest up to 5% in alternate investment funds to support infra pushThe EPFO manages more than Rs 12 lakh crore of retirement savings of over six crore subscribers. The new investment pattern will be effecti...
Private PFs can invest up to 5% of surplus in AIFs that back MSMEsThe EPFO manages more than Rs 12 lakh crore of retirement savings but the changes in the investment pattern announced by the finance minist...
Budget 2021: Is it now time for LIC, EPFO to invest in Indian startups?The government has started deliberations on allowing domestic pension and insurance funds to invest in Indian startups. While the idea isn’...
PEs, VCs want pension fund money in startup fundsIndia’s EPFO, which has a corpus in excess of Rs 10 lakh crore, is allowed to invest in government debt, corporate debt and public sector u...
The policy hack: Time for Indian sovereign funds to wake upAs per research data company, Preqin, venture capital funding in Asia touched about $20.7 Billion in 2017. Preqin, in a special report on S...
Government wants LIC to prop up startups with fundsThe Small Industrial Development Bank of India is implementing the Fund of Funds. “We want to fast-track it, processes are rather slow. We ...