The Social Welfare Department has stopped disbursement of pension to 60,000 beneficiaries.
The social welfare department will verify the names of the beneficiaries from the Central pool. It was alleged that several beneficiaries had multiple pension cards.Both the Centre and the state contribute towards the pension scheme.Around Rs 800 crore is spent annually on the pension scheme by the government.
Acting against the violent protests in connection with implementation of the Supreme Court order allowing entry of all women at the Sabarimala shrine, Kerala Police have arrested around 1,400 people since Wednesday night. The crackdown began after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated that the government would implement the court order and criminals would not be […]
Jinder Mahal defeated Shinsuke Nakamura. This was Mahal’s third WWE Championship title defense. The win takes Mahal’s title reign’to 91 days. Jinder Mahal defended his WWE Championship for the third time defeating Shinsuke Nakamura at WWE pay-per-view SummerSlam 2017 at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York on Sunday. Mahal thus extended his title reign to 91 days. […]
In 2018, the BJP’s rare successes in north east India aside, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong for the party. Archis Mohan reports. Electorally, 2018 has turned out to be the Bharatiya Janata Party’s annus horribilis, comparable only to 2015. In 2018, the BJP’s rare successes in north east India aside, everything that could […]