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UPI transaction charges: Petrol pump dealers seek full MDR exemption on payments above Rs.2,000

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- The All India Petroleum Dealers Association has appealed to the Union Finance Minister for an immediate waiver of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges on UPI payments exceeding ... Read More


Sheikh Hasinas December return: Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer says, ‘write it on stone

Bangladesh, Sept. 16 -- Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will return to Bangladesh in December, and those dismissing the possibility of her political comeback may be seriously underestim... Read More


Diyas to yagya, Delhi govt to mark PM Modi's birthday

New Delh, Sept. 16 -- The Delhi government will organise four programmes centred on service and public participation on Thursday to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday, including the lighting... Read More


What Liberia's Historic Revenue Milestone Means - and Doesn't Mean - for Ordinary Liberians

Monrovia, Sept. 16 -- Liberia is celebrating a number. For the first time in the country's 179-year history, domestic revenue collection has pushed past US$1 billion in a single year - a figure Presid... Read More


EPFO ceiling reset after 12 years; Rs.25,000 threshold to cover 5.1 million more workers

NEW DELHI, Sept. 16 -- The Centre is expanding mandatory retirement and social-security coverage to more formal-sector workers, raising the wage ceiling for compulsory Employees' Provident Fund Organi... Read More


Supreme Court flays Centre for challenging pension to disabled soldiers, junks 270 appeals

India, Sept. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday criticised the Centre for pursuing appeals against grant of disability pension to ex-servicemen in the face of a clear recommendation by the defence min... Read More


All 10 convicts awarded death sentence in 2013 Maoist attack

Jagdalpur, Sept. 16 -- A special NIA court in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Wednesday handed down death penalty to all 10 convicts in the 2013 Jhiram Valley Maoist attack case, in which 29 people ... Read More


Department of Fisheries to Organize National Workshop on Promotion of Deep-Sea Fishing and Interaction with Access Pass and LoA Holders

Bhubaneswar, Sept. 16 -- The Department of Fisheries, Government of India is organizing a National Workshop on Promotion of Deep-Sea Fishing and Interaction with Access Pass and LoA Holders on 17th Se... Read More


Ladakh: 20 NCC girl cadets completed 250-km trek

Leh,, Sept. 16 -- Twenty NCC girl cadets selected from across the country on Wednesday completed the 30-day, 250-km 'Aparajita-Parang La 2026' high-altitude long trek, traversing the 5,578-metre Paran... Read More


Punjab also needs transparent, development-oriented govt: Saini

Chandigarh, Sept. 16 -- Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, while addressing a public meeting organised at Goluka village in Ferozepur district of Punjab on Wednesday, said that Prime Minister N... Read More