Indians have re-discovered the virtues of thrift in a Covid-battered economy. Household savings have started to rise as consumers have cut back on discretionary spending over the past six months. The ...

Thousands of Congress supporters and all six MLAs of the party in Malda district participated in a sit-in demonstration in front of the district magistrate’s office, demanding inclusion of Malda...

Police and supply department officials, acting on a tip-off, seized over 1,500 quintals of rice and wheat after raiding two unauthorised warehouses in the Sakchi and Golmuri police station areas on Fr...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced the extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), a free ration scheme, for 80 crore people across the country till the end of No...

The Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on Thursday said women bank account holders under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) will start getting an amount of Rs 500 per month from Friday.This follows...

Around 8.2 lakh members of retirement fund body EPFO and private PF trusts have dipped into their savings and withdrawn Rs 3,243.17 crore to sustain in the lockdown imposed to contain Covid-19. Earlie...

The Narendra Modi government appears to have taken its first stab at austerity after the Covid crisis blew a hole through its finances and ran into problems in funding a Rs 20.97-lakh-crore “sti...

Only 5 per cent of Palamau’s women Jan Dhan account holders eligible for the Centre’s Rs 500 relief during the coronavirus outbreak went to the bank and collected the money, a surprise for the pov...

The Mamata Banerjee government is exploring the possibility of allocating 5kg of rice for three months to those left out of a central scheme that covers only beneficiaries who fall under the food secu...