Hundreds of retirements and subsequent pension procedures for personnel of various Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) have been stuck since May 31 as the Ministry of Home Affairs is yet to take a fin...

As many as 63 retired employees of IIT(ISM), including 56 faculty members, who joined the institute before 1986 have stopped receiving pension since February last year owing to a lack of clarity on th...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will spend about two hours in the capital on Thursday, is scheduled to address a gathering of over one lakh farmers at Prabhat Tara ground here, inaugurate a number o...

A 70-year-old retired schoolteacher has given Rs 20,000 to a study centre for underprivileged children in Howrah to provide them and their families with food during the lockdown.Sankar Prasad Hore who...

A group of elderly women from the ward of Siliguri Trinamul Congress councillor Ranjan Silsharma confined mayor Asok Bhattacharya to his chamber for three hours on Monday, alleging that the Left Front...

Around 40,000 people engaged in loading and unloading coal at various BCCL and ECL mines here will benefit from the newly launched Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan Yojana, a pension scheme for work...

The high court on Friday directed the Bengal school education department to disburse pension and other retirement benefits due for 21 years to the family of a clerk who had retired from a North 24-Par...

Going into an election year there were expectations of multiple populist measures in this year’s interim budget. However, the government needed to meet its fiscal deficit target too. So the budget t...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked authorities of every district to ensure that beneficiaries of all social pension schemes got cheques without facing any hardship.“It has to be ensured that beneficia...

A pension scheme has been announced for unorganised workers in the interim budget for 2019. This scheme, it has been claimed, is the largest such initiative in the world. The proposal is that all unor...