Experts also highlight need for more data to assess impact on ground. Govt data shows there are currently 53 cr Jan Dhan account holders, of whom 30 cr are women.
Finance ministry has announced that number of Jan Dhan accounts in the country has crossed the 50-crore mark, as on 9 August, since scheme was launched nine years back, in 2014.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had earlier said that ex-gratia payment of Rs 500 would be credited to female Jan Dhan account holders for the next three months.
Durrani as NSA was a leap for Pakistan. No surprise that he didn’t even last a year in that job. He chafed after 26/11, seeing it as a deliberate Army/ISI betrayal.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
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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