-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi cabinet on Monday "formally approved" the inclusion of 40,000 additional beneficiaries in the old age pension scheme. The approval amounts to regularization of pensioners registered and in receiving financial assistance, even though they exist beyond the cap of 3.5 lakh permitted under the scheme of the Social welfare department. The easing of the cap is to tide over a legal crisis and a face-saving exercise...
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Varanasi widows join seers and scholars in seminar, dine together
-The Hindu Allahabad: Breaking the chains of tradition, more than a hundred widows who live an isolated and tough life in the narrow alleys of Varanasi, on Monday shared a common platform with Hindu seers and scholars, and even dined with them. The seers and sanskrit scholars converged on the holy city to explore ways of addressing the plight of widows. They quoted from the Dharm Shastra and Samaj Shastra, ancient Hindu...
More »Behind the success of every Jasauti farmer is a lady’s finger-Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu Jaipur: The nondescript Jasauti village in Pahari tehsil of Bharatpur district, situated at the Rajasthan-Haryana border, has emerged as the "Bhindi Gaon" (village of lady's fingers), sending over a dozen vehicles with the popular vegetable everyday for six months in a year to Gurgaon and Delhi. Eighty per cent of agriculturists in the village are engaged in the farming of lady's fingers. The transformation in both the social and...
More »Now, street kids to get Aadhaar cards -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Children on the streets of Delhi can now get a unique identity through the UID-Aadhaar programme. The state government's women and child development department has asked NGOs to support the process of enrollment for the biometrics-based identity number that will enable access to social entitlements. After it received a communication from the Unique Identification Authority of India in February regarding enrollment for UID cards for...
More »Aam Aadmi Party declares list of shortlisted candidates for 12 seats-Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu Final list to be decided after consultation with the grass-root workers of the respective areas Taking a lead over all the mainstream political parties, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday announced its list of 44 shortlisted candidates for 12 constituencies for the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled later this year . The party had invited applications from Delhiites for candidature over a month ago. While releasing the list, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal...
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