Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday will brief the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Delhi violence which claimed the lives of 17 people so far.
The data for National Population Register was collected in 2010 along with the house-listing phase of Census of India 2011. The data was updated in 2015 by conducting door-to-door survey. The digitisation of the updated information has been completed.
The NPR will be prepared at the local (village/sub-Town), sub-district, district, state and national level under provisions of the Citizenship Act 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.
The rise in onion prices could have been controlled if the export ban on the vegetable had been implemented earlier. The state elections in Maharashtra and the stance of opposition parties in criticising the ban only made the situation worse.
Bharat Bond ETF will provide additional money for CPSUs, CPSEs & other government organizations. The ETF will be a basket of bonds issued by CPSE/CPSU/CPFI or any govt organisations and will be tradable on stock exchanges. Each unit will be priced at ₹1,000. The Bharat Bond ETF will loosely resemble a fixed maturity plan.
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there, sources said on Wednesday.
"The Union Cabinet approved the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FC) to submit its first report for the first fiscal year viz. 2020-21 and to extend the tenure of XV-FC to provide for the presentation of the final report covering FYs 2021-22 to 2025-26 by October, 31, 2020," an official statement said.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved strategic disinvestment in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) along with transfer of management control, excluding stake in Numaligarh Refinery. The decision was announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today.
7th Pay Commission: In great news, Cabinet on Wednesday approves 78 days of bonus for Indian Railways employees, under 7th Pay Commission recommendation, said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday. According to reports, Rs 2024 crore will be spent on this exercise and around 11 lakh employees will be benefited.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave approval to ban e-cigarettes in India. The production, manufacturing, import/export, transport, sale, distribution, storage and advertising related to e-cigarettes hereby stands banned.
Banning alternative smoking devices like e-cigarettes, heat-not-burn smoking devices, vape and e-nicotine flavoured hookahs was among the key priorities of the first 100 days agenda of the Modi government in its second term.
Banning alternative smoking devices like e-cigarettes, heat-not-burn smoking devices, vape and e-nicotine flavoured hookahs was among the key priorities of the first 100 days agenda of the Modi government in its second term.
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday hiked the price of ethanol procured by public sector oil marketing companies for one year starting December.
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared over Rs. 9000 crore capital infusion in IDBI Bank in a bid to increase the lender's capital base.
The Union Cabinet will meet at the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi amid turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir. Just ahead of the Cabinet meeting, the Cabinet Committee on Security will also meet. The important panel includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar.
The transgender bill will benefit large number of transgender persons, mitigate the stigma, discrimination and abuse against this marginalised section and bring them into the mainstream of the society, an official statement said. This will lead to inclusiveness and make them productive members of the society, it said.
The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved amendments in the POCSO Act, which deals with crime against children, and included death penalty for sexual assault on minors, officials said.
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill was passed by Lok Sabha in December, 2018. It had lapsed with the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha and has to be introduced again. Bringing in an Act to regulate surrogacy in the country is a matter of primacy for the Union Health Ministry.
Since 2017, the Union Home Ministry has been considering the two laws to give more power to the NIA to meet fresh challenges, the sources pointed out.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Triple Talaq Bill in the upcoming session of Parliament.
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