Sharifs' jail sentences suspended in corruption case, to be released

In a relief to the still-grieving Sharif family, a top Pakistani court suspended on Wednesday the jail sentences of the embattled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law in......

Russia interfered in US presidential polls with purpose: Comey

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey has said there should be ‘no fuzz’ about Russia’s role in influencing the 2016 US election that brought Donald Trump to......

Osama's son 'bent on avenging his father's death'

Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza is poised to lead a stronger, larger Al Qaeda and is “bent on avenging” his father’s death, according to a former Federal Bureau of Investigation......

Sacked Delhi minister seeks 'lie detector test' for himself, Kejriwal and Jain

Escalating the Aam Aadmi Party political drama, MLA Kapil Mishra, who was sacked from the state cabinet, has demanded a lie-detector test for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, state Health......

Should we scrap quarterly job surveys?

A government panel examined the records of employees surveyed by Labour Bureau’s quarterly enterprises surveys and mapped it with EPFO's subscribers and found “unexplained......

Doubts resurface over govt's jobs data, as EPFO cuts payroll numbers

The payroll data has been revised downwards for each of the nine months between September 2017 and May this year Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The net enrolment numbers released by the......

Govt planning monthly payroll data in place of quarterly job surveys

The Prime Minister’s Office has decided to set up a panel, led by former chief statistician T C A Anant, to deliberate on whether the enterprise-level quarterly data, which is released by the......

Job creation takes a beating in April-June 2017

The number of new jobs created declined by around 65 per cent to 64,000 in April-June 2017, from 185,000 in January-March 2017, according to the Labour Bureau’s quarterly report on......