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Black Money Bill passed in LS

News Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to deal with black money stashed abroad. The bill provides for rigorous imprisonment of up to 10 years for offenders. Earlier, piloting the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015, finance minister Arun Jaitley said there would be short ...

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KV Kamath appointed BRICS bank president

News Eminent banker K V Kamath was today appointed as head of the USD 50 billion New Development Bank being set up by the five emerging economies of BRICS grouping. Kamath will have a five year term of the bank, which is likely to be operationalised within one year. Leaders ...

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23 Bangladeshis arrested in Tripura: Immigrants

News Police raided the house of one Kurban Ali at Melaghar and arrested 23 Bangladeshis for entering India without passport on Saturday. On interrogation, it was known that they had entered Melaghar from neighbouring Comilla district of Bangladesh in search of jobs and they were likely to go to Kashmir ...

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Modi launches 3 social security schemes

News About five crore five lakh people have enrolled themselves in the three new national social security schemes in the week before the official launch. A massive 80% of the country’s population is still outside the insurance coverage while the government estimated that merely 11% of the working population are under ...

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Saraswati river sprouts to life after 4,000 years

News Haryana government’s efforts to trace the origin of the mythical Saraswati river bore fruit on Tuesday when water started gushing out from a pit, which was being dug under the lost river revival plan. As many as 80 people who were digging the course of the Saraswati in Mugalwali ...

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Juvenile Justice Bill: Passed in LS

News The Lok Sabha has passed the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill that enables for trying juveniles between 16 and 18 years who have committed heinous crimes under laws for adults. The bill was passed after the government agreed to delete Clause7 which said, “any person, who ...

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Rs 980 crore outlay for National Smart Grid Mission: Approved

News The government has approved the National Smart Grid Mission with an outlay of Rs 980 crore. The mission will serve as an institutional mechanism for planning, monitoring and implementing policies and programmes related to the smart grid. Activity Development of smart grid and micro grids, consumer engagements, training and ...

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