Alert for CXOs and Directors: Acting as authorised signatory for a foreign company now requires PAN, address & more details under Income Tax Rules, 2026New Income Tax Rules, 2026 mandate that Indian employees acting as authorised signatories for foreign companies must now provide their PAN,...
24 Apr, 2026, 02.12 PM IST
Updated Indian Railways rules for Divyangjan: PwDs with UDID cards can travel in these unreserved coachesIndian Railways has permitted Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) holding valid UDID cards to travel in unreserved Divyangjan coaches on mail/...
21 Apr, 2026, 12.47 PM IST
ECI allows 12 alternative photo IDs apart from EPIC for voting; announces special arrangements for 'purdanasheen' womenVoters without their Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) can now use 12 alternative government-approved IDs to cast their ballot. The Elect...
10 Oct, 2025, 10.11 AM IST
Waqf Bill committed to preserving Waqf properties, Parliament to pass it in coming days: Amit ShahUnion Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, aimed at managing and preserving Waqf properties, will soon be pass...
17 Sep, 2024, 03.24 PM 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
Credit, debit cards' online use facility to be disabled by March 16, 2020, if never used till thenCardholders now have only time till March 16 to use such cards for online.
09 Mar, 2020, 04.24 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
Mobile Aadhaar can now be used to enter airportsIf a passenger is not able to furnish one of the ten documents, then there is also an option to provide an identity certificate issued by a...
28 Oct, 2017, 12.50 PM 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
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
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
- Health insurance for BPL unorganised sector workers from Oct 2
In keeping with the promise made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his Independence Day address, the Government will launch on October tw...
30 Sep, 2007, 09.30 AM IST