New Delhi: Government has asked banks to achieve weekly targets set for the purpose of enabling “Jeevan Pramaan” – an “Aadhaar-based Digital Life Certification system for Pensioners so as to cover at least 50% in next 2-3 weeks. Pensioners can approach their paying branches with the PPO, Aadhaar card and bank pass book for trouble-free seeding of Pensioners’ Aadhaar number in their bank account.

New Delhi: First Lady Suvra Mukherjee passed away this morning. She left for her heavenly abode at 10:51 am. 

Ara: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a ₹1.25 lakh crore development package for Bihar. He said an additional ₹40,000 crore was also being invested in the state through various projects under implementation. 

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the resolve of 125 crore Indians, as "Team India", to root out corruption, and to make India a developed nation by 2022 – the 75th anniversary of independence. 

As India prepares to mark its 69th Independence Day on Saturday, people pin hopes on flagship programmes, unfurled by PM Narendra Modi during the last one year, kindling optimism notwithstanding sceptics apprehensions that results are a far cry. Power corridors contest criticism and back up statements with piles of data and physical targets accomplished on the ground rubbishing claims of critics who rue, “let us come to the ground reality –nothing extraordinary has been done except for high sounding announcements”.

New Delhi: In order to build on the very encouraging response to the two very affordable and convenient to subscribe insurance schemes, namely the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) for accident and disability cover of up to ₹2 Lakh at an annual premium of ₹12 and the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) for a term life cover of 2 Lakh at an annual premium of ₹330, launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 9th May this year, a special enrolment drive is being launched by participating Banks and Insurance Companies in the months of August-September, in the backdrop of the forthcoming festival of Raksha Bandhan. The drive will reach out to the pool of eligible Bank account holders who are yet to be enrolled under these schemes.