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56% Indians regularly talk to people with opposing views: Survey
Amid allegations of "intolerance" of diverse opinions in the country, a new survey for the BBC's Crossing Divides season has found that 56 per cent Indians profess to have conversations with people with opposing views on issues like politics, climate change, immigration and feminism at least once a week.
PM-SYM pension scheme launched in Nagaland
The Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan Yojana (PM-SYM) pension scheme for unorganised workers was launched in Nagaland on Tuesday, officials said. Launching the PM-SYM in the state Nagaland Chief Secretary, Temjen Toy, said many similar schemes were launched in the past but unfortunately the Nagas were not able to take advantage of those schemes. He said the Labour and Employment Department is the nodal department and every individual and department need to spread awareness of the scheme to our people for the benefit of greater section of our people who are in the unorganised sectors. The PM-SYM is voluntary and periodic contribution based pension system meant for unorganised workers with income up to Rs 15,000 per month and eligibility criteria age between 18-40 years. This scheme provides for a fixed pension of Rs 3000 after attaining the age of 50 years on a monthly contribution of a small affordable amount during their working age.
Why not stop NRIs who abandoned their wives from contesting
In a reference to the government cancelling passports of 45 non-resident Indians for abandoning their wives, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Tuesday said why not also stop them from contesting elections. "Why only cancel passports? Why not stop them from contesting elections? Why not bar them from holding Constitutional posts?" he said in a tweet tagging a media report on the cancellation of passports of the NRIs. "In a lighter vein, jiska apna ghar hi banjar ho wo dusro ka kya aabaad karenge? (those whose house itself is waste (land), how can they populate others"," Owaisi added. Announcing the cancellation, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has said the Integrated Nodal Agency which looked into the matter has been issuing Look-Out Circulars to absconding husbands in cases of NRI marriages and 45 passports have been impounded by the External Affairs Ministry. The agency is chaired by secretary in the women and child development ministry, Rakesh ...
Google pays women more than men in one job category
Google is paying more to women employees than men in the "Level 4 Software Engineer" category, according to an internal study.
Autosexual writer plans to marry self
Ghia Vitale, an autosexual and autoromantic who got engaged to herself in March 2017, is all set to tie the knot soon, media reports said.
West Bengal govt stalled enrolment in pension scheme: Gangwar
Union minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar Tuesday claimed the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has stalled enrolment of workers under the Centre's new pension scheme for unorganised sector. The Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan Yojana, aimed at providing a monthly pension of Rs 3,000 to unorganised workers, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday. Speaking at the launch event, Gangwar said the scheme was being launched across the country through over two lakh common service centres, where unorganised workers can get themselves enrolled. "Every state is participating in the scheme with great enthusiasm. Though we set a target of enrolling 11.5 lakh workers on the national launch day, over 14.5 lakh have already registered," said the minister of state (independent charge) for labour and employment. "It seems the West Bengal government is not concerned about the workers' welfare. All our (enrolment) centres in West Bengal are shut today. This is very ...
Bihar Cabinet approves 3 per cent hike in dearness allowance
The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday hiked the dearness allowance of state government employees and pensioners by three per cent. Following the revision, the DA rate is now 12 per cent with effect from January 1, 2019, Cabinet Secretariat Department's Principal Secretary, Sanjay Kumar, said. Kumar said the enhancement in the allowance would have an additional annual burden of Rs 1,100.94 crore on the state exchequer. The cabinet also gave its nod for the Home Department's proposal to install CCTVs in Patna district, under the 'Safe City Surveillance' project. The Rs 110-crore project is aimed to check and contain crimes, including eve-teasing and harassment of women at public places, Kumar said. The creation of posts -- both teaching and non- teaching -- in newly-created government engineering and polytechnic colleges also got a go-ahead from the cabinet.
