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News: The sub-group of chief ministers on skill development will submit its final report to the Prime Minister’s Office within 15 days, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said. It’s also suggested that the 50 per cent of a corporate social responsibility fund should be used for skill development and ...

News: The government has accepted the long-pending demand of workers to declare second and fourth Saturdays holidays, with effect from September 1. Source: TOI

News: Creating a plethora of opportunities for the citizens and generating employment, nearly 41,000 jobs have been created under the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme in the current fiscal till July 16. The General Category beneficiaries, under the scheme, can avail of margin money subsidy of 25 per cent of ...

News: To attract talent, the government think-tank NITI Aayog has proposed paying over 30 per cent more than the pay scale offered by the erstwhile Planning Commission to young professionals on its payrolls. NITI Aayog has replaced the decades-old Planning Commission and is being seen as one of the most ambitious ...

News: IAS officers of the 2013 batch reporting for a 3-month training module in Delhi before joining their respective state cadres have been told not to take any leave during the training period and informed that Joint Secretary level officers in 39 Ministries will be their “mentors” during the special ...

News: A step towards the fight for black money, Rs 6,500 crore of undisclosed foreign assets have been declared under the complains window of the new law and the drive would continue despite its ‘side effects’. In his address to the nation on the 69th Independence Day, he said several important steps including agreements ...

News: PM has promised to provide electricity to 18,500 villages the country in the next 1,000 days. The officials instead claimed that they can do it only by 2019, but PM said that the country is not ready to wait that long, s finally  team India pledges today that power will reach ...

News: A large part of the PM’s speech focused on the government drive to tackle corruption. Modi also referred to the functioning of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team to crack down on black money. New schemes to link all public and private investments to additional creation of jobs and ...

News: PM’s speech on the independence day was focused on giving a report card of the first 15 months of his governments, although his comments on corruption and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registering a record number of cases since May 2014 are significant in the context of the ...

Speech Highlights Issue of ‘One-Rank, One-Pension’ came up in front of every government. Some even made small promises. Issue could not be solved. I assure the servicemen and I am saying it under the Tricolour from the Red Fort – we have accepted OROP. We are looking at systems for ...