This comes despite sharp criticism received from various RSS affiliated organisations
Under current laws, a company cannot sell mines but only transfer leases when it is acquired by another firm.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday gave his assent to Rajasthan's amendment to three laws -- the Factories Act, Industrial Dispute Act and Contract Labour Act.
The Narendra Modi-led government has issued around 50 fresh guidelines easing conditions for industry in about six months, beside launching an online system for applying environment clearances.
Paving the way for the first set of labour reforms in the country, President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to Rajasthan's amendments to three laws.
The Aam Aadmi Party is gearing up for elections for the third time in one year. Party chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal says that the Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to deceive people by projecting it as a "fight" between Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal, while the actual chief ministerial contest is between Kejriwal and Jagdish Mukhi. He concedes there is a 'Modi wave' in the country but that wouldn't affect his party' prospects in Delhi.
Decades of a state-owned monopoly selling coal at a fixed price has taken its toll on production.
CBI has also named unknown officials of the union environment ministry in the PE.
The new system will entail a periodic revision in the price of subsidised LPG cylinders so that the subsidy remains fixed.
With the Supreme Court (SC) cancelling captive coal block allocations, Jindal Steel & Power Limited will be the worst-affected company.
It is up to the government to take a decision on this before it starts auctioning.
The Supreme Court order has created a new legal framework for coal mining by ruling that only the Union government and its entities can do it.
The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its final verdict on coal mine allocations later this week.
Ministers in the Narendra Modi government have been busy making presentations on their 100 days of work. But what these presentations do not mention is that decisions by ministers have been few, with plenty of papers and files moving to the Prime Minister's Office, which is increasingly emerging as a centralised clearance point, even for routine and ordinary issues. Though policy paralysis was a term used freely for the United Progressive Alliance regime, questions are now being raised about pending decisions across ministries and whether at least some ministers have turned redundant.
The move is part of a larger initiative by the government to speed up work in the highway sector.
Since the court had earlier questioned distribution of mining rights through the screening committee route, experts say the solution worked out would be weighed on the basis of legality.
The former coal secretary opens up in a free-wheeling interview.
Some 74 projects from Odisha and another 51 projects from Chhattisgarh have lined up before the Project Monitoring Group.
According to Staermose, the main issue is that the changes in labour laws should be done after holding extensive tripartite consultations.
At least a dozen officers from Gujarat are handling key assignments in various important central positions
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