The union cabinet on Wednesday gave approval to amendments to child labour (prohibition and regulation) amendment Bill, 2012. The bill proposes to amend the child labour (prohibition and regulation) Act, 1986. It seeks a complete ban on child labo
The government has approved stake sales in giant state-owned units Indian Oil (IOC) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to mop up close to Rs 10,000 crore. The proposal was cleared at union cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Wh
Raghwan, a Fiji-born former trade unionist, is a senior specialist at the Geneva-based International Labour Organisation (ILO) and responsible for trade unions in Asia and Pacific in the Bureau for Workers Activities – ACTRA
In the interest of consumers, the Reserve Bank of India has asked all public sector and large private banks to appoint internal ombudsman. "The internal ombudsman would be designated Chief Customer Service Officer (CCSO),"
While retail inflation in April fell to a four-month low of 4.87 per cent, the annual growth in production at factories, mines and utilities slowed to 2.1 percent in March, the slowest pace since last October. The retail inflation m
The GST Bill has been referred to Select Committee of Rajya Sabha. It will be headed by Bhupendra Yadav. The report of the committee will be placed before house on last day of first week of next session. This decision was taken on Tuesday as the g
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has said that he was appealing in the supreme court against the acquittal of J Jayalalithaa and three others in a disproportionate assets case. The Karnataka government, meanwhile, is still to decide on the appeal agai
India is a different kind of an economy and global companies have been reinventing themselves to do business in the country. Now, the taxi-hailing service provider Uber has gone for cash payment option, a global first for the US-based company.
Laws of land should make conduct of social life simple and act as deterrent. But India never has been a easy country in terms of rule of law. We are governed by laws that overlap in jurisdiction and many a times contradictory. Even the supreme cou
India’s working class – organised, contract and unorganised – has never been as defenceless as now. The once formidable trade union movements have wilted under the onslaught of globalisation and liberalisation, after economic ref
The beleaguered national carrier is aiming to rebuild and restructure its tattered image by raising $300 million from overseas market via External Commercial Borrowing (ECB). The Air India is believed to be mopping up these funds from foreign mark
KV Kamath has been elected as the chief of $50-billion BRICS New Development Bank, which aims to fund infrastructure projects in developing nations. The bank looks to be an alternative to other multi-lateral agencies with the focus on the de
Celebrations were visible across Tamil Nadu after the Karnataka high court acquitted former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa and three others in disproportionate assets case. Top AIADMK leaders made a beeline f
The Karnataka high court has acquitted J Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case on Monday
The black money bill is likely to be taken up for consideration in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The legislation, known officially Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets Bill, provides for heavy penalties and imprisonment of up to 10 years for stashing
In India, income does not explain the use of smartphones and mobile broadband. As smartphone prices in India have decreased, those from low income backgrounds have a greater opportunity to fulfil their aspirations – to own a smartphone
At ten past eleven as justice DW Deshpande read out the verdict this Wednesday, one man who needed to be in court to hear justice being delivered, was not. Nor was he present at the high court today when the sentence pronounced by the lower court
The idea was to talk over lunch, but by the time we finally meet, it is 4.30 pm. Dr Priyanka Shukla had had her lunch earlier. Shukla is not a district collector yet. But she is in Delhi to ‘share her experience’ with district collecto
Quality of life for mother and children in the urban slums of Delhi is one of the worst in the world, claims Save the Children in its annual State of World’s Mother report. What is more shocking is that India stands at 140th position in the
Soon the residents of Varanasi will be able to get pure drinking water from the polluted river Ganga, which is filthy and unhealthy even for a dip. Sulabh International is claiming to provide its new innovation at Asi ghat of the te
