7th Pay Commission: Very good news for employees on Holi

7th Pay Commission: Very good news for employees on Holi The salaries have been revised on one of the most auspicious days. Odisha Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik ordered for the revision of salaries of government as per the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission. The hike would be effective in retrospect effect from January 1, […]

7th Pay Commission:  Yet another state has announced a big benefit for its employees. According to reports, 7th Pay commission windfall will be applied to these workers who had till now been deprived from it. This was announced today in the state budget 2018, presented by Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya in the Assembly […]

March 31 is the last date to seed your PAN or Permanent Account Number into your Aadhaar card. The government had in December last year extended till March 31 the deadline for income tax taxpayers to link their PAN card with Aadhaar card. Previously, the deadline for compulsory linking of Aadhaar card with PAN was December 31, 2017. […]

Sharfunnisa Shaikh grew up in a ‘chawl’ and shared a common toilet with the other residents in the small suburb of Pimpri in Pune. She came from a lower middle class family, was shy and couldn’t speak English properly. Money was always tight and life was not easy for her family. Today she is a […]

The Price Of Your New Passport May Be About To Go Up A friend of mine once said that, having spent more than two decades traveling and living all over the world as an English teacher, he considers his passport to be the one thing essential to, and irreplaceable in, his life. In other words, […]

What Is Blue Coloured Aadhard Card? Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identity number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), is a compulsory identity card. A number of government schemes require applicants to provide details of their Aadhar card number. Everyone can enroll for Aadhaar – even a newborn child, mentioned UIDAI in a […]

Did you hear that the Indian government wants mobile numbers to have 13 digits and not 10? It’s true. But no, it won’t change your existing number or affect the phone users in India. The 13-digit numbers are meant only for M2M (machine2machine) SIM cards, or in other words the cards that will be used […]

We are still struggling to come in terms with the fact Sridevi is no more. The veteran, who was just 55, passed away after suffering a major cardiac arrest in Dubai last night. As a source close to the family revealed, “Sridevi was not ailing of any major sickness which is why this news is so shocking. […]

Income tax returns (ITR) filing: Bad news for salaried class; salary set to face this cut As if no relief in the income tax burden was not enough, here’s another bad news for the salaried persons. In a bid to broaden its tax base, the government is now eyeing even the compensation which someone would […]