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In a bid to streamline the National Pension System (NPS) and make it more attractive, particularly for the government employees, the Union Cabinet has recently approved some changes in the scheme which will benefit around 18 lakh Central government employees covered under NPS. This was informed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi on Monday.
Both the Congress and the BJP have claimed the rise in voter turnout, which touched a record 75.05% in this assembly election, to be a tide in their favour.While Congress...
Kannur International Airport opens! In a big cheer for the people of Kerala, the state got its fourth airport today – the Kannur International Airport. Now, it has beco...
Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot, who once described himself as "overcautious", advises waiting for the counting of votes before the question of who will hea...
07, Dec 2018, by : Desk FnF
Rajasthan and Telangana are voting today in the last of state elections before the December 11 results, seen as a big test for political parties as they gear up for next year's national polls. For the BJP, the important battle is in Rajasthan, where it hopes to buck the two-decade trend of the incumbent losing power. In Telangana, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is facing the Congress and N Chandrababu Naidu - political rivals who have come together for the first time. A victory for the alliance will boost the opposition ahead of the national elections. The counting of votes will take place on December 11, along with that of Madhya PradeshRead News
05, Dec 2018, by : Desk FnF
Launching a sharp attack on the Congress over its uproar over the EVMs, which it claims were tampered with, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan dismissed the allegations as baseless. Read News
05, Dec 2018, by : Desk FnF
The central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it was forced to send CBI director Alok Verma on leave because the image of the investigative agency was taking a beating due to the fight between two top officers and not because of the corruption complaint against him. Read News
05, Dec 2018, by : Desk FnF
The police officer's murder is another instance of how Hindutva groups have been radicalised by the communal rhetoric that has been spread through North India.Read News
03, Dec 2018, by : Desk FnF
Offering open support to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh after Navjot Singh Sidhu's 'captain' jibe, Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu have put up hoardings across Ludhiana that read, 'Punjab da captain, sadda captain'. Read News
01, Dec 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
The party is all set to turn anti-incumbency to pro-incumbency with Congress not even declaring its chief ministerial candidate for a fear of caste backlash. The BJP has been able to control dissidence better with lesser number of rebels than the Congress," Jaitley had said.Read News
After concoctions of every order, Congress-JDS combine has finally crossed the last hurdle for forming government in Karnataka. With BS Yeddyurappa stepping down as the Chief Minister before the confidence vote, Congress's winning combination of strategies seems to have saved them the electoral loss of the state.
PM Narendra Modi has delivered a huge win for his party, proving that his popularity remains undiminished in an election that was seen as a primer for the national electi...
Karnataka has been atypical - it has not returned the ruling party to power in the last three decades. The big question now is, will chief minister Siddaramaiah buck this...
The much awaited Gujarat verdict is pronounced and BJP has romped home with a wafer thin majority thereby creating history in India's electoral journey by winnin...
19, Dec 2017, by : FnF Desk
During his campaign for the 2017 Gujarat elections, Rahul Gandhi's temple run mostly skirted areas where the minority vote lay. Even when passing through such areas, he breezed through, waving at crowds from his vehicle. Read News
31, Oct 2017, by : FnF Desk
Winston Churchill's observation that America can be depended upon to do the right thing after it has tried all the other alternatives is applicable to most countries. Read News
27, Oct 2017, by : FnF Desk
The biggest challenge and the top priority in Kashmir are to deradicalize Kashmiri youth and militants and prevent it from turning into a Syria of India, says Dineshwar Sharma, the newly-named interlocutor for talks in Jammu and Kashmir.Read News
30, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
Nitish Kumar in his earlier stint as the chief minister, had become a larger than life figure because of his success in controlling lawlessness in the state and preparing the ground for development. As a result, he was even seen as a possible player on the national stage.Read News
16, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
Nitish Kumar is in a bind. He knows that the mahagathbandhan or grand alliance in Bihar is fraying at the edges, but he doesn't know which way to turn. Read News
09, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
It is strange that despite past examples of the incendiary potential of linguistic chauvinism, politicians still pursue the same fateful path.Read News
by : Priti Prakash
Its just few months before the 2019 general elections will be declared. Political parties have sound...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
The killing of Tigress Avni on the ground that she was a man eater caused outrage across the nation...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
