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Telcos, businesses spar over calls, SMS consent regimeTelecom companies and banks are in a dispute over India's new digital consent rules for commercial messages. Major telecom players want con...- Free airport lounge access via credit cards is getting tougher as banks tighten entry rules, set minimum spending criteriaThe logic is simple: lounge access has become a heavily used perk. Banks earlier assumed that only premium customers or frequent flyers wou...
- Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu writes to Centre over shrimp feed price hike, seeks relief for aquaculture farmersAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has urged the Union Agriculture Minister to address rising shrimp feed prices. The state ...
- India’s invisible workforce gets a new safety net: Key labour reforms for migrant employees decodedIndia's inter-state migrant workers gain significant protections under new labour code rules notified on May 8, 2026. The Occupational Safe...
- China vows countermeasures if EU enacts 'Made in Europe' planThe EU unveiled in March new "Made in Europe" rules for companies trying to access public funds in strategic sectors including cars, green ...
- Government keeps selling price of PDS grains unchanged for 1 more year: Ram Vilas PaswanFoodgrains via ration shops are supplied at a highly subsidised rate of Rs 3/kg for rice, Rs 2/kg for wheat and Rs 1/kg for coarse grains v...
- Petrol price hike: OMCs to bear the brunt?The government may ask the fuel retailers to absorb any such increases if global crude price edges higher, the government official, who did...
- Government won't hike PDS foodgrain prices for another year: Ram Vilas PaswanUnder the NFSA, which was passed in 2013 during the previous UPA regime, there is a provision for revision of the issue prices of foodgrain...
- Government releases Rs 24,250 crore to FCI as food subsidy till April 29The law aims at providing legal entitlement to 5 kg of subsidised foodgrains per person per month at Rs 1-3/kg to two-thirds of the country...
- No plan to increase food handouts: Food Minister Ram Vilas PaswanPaswan had said the government wanted to hike monthly handouts of food grains like rice by 40 percent from the current five kilogrammes per...
- Food subsidy to touch Rs 1.31 lakh crore on implementing food lawLast year, Parliament passed the Food Security Act that gave legal entitlement to highly subsidised foodgrains to two-thirds of India's pop...
- National Food Security Act a landmark legislation, says IMFThe Food Security Act (FSA) proposes to cover up to 75 per cent of the rural population and up to 50 per cent of the urban population.
- Food law an extension of existing welfare scheme: KV ThomasThomas today said the food law, which aims to give legal right to subsidised foodgrain to the poor, is an extension of existing welfare sch...
- Goa govt mulls giving subsidy to private transporters in stateGoa govt is working on a proposal to provide subsidy to private transporters, who suffered losses because of KTC's subsidised pass system.
- Indian Railways need many kinds of modernisation, not just fare hikesSam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister, has reportedly recommended raising passenger fares and linking rail tariffs to inflation from n...
- Food Minister K V Thomas, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to discuss executing part of draft Food BillUnder the draft National Food Security Bill, the Centre has proposed to give a legal entitlement to subsidised foodgrains to both BPL and A...
- SC orders government to ensure no starvation deaths, asks to allocate 5 million tonnes of food grainsThe Supreme Court today directed the Centre to allocate additional five million tonnes of food grains to 150 poorest districts of the count...
- Exit tax on graduates is not a good ideaThe exchequer subsidises these students who then go on to earn substantial sums by working for multinationals abroad and the Indian exchequ...
- Cashless medical facilities to be extended to govt employeesCashless medical facilities may no longer be an exclusive privilege for private sector employees.
- Subsidised kerosene for BPL families onlyThe government has decided to initiate a pilot project in Bihar where subsidised kerosene will be targeted at BPL families.
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