PM-JAY is world’s largest government-funded health insurance and assurance scheme; offers coverage of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation.
Laid on table of Rajya Sabha on 18 Dec, the report looks at MEA budget. Existing 1983 law focuses primarily on emigration of labour to Gulf countries, with focus on unskilled jobs.
Priyanka Gandhi says it was pretty clear her mother meant no disrespect. On BJP's demand for an apology, she says, 'BJP should first apologise for landing the country in a ditch'.
In Episode 1596 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta delves into the vice-president's call to do away with the parliamentary whip system & how it could strengthen democracy.
The Kovind Committee claims that the Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct results in “governance deficit”. This argument is popular with people who haven’t actually read the MCC.
Amid the ongoing ideological slugfest, I strongly recommend reading Ambedkar in his own words. For his acolytes, it is important to remember Ambedkar’s advice on independent thinking.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who is also Leader of Oppn in Lok Sabha, has been booked on complaint by BJP over 'scuffle' that allegedly resulted in injuries to two BJP MPs.
Responding to which the Congress leader says that he was trying to get inside Parliament when he was instead pushed & threatened by the protesting BJP MPs.
Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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