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Govt to replace MGNREGA with new rural employment scheme

A bill to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and bring a new law for rural employment -- Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) --......

Employer Returns Get Simpler with EPFO's New ECR

'These changes are expected to eliminate many data-entry problems that make the return filing process cumbersome in the current system.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff In a bid to......

Govt to rename MGNREGA to 'Poojya Bapu Grameen Rozgar Yojna'

The Union cabinet on Friday approved a Bill to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and increase the number of work days, sources said. IMAGE: Migrant's labours......

Nitish distributes new departments, retains civil aviation

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has allocated portfolios of newly created departments among ministers, keeping Civil Aviation with himself, an official notification said. IMAGE: Bihar Chief......

19 US states sue Trump admin over new fee on H-1B visas

Nineteen United States states have sued the Trump administration over its 'unlawful' decision to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions, warning that the move will worsen labour shortages......

India, Oman to ink free trade agreement during PM Narendra Modi visit

Next week’s three-nation foreign tour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will see India and Oman sign a free trade deal. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff The visit will also pave the way for......

Jobs in unincorporated sector rose marginally in Q2: NSO data

Around 128.6 million people were employed in the unincorporated sector during July-September of FY26, showed the latest quarterly bulletin of unincorporated sector enterprises released by the......

How New Labour Code Will Change The Workplace

India's labour landscape is