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New Delhi: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi asked MPs to ensure that senior citizens get the benefits of social security schemes. He said, Goods and Services Tax is getting unprecedented support and acceptance across the country and that small businessmen should register themselves under GST.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held discussions with BJP MPs from seven states at his residence in New Delhi this morning to discuss various development programmes in the states. Party MPs from Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir attended the meeting. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar was also present.

New Delhi: BJP Chief Amit Shah has attacked the Congress over dynasty politics saying internal democracy is missing in the party.Addressing a meeting of intellectuals in Lucknow, Shah said that a political party is being dominated by caste or family due to lack of internal democracy in it.

Shah drew parallels between the BJP and the Congress over who will be the next chief of the two parties.He asked the audience that who will succeed Sonia Gandhi in the Congress, to which the people responded saying Rahul Gandhi.

New Delhi: The State Bank of India has slashed interest on savings account deposits by half a percent to three and a half per cent on balance up to 1 crore rupees. For saving deposits balance above 1 crore, the rate of interest has been retained at 4 percent per annum.

The bank is introducing two-tier saving bank interest rate with effect from today itself. The largest public sector bank of the country said, revision of saving bank rate will enable the bank to maintain marginal cost of fund based lending rate at existing rates.

New Delhi: An IIT study has found that demonetisation and the subsequent push for digitisation has escalated cyber crime related risks and India is required to  upgrade its defences urgently by setting up a cyber security commission on the lines of the Atomic Energy and Space Commissions.  

Noting that the government has initiated a number of programmes to enhance the participation of citizens in the fully digitalised economy, the study said cyber security centres set up by the Reserve Bank of India would be insufficient, according to the IIT Kanpur study shared with Parliament's committee on finance.