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.
CBI has also named unknown officials of the union environment ministry in the PE.
Though it is likely gross domestic capital formation increased in the quarter ended June, against declines in the previous two quarters, a significant revival in investment might take a few quarters more, economists say.
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
Rules for mining, roads, power and irrigation projects relaxed.
These include Apprenticeship Act 1961 and Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act 1988
E-retailer Flipkart has signed a memorandum of understanding with the labour ministry for short-term training of its new employees.
Cabinet may take up amendments to 3 laws on Wednesday; but no relaxed retrenchment norms yet.
The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government has given environment clearance to five projects since it took charge on May 26.
Arun Jaitley had proposed in the Budget to double the rate of capital gains tax on debt MFs to 20%.
Data show 75 per cent of the girls in 2011 were those who did not contribute to any economic activity (termed as non-workers by Census) -- these could include students, those involved in household chores, beggars, or those not helping in even unpaid work in the family, etc.
It's a middle path for labour reforms.
Every organisation will also prioritise the areas requiring mandatory inspection, and the cases forwarded by the CAIU will be on data and evidence basis.
The ministry is likely to go by the recommendations of a committee on liberalising external commercial borrowings, headed by M S Sahoo, a former director with the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
DEA officials to push for this at a meeting with FM Jaitley.
The former RBI deputy governor talked about the prospects of an economic revival, reforms in IMF, etc.
As many as seven retail shops on Lanka Road in Varanasi are owned and run by the extended family of the Kejriwals in the holy town.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has made it abundantly clear that he would contest against Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi.
Employees of around 150 firms may lose out on PF benefits as their companies failed to get an exemption certificate from the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
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