News: Ministry of external affairs decided to rely on Aadhaar card for identification of the applicant for passport and on the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) database for validation of his/her criminal antecedents with the simplified police verification system. The home and law ministries, and the Intelligence Bureau, the government, on the ...

News: Irrigation fee will be waived for farmers living in 563 villages of Rajasthan’s 12 districts, whose crop was lost above 50% due to untimely hailstorm and rainfall. The Calamity and Relief department had declared 563 villages of the state under scarcity hit, and this order would be effective till ...

News: The government will infuse capital in public sector banks in the next three to six months. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has earmarked Rs 7,940 crore in the Budget for recapitalisation of public sector banks (PSBs) during the current financial year. In 2014-15, the government had injected Rs 6,990 crore ...