Earlier, senior citizens used to get benefits from the health cover as part of the family. However, with the roll-out of extended cover, senior citizens aged 70 or above will get an individual cover of Rs 5 lakh.
The 78-year-old Gurmit Kaur first arrived in the UK in 2009 and stayed with her son as she was unable to afford a passage back home. Now, she is estranged from her children and relies on the support of her community.
Maharashtra crime news: According to officials of the Lakhani police station, Akash was known to be an alcoholic who regularly came home drunk and abused all his family members, particularly his aged and ailing mother, who also suffered beating at his hands.
A woman was seen trying to protect the man from being beaten by the senior citizen, after which both were abused and pushed by a group of women.
Under the previous taxation system, senior citizens who earn up to Rs. 3 lakh per year are exempted to pay income tax. However, the new regime stipulates that senior citizens will only be exempt from income tax if their annual income is less than Rs. 2.5 lakh.
Banks have recently raised interest rates on fixed deposits for both regular depositors and senior citizens.
At the peak of the pandemic, rates dropped to as low as 5.5 percent due to excess liquidity. It was last month that the govt increased the return on the senior citizen saving scheme (SCSS).
Ratan Tata on Tuesday attended the event organised by a startup Goodfellows that offers companionship to senior citizens. His video from the same has been winning hearts on the internet. Watch here.
According to federal prosecutors, the Indian-American used a phoney Indian passport, false name, and false address to open multiple bank accounts in the US
A 60-year-old woman was beaten to death and five members of her family were seriously injured when they tried to stop Holi revellers from playing Holi outside their house in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah.
The Supreme Court Tuesday directed that all eligible old age persons should be regularly paid pension and states should provide them necessary medicines, masks, sanitizers, and other essential goods in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Actress Dia Mirza has taken to social media to raise concern for senior citizens living alone as there is a lockdown across the nation amidst widespread coronavirus scare. She has tweeted urging the government to clarify curfew guidelines so that the vulnerable sections of society can plan better for the days ahead.
The Delhi SGMC has initiated the movement to maintain, provide, renovate and repair existing infrastructure to ensure that the elderly and differently-abled have easy access to the gurdwara complex
A cement hoarding sheet uprooted by gusty winds crashed on a pedestrian outside Churchgate station, injuring him seriously, the BMC Disaster Control said here on Wednesday.
The survey sample respondents included 8,000 elderly people from Delhi-NCR and concluded that out of 2,743 affected elderly respondents, 985 persons ranked misbehaviour as the most common form of abuse of elders.
The rate of depression amongst AMD patients is substantially higher than depression due to other reasons amongst the elderly population.
Under the 'Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana', any resident of Delhi above the age of 60 will be eligible to undertake pilgrimage, accompanied by an attendant above the age of 18, whose expenditure will also be borne by the government.
Cabinet today approved a pension scheme for senior citizens under which public insurer LIC will provide a guaranteed return of 8 per cent for 10 years, as part of government's social security and financial inclusion programme.
New Delhi, Feb 29: Asking a Delhi policeman for water cost a 66-year-old businessman his life on late Tuesday night. The incident took place at Subroto Park police station at around 1 AM where the deceased's
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