NEW DELHI : Allowing subscribers to update exit date online after changing jobs, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has now launched ‘date of exit’ facility on the EPF portal. Earlier, EPF account holders were dependent on their ex-employers to declare the date of exit as the facility was not available online to EPF subscribers. “Now employees can…
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Groom’s father and bride’s mother ‘elope’ just weeks before their childrens’ wedding
Surat: Two youngsters’ plans of tying the knot was shattered after the groom’s father and the bride’s mother reportedly eloped. The two revived their younger days’ love and fled. The marriage was scheduled in the second week of February, but the 48-year-old man and 46-year-old woman, are nowhere to be found for 10 days, a Times of…
(Alert) Fake Flipkart Ads Phishing Scam Exposed On Twitter
Before starting the article SUSCRIBE Quickclarity news to get latest news updates Quickclarity News Service The fake advertisements are directing the user to a website, which has the look and feel of the official Flipkart website When contacted by Inc42, Flipkart said that it has a stringent process to check for fake and phishing sites Ministry of Consumer Affairs…
India Expected To Have 1.5 Lakh Jobs In Data Science This Year, Says Hyderabad-based Firm
HYDERABAD: India is expected to have 1.5 lakh new job openings in data science in 2020, an increase of about 62 per cent as compared to 2019, said a report by Hyderabad-based ed-tech company Great Learning.
‘Cannot do terror politics just because we have numbers’: Chandra Kumar Bose on CAA
‘Cannot do terror politics just because we have numbers’: Chandra Kumar Bose on CAA Amid continuing protests against CAA, NRC taking place in the country, West Bengal BJP vice president Chandra Kumar Bose said that he has suggested to the party leadership that with a little modification, the entire opposition campaign will fizzle out. Bose…
Facebook apologises after vulgar translation of Xi Jinping’s name
Facebook Inc said on Saturday it was working to find out how Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appeared as ‘Mr Shithole’ in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused and saying the problem had been fixed. The error came to light on the second day of a…
Young and Seales help West Indies beat Australia for the first time at the ICC U19 World Cup
Jayden Seales did the damage with the ball to hustle Australia out for 179 and Young’s measured innings in reply saw West Indies to victory with 24 balls to spare of their Group B opener. Bangladesh and UAE were emphatic winners on the second day of action in South Africa, while Japan’s ICC event debut…
Bundesliga: Erling Haaland scores hat-trick on debut as Dortmund beat Augsburg 5-3
Erling Haaland scores hat-trick on debut as Dortmund beat Augsburg 5-3 Norwegian teenager Erling Haaland scored a second-half hat trick on a dream Bundesliga debut to help Borussia Dortmund come from two goals down and win 5-3 at Augsburg on Saturday. The 19-year-old Haaland, who came on in the 56th minute after Florian Niederlechner had…
Congress Leader Hardik Patel Arrested for Evading Sedition Case Trial
Ahmedabad: Congress leader Hardik Patel was arrested on Saturday night from Viramgam taluka in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district for failing to appear before a trial court here in a 2015 sedition case, hours after a warrant was issued against him. Patel’s arrest was confirmed by DCP Rajdeepsinh Zala (cyber crime). “We have arrested Haridk Patel from…
Jeff Bezos makes mega million jobs promise in India as Amazon firefights govt
Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it planned to create 1 million jobs in India by 2025, a day after the country’s trade minister said the e-commerce giant’s recently unveiled $1 billion investment in the country was no big favour.
Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart are facing mounting criticism from India’s brick-and-mortar retailers, which accuse the U.S. giants of violating Indian law by racking up billions of dollars in losses to fund deep discounts and discriminating against small sellers. The companies deny the allegations.
Amazon said it would create new jobs in India through investments in infrastructure, technology and logistics.
Punjab Assembly, second after Kerala, passes resolution against CAA
Punjab Assembly on Friday passed a resolution against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act that was cleared by Parliament last month, the second assembly after Kerala to call for scrapping the law.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh later told reporters that his government would also move the Supreme Court against the CAA. Kerala had earlier this week joined the 60-odd petitioners who have already approached the top court against the law that lets the government fast-track citizenship request of people on grounds of religion.
The resolution said the citizenship law was ‘divisive and stands for everything opposed to a free and fair democracy, which must enshrine equality for all’.
For the Sake of India, I Believe Arvind Kejriwal Must Be Re-Elected in Delhi
Elections to Delhi have been announced for February 8, 2020. Winning these elections may be important for Arvind Kejriwal, but it is even more important for India, or at least for that part of India which cherishes all that the constitution had promised it. Although Delhi has just 70 seats, only 14 million voters (less than 2% of India’s electorate) and is not even a full-fledged state, its politics is disproportionate to its numbers for it is the national capital, houses all the foreign consulates, is the hub of all media reporting and is a genuine microcosm of India. Its residents represent the full spectrum of Indian politics, ideologies, opinions, religions, regions, castes and concerns.
Cuttack to Delhi, Amazon for $2-bn annual exports by Indian sellers
Buoyed by the success of Indian sellers exporting products to global markets through its e-commerce platform, Amazon has raised its target of exporting India-made products to $2 billion per year till 2025, up from its $1 billion sales in the first three years of its global selling programme in the country (May 2015-April 2018).
Kohli named ICC’s ODI, Test captain of the year
India skipper and batting mainstay Virat Kohli was on Wednesday named captain of the International Cricket Council’s ODI and Test teams of the year, capping off a memorable season for the world No.1.
Govt proposes to treat rare disease patients at one-time treatment cost of up to Rs 15L
New Delhi: The government will provide a financial support of up to Rs 15 lakh under its Rashtriya Arogaya Nidhi scheme for one-time treatment of rare diseases, according to the much-awaited draft Rare Diseases Policy.
Under the draft National Policy for Rare Diseases released on Monday, beneficiaries would not be limited to Below Poverty Line families, but will also cover 40 per cent of the population eligible as per norms of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana for their treatment in government tertiary hospitals only.
The Union Health Ministry intends to notify certain medical institutes as Centers of Excellence for Rare Diseases.
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