The Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Friday (February 28 2025) retained an interest rate of 8.25 per cent on employees’ provident fund (EPF) deposits for 2024-25, sources said. After the CBT’s decision, the interest rate on EPF deposits for 2024-25 will be sent to the Ministry of […]
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is planning to temporarily shift the famous French museum housed in Dupleix Palace in the erstwhile French colony of Chandannagar in West Bengal to carry out conservation and restoration after parts of its false ceiling and chunks of plaster fell down late last year. People as well as artefacts […]
An area of 9,990.96 sq km in southern Tamil Nadu’s deep sea region of the Gulf of Mannar has been included in a recent tender for hydrocarbon exploration issued by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. This is a part of the Ministry’s 10th round of the Open Acreage Licensing Policy, which invites companies […]
Former Minister C. Vijayabaskar on Thursday criticised the DMK government over the launch of Mudhalvar Marundhagams, stating that they were only a replica of Amma Marundhagams launched by the erstwhile AIADMK government. He urged the DMK government to list its achievements, and accused it of shutting down the ‘Amma Mini Clinics’ as well. He also […]
The Ananda Vikatan group, in a statement on Thursday (February 27, 2025), vowed to take action “to both defend freedom of expression and restore access to the [Vikatan magazine’s] website”, indicating possible legal action. The magazine has resisted an order by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to take down a cartoon featuring Prime Minister […]
U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent allegations of $21 million in USAID having been handed over to India for influencing the 2024 general election had led to a war of words between the Congress and the BJP. Against this backdrop, All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged that the BJP and its affiliates were […]
In July 2023, mango farmers in the undivided Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh had just wrapped up their harvest. The yield was dismally low, but the growers had faith in the demand-supply equation, certain that a crunch would push up the prices. When the time came for them to sell their produce, the dozen or […]
Shiv Sena UBT leader Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday (February 27, 2025) slammed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and yet again termed him a ‘traitor’. “I have respect towards Ganga. I believe in ‘Namami Gange’. But if I take ‘50 boxes’ [₹50 crore], and then take a dip in the river, what’s the use? The […]
Sitting on a beige velvet sofa in his two-storey house at Lopoke village in Punjab’s Amritsar district, Vishal Sharma, 38, turns the pages of his passport, tracing the stamps of various countries with his fingers. He looks longingly out of his window at a replica of the Statue of Liberty in his village bordering Pakistan. […]
Chinese Defence Ministry on Thursday (February 27, 2025) said the militaries of India and China are implementing the resolutions to end the standoff in eastern Ladakh in a “comprehensive and effective manner”. “At present, the Chinese and Indian militaries are implementing the resolutions related to the border areas in a compressive and effective manner,” Chinese […]
