ITR-2 changes: Rich taxpayers will now have to give additional detailsThe tax department is seeking details of Legal Entity Identifier (LEI); any contributions made to political parties, including the date and...
03 Feb, 2024, 07.22 AM IST
94 lakh Unique Disability ID cards issued in India, just 9 in Bengal: Official dataAccording to the data shared by the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry, 94.30 lakh e-UDID cards have been generated in 716 districts i...
06 Jun, 2023, 04.56 PM IST
From April 1, UDID mandatory to avail benefits of government schemes for persons with disabilitiesThe schemes include post-matric scholarship for students with disabilities, pre-matric scholarship for such students, and Nirmaya Health In...
16 Mar, 2023, 08.32 PM IST
57.95 lakh Unique Disability ID cards issued across country: Union Minister Virendra KumarThe minister for social justice and empowerment said after the implementation of the Rights to Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, the cat...
14 Jan, 2023, 08.20 PM IST
No person can be forced to get vaccinated against their wishes: Centre to SCCOVID-19 inoculation guidelines issued by the Union Health Ministry do not envisage forcible vaccination without obtaining the consent of a...
17 Jan, 2022, 03.28 PM IST
Transgender bill highlight of social justice ministry in 2018All 34 international airports and 48 domestic airports in the country have been provided with accessible features such as ramps, accessible...
23 Dec, 2018, 01.05 PM IST
SBI's YONO suspends paperless a/c opening via Aadhaar, bank moves RBI on other optionsThe digital platform 'YONO', launched in November 2017, offers all financial services and lifestyle products.
18 Nov, 2018, 03.00 PM IST
What UIDAI chief told Supreme Court: 10 big pointsUIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey yesterday made a PowerPoint presentation in the Supreme Court to defend the government's ambitious Aadhaar sc...
23 Mar, 2018, 11.28 AM IST
Your Aadhaar may now get another strong layer of security -- your faceThe new feature will be allowed only in the fusion mode, which means it will have to go along with one or more authentication factor such a...
15 Jan, 2018, 06.39 PM IST
SEBI asks brokers to verify credentials of 107 unlisted companiesThe BSE has asked brokers to do the due diligence based on the auditor’s certificate.
12 Aug, 2017, 09.14 AM IST
Colour-coded cards to be launched for 2.7 crore disabledPM Narendra Modi to launch mega programme via video-conferencing in January in six states.
11 Dec, 2016, 11.25 PM IST
Aadhaar critical step in enabling fairer access: UNThe Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has already issued more than 108.27 crore Aadhaar numbers to the residents of India.
01 Dec, 2016, 02.04 PM IST
Disabilities bill amended, disability certificates to be valid across countryIf a disabled person changes place or gets married and shifts to a different state, he faces difficulty; new provision aims to solve it.
17 May, 2016, 04.21 PM IST
U-Win card to be scaled down to avoid overlap with AadhaarThe U-Win card, launched on a pilot basis in Gujarat last year by Modi, was to eventually replace the smart card issued under the Rashtriya...
09 May, 2016, 02.24 AM IST
Government notifies Aadhaar ActThe Centre has notified the new Aadhaar Act which gives the numbers assigned by it a statutory backing for transfer of subsidies and benefi...
28 Mar, 2016, 04.54 PM IST
Parliamentary panel 'dismayed' at lack of schemes for homeless people with disabilitiesParliamentary committee has expressed "dismay" at the lack of schemes for rehabilitation of homeless people with disabilities.
20 Mar, 2016, 12.48 PM IST
- Draft report on ID card for Persons with Disabilities complete
As per the Census 2011, around 26.8 million people, which is about 2.22 per cent of the total population, suffer from various disabilities ...
05 Oct, 2014, 01.54 PM IST