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Sunday, May 4, 2025
TopicPublic Provident Fund

Topic: Public Provident Fund

Centre raises interest rates by 0.7% on small saving schemes for April-June quarter

While interest rates for PPF & savings deposits have been retained at 7.1% & 4%, respectively, there has been an increase of 0.1% to 0.7% in other saving schemes, the finance ministry said.

Modi govt withdraws cuts in small savings rates hours after order as Assam, Bengal vote

In a tweet Thursday morning, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the order issued by 'oversight,' stands withdrawn.

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‘They said I don’t belong’—Kashmiri shawl vendors leave Mussoorie after 2 assaulted by local residents

16 vendors left Mussoorie following a hate crime in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. Police asked all of them to go back to Kashmir for 'their safety'.

DRDO eyes persistent high-altitude surveillance edge as Stratospheric Airship soars in maiden trial

The platform functions as a high-altitude pseudo-satellite, designed to operate between 17 and 22 km above the Earth for extended periods.

Caste census is a bad idea whose time has come. Much worse lies ahead

One of the reasons we call the caste census a bad idea is that so far, nobody has figured what to do with the data, except Rahul Gandhi.