By C. Thiruvenkatam | Daily Hind News | 25 May 2026 Every month, a portion of your salary quietly goes into your EPF account. Your employer adds their share on top. And interest gets credited annually at the current rate of 8.25% per annum for 2025-26. Yet most salaried Indians have no idea how much […]
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Daily Hind News | 25 May 2026 Yesterday was the day lakhs of UPSC aspirants had been preparing for — sometimes for years. The Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2026 was conducted on 24 May 2026 across hundreds of examination centres in India. If you appeared yesterday, the first thing on your
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Daily Hind News | May 2026 Most NRIs living in the UAE, UK, USA, Canada, or Australia still have a regular savings account in India that they opened before leaving. That account became illegal the moment you became a non-resident — Indian tax law requires NRIs to convert or close resident
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Daily Hind News | May 2026 Owning a pucca house is a dream for millions of Indian families living in temporary or damaged structures. The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana — one of India’s largest government housing schemes — provides financial assistance to eligible families to build or upgrade their homes, completely
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Daily Hind News | May 2026 A serious illness should not push a family into debt. That is the entire idea behind the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana — India’s government health insurance scheme that covers hospitalisation costs up to ₹5 lakh per family per year at empanelled hospitals
By C. Thiruvenkatam | Daily Hind News | May 2026 For over 29 lakh students who appeared in the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad examinations this year, the wait is finally over. UP Board Result 2026 has been declared for both Class 10 (High School) and Class 12 (Intermediate) — and you can check your
UIDAI periodically opens a window where Aadhaar holders can update their supporting documents — name proof, address proof, date of birth proof — completely free of charge online. Outside this window, the same update costs ₹50 per request at an Aadhaar enrolment centre. If your Aadhaar was issued more than 10 years ago and you
Over 3.5 million Indians live in the UAE — making it home to one of the largest Indian communities in the world. Every year, tens of thousands of them need to renew their Indian passport, and most spend weeks confused about whether to apply online first, book a VFS appointment first, or walk into the