Thursday, December 13, 2018
Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said that the pension amount for beneficiaries under Old Age, Divyang and Widow categories will be raised to Rs 1,000 from the next financial year budget. The CM, while interacting with people at Nutanidih village in...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Bolivia will launch in 2020 a project to expand and improve drinking water and sanitation services with help from a $79 million loan approved today by the Inter-American Development Bank’s Board of Directors.
The project seeks to improve environmental...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $53.8 million loan to build a new hospital in Honduras that will improve trauma and emergency care services both in the capital Tegucigalpa and the central-southeast region of the country. Through the...
Monday, December 10, 2018
The World Health Organization (WHO) Monday endorsed Kenya’s ambitious Universal Health Coverage (UHC) program whose pilot phase President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch in Kisumu on Thursday this week.
President Kenyatta said Kenya’s UHC has a strong...
Saturday, December 8, 2018
The Centre is mulling a new scheme to compensate private firms which have been mandated by law to grant extended maternity benefits to women employees since March last year.
The Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) both...
Thursday, December 6, 2018
A private insurance company’s contention that maternity benefits are applicable only to live births came under criticism from a city consumer court recently. The judges slammed the firm’s decision to deny a Bengaluru techie her policy claim after she had...