Life & Money and The Garrett Planning Network USA Announce Their First in a Series of Roadshows to Celebrate International Women's Day
/ -- The International Women's Day weekend 2019, promises to be exciting for women in Bangalore who wish to embark on a career and wellness journey, enabling them to lead a healthy, wealthy, happy and meaningful life. (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/822614/Life_and_Money_Logo.jpg ) (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/830874/women_financial_advisers_network_Logo.jpg ) Life & Money in collaboration with The Garrett Planning Network USA, welcomes women audience to The Women Financial Advisers Network Roadshows. 1st Roadshow: Caters to an audience of primarily young women, keen to return to a flexi option career after a sabbatical. Date: March 09, 2019 Venue: Elita Promenade Clubhouse, J P Nagar Time: 10 AM - 1 PM 2nd Roadshow: Caters to tenured professional women across finance and corporate spectrums; women who are seeking alternate careers and those looking to giving back to the community. Date: March 11, 2019 Venue: 91 SpringBoard, George Thangaiah Complex, 80 Feet ...
Ahmedabad: PM Modi launches Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan, interacts with beneficiaries
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan (PM-SYM) - a pension scheme for the unorganised sector.Interacting with beneficiaries at Ahmedabad's Vastral, the Prime Minister said there are more than 40 crore people who can avail the benefits of this scheme."This is a good scheme. If something happened to you, your family member can either take the money with interest or can join the scheme. Our government is working in such a way that you can live your life without worry," he said.Prime Minister Modi went on to say: "There are more than 40 crore people in the country including maids, farmers, those employed under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employee Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) who can avail the benefits of this scheme. This is our responsibility to tell people that this is your money and will be there even.""Some people may be telling you if you deposit money in the scheme, you will get nothing. But this is a national scheme and you don't ...
PM Narendra Modi launches Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana
Scheme will assure a monthly pension of Rs 3000 for the enrolled unorganized sector workers during their old age
PMSYM pension scheme subscription to cross one crore mark soon: Prasad
The numbers of subscribers for Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan (PM-SYM), which provides assured monthly pension of Rs 3,000 to informal workers, would soon cross one crore mark, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Tuesday. According to the labour ministry portal, as many as 10.95 lakh workers have already subscribed to the pension scheme. As many as 2.36 lakh common service centres are facilitating subscription of the scheme across 36 states in the country. The scheme was announced in the interim Budget by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, providing Rs 527 crore for the scheme. It was made available for subscription to informal sector workers on February 15, 2019. Prasad expressed hope that the country wide launch of the scheme will help in encouraging more and more unorganised sector workers to subscribe the plan. He was addressing at a state level function to launch the PM-SYM in the presence of Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan. Earlier in the
Octogenarian farmer kills self by jumping into burning crop
An 85-year-old farmer from Nagpur district in Maharashtra allegedly committed suicide last week by setting his crop on fire and jumping into it, police said Tuesday. Police suspect the farmer, Gopal Jaane took the extreme step due to recurring health issues. The incident occurred on March 1 evening when Jaane allegedly set the pigeon pea crop on fire at his farm in Madna village, and jumped into it, an official release stated. When contacted, Jalalkheda police station inspector GR Tambe said, "As per preliminary investigation, the deceased farmer had some health issues. He was suffering from a kidney problem". Quoting villagers and kin of Jaane, the police officer said the farmer had tried to kill himself in the past as well. Police are awaiting postmortem report, and have registered a case of accidental death.
Hotels at centre of rape allegations promoted on TripAdvisor
Hotels around the world at the centre of sexual assault allegations are continuing to be promoted on TripAdvisor, despite some complainants contacting the largest travel company to warn them of alleged attacks by staff members, the media reported on Tuesday.
Poverty state of mind for those unused to sleeping hungry: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday targeted Congress president Rahul Gandhi over poverty, saying only those oblivious to sleeping hungry at night can think that it is a state of mind. For some, poverty is just an opportunity to click photos, Modi said, sharpening his attack on the Congress chief. He was speaking after launching the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Mandhan Yojana, a pension scheme for unorganised sector. "This scheme is aimed at uplift of the section of society which has been ignored and left at the mercy of God. They (Congress) gave slogans of garibi hatao (end poverty). Some projected themselves as messiah of workers. But during their tenure they did not launch such a scheme, he said. "They ruled the country for 55 years and collected votes in the name of poor," he said. "They thought that poverty is a mental state. See how is this neta who says that there is nothing like poverty but a mental state," Modi said, targeting the Congress president. "For them ...
GSP benefit withdrawal by US will not have much impact on India's exports: Commerce secy
India Tuesday said the US government's move to withdraw duty concessions on certain products under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) programme will not have a significant impact on exports to America as the benefits were only about USD 190 million annually. Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan said despite the fact that India was working on an "extensive and reasonable" trade package, the US has decided to go ahead with its decision to scrap the preferential trade benefit after 60 days. The package was covering all concerns related to bilateral trade with the US on sectors including medical devices, dairy products and agricultural goods, he said adding that India could not negotiate issues concerning interests of public healthcare. India exported goods worth USD 5.6 billion under GSP last year, but "our total GSP benefits were to the tune of only USD 190 million, the secretary told reporters here. He said "the benefits in absolute sense and a percentage of trade involved are ...
SC issues notice to Centre, Assam govt on plea challenging Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the central and Assam governments on a petition challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which seeks to provide citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014.The top court asked the Centre and the state government to respond within four weeks.It was hearing a plea filed by Assam State Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind challenging the Union Home Ministry's notifications in the matter.The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on January 8.On February 13, the Bill lapsed in the Rajya Sabha, amid protests by members of several Opposition parties.The proposed amendment in the Bill will make these persecuted migrants eligible to apply for citizenship. Under the proposed amendment, the minimum residency period for citizenship is being reduced from the existing 12 years under the present law to seven years.However, citizenship will be given to them only after due ...
Mexican-American woman wins Trump supporters on social media
A Mexican-American woman has attracted about 70,000 followers on her social media accounts, which she created in support of President Donald Trump as he was "a needed leader to end the destruction of the US".
Kolkata-based documentary filmmaker hangs himself
A 48-year-old documentary filmmaker from Kolkata hanged himself, apparently due to depression, police said on Monday.
Main agenda of govt to check corruption, illegal immigrants,
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Monday said the main agenda of his government was to check corruption, illegal immigrants, insurgents and pollution. "... the BJP led government has come to power on four point agenda - a state free from corruption, illegal immigrants, insurgents and pollution - ... the state government is working vigorously to achieve this target", Sonowal said. He claimed that his government has succeeded to augur an investor friendly climate in state. "The Congress government ruled for 55 years in Delhi and Dispur (Assam), and failed to put the growth trajectory of the state into fast momentum," claimed Sonowal while laying the foundation stone of a Rs 100 crore Formalin plant at Boitamari in Bongaigaon district. "The state government for the last two years and 10 months has been working relentlessly to embrace people belonging to all caste, community, creed and ethnicity," he said. The chief minister said construction of the project will be ..
'Momo is dead', says creator of sick sculpture behind viral social media game
Creator of the freakish Mother Bird announced that the artwork has been destroyed after it rotted away. The horror artwork was associated with a viral social media game that was allegedly linked with a number of teen suicides.Although the creation was 'never meant to last', sculptor Keisuke Aiso, 43, said that he felt responsible for terrifying children after his work was used by malicious scammers in the so-called 'Momo Challenge,' The Sun reported.Mother Bird was made out of rubber and natural oils, showcasing a freakish face of a woman with huge bulgy eyes and a large mouth.Keisuke said that parents can now reassure their children that Momo is dead and that with it, the curse is also gone.The ghoulish figure was used on social media to issue horrific threats, induce curiosity among children and challenge them to carry out tasks, with some including self-harm.
