# EPF The return on workers’ retirement savings parked with the employees’ provident fund organization (EPFO) has been slashed to 8.1% for the 2021-22 from the 8.5% rate credited to the members’ accounts in last two years. The last time the EPF savings were paid an annual return this low was in 1977-78, when the […]

# Assembly elections results The BJP retained power in four of the five states that went to the polls. AAP snatched Punjab from the rule of the Congress. AAP is claiming, it is the natural and national alternative to the Bhartiya janta party. Chief minister said it is the victory of nationalism and good governance. […]

# Assembly elections A long and hard fought electoral battle came to an end in Uttar Pradesh on Monday with 57.17℅ of electorate spread over 9 districts voting in the seventh and final phase. Most of the exit polls have predicted a clear majority for BJP in Uttar Pradesh. Exit poll of Manipur election also […]

# Operation Ganga India has brought back over 15920 nationals on 76 flights under the evacuation mission “operation Ganga” launched following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, nearly 700 students are trapped in Sumy, waging a grim battle for survival. An attempt to evacuate residents from the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol for a second […]

# Russia – Ukraine President Vladimir Putin warned on Saturday that Russia would consider any third party declaration of a no-fly zone over Ukraine as participation in the war. Also, both sides blamed each other for failure to create a humanitarian corridor for evacuation of civilians. International monetary Fund has warned of serious global economic […]

# Russia – Ukraine India has urged both Russia and Ukraine to ensure at least local ceasefire, so that it could evacuate its nationals stranded in the conflict torn Eastern Ukraine hotspots of Kharkiv and Sumy. The Indian push for some kind of ceasefire came as there are more than 1000 Indian students in stranded […]

# Russia – Ukraine war Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a large number of Indian students continue to remain hostage in a train station in kharkiv by Indian students. President putin also said that Neo nazis are open firing at foreign students in which two Chinese citizens have been injured. Both Russia and Ukraine […]

# Russia – Ukraine The war in Ukraine claimed its first Indian casualty as a 21 year old student from Karnataka was killed on Tuesday in an attack by Russian forces in Ukraine’s Kharkiv city. Other than evacuating Indian citizens from Ukraine, India is also sending humanitarian assistance for Ukraine including medical supplies, blankets etc. […]

# Ukraine invasion A resolution has been moved in United Nations General Assembly to condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Belarus has decided to reverse its non-nuclear status, which means that now Russia can station its nuclear arsenal in Belarus also. India is widely expected to also abstain from the resolution at UNGA. The first […]

# UNSC India, along with China and the UAE, abstained from the United Nations Security Council resolution sponsored by the US and Albania. This resolution was co-sponsored by nearly 80 countries that sought to condemn Russian aggression and called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian military from Ukraine. The resolution supported by 11 UNSC members, […]