With the pandemic taking a toll on many businesses and many salaried employees losing their jobs, all eyes are on the upcoming budget. The list of expectations is huge considering that many sectors have fallen prey to the pandemic. However, below are some of them that I believe should be addressed on priority: 1) With […]
Shrimant Jadhav, Headmaster, Zilla Parishad School, Dighol Deshpande village, said online education was an alternative option but the mode has failed in rural areas.
New Delhi: The Delhi-NCR property market has maximum stuck housing units at 1.9 lakh, worth nearly Rs 1.2 lakh crore, that were delayed by at least seven years, according to property consultant Anarock. A total of 1,90,120 housing units, worth Rs 1,19,291 crore, were stuck in the Delhi-NCR as of 2020-end. These flats were launched […]
With Covid-19 induced lockdown, many small businessmen lost their daily bread. People were confined to their homes and the sales of many non-essential businesses came to a standstill. In such a situation, when someone executes out of the box ideas to survive, it becomes an inspiration for everyone One such small businessman is Rakesh Mandal […]
Your salary has been credited — This text message is enough to make us smile for the initial 20 days of the month. But, how’s life after that? As the month-end comes near, we start restricting our expenses because perhaps till then, we have exceeded our spending limit. Month-end money crunch is a reality which […]
Who knew that suddenly there will be a worldwide shortage of toilet papers, people will start making memes on World War 3, Pentagon will release UFO videos, and Kim Jong-Un will disappear for days leaving everyone paranoid? The world came into a halt and Elon Musk’s choice of his baby name perplexed everyone. The world […]
‘Digital India’ mission had already seen a rise in card transactions and post-pandemic, imagining our life without ATM cards is almost impossible. There have been numerous reports of many ATM card-related frauds. Here are nine things you should remember in order to safeguard your transactions. Make sure you keep changing the PIN from time to […]
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday urged Orissa High Court judges, two Union ministers from the state and all ministers, MLAs and MPs of Odisha to adopt government schools under the ‘Mo School’ initiative. In a letter to the elected representatives and judges, Patnaik advised them to adopt the schools in which they had studied […]
The working group formed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to study aspects of digital lending activities by regulated as well as un-regulated players, has listed out over 1,000 illegal mobile lending apps that are busy wooing hapless customers stuck in urgent need of cash. “We do not know how many mobile app-based lending companies are […]
New Delhi: Around 9.33 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in November against 11.99 lakh in the previous month. The latest data is part of a report released by the National Statistical Office (NSO). Gross new enrolments with the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) were 8.87 lakh in June, 4.89 lakh in […]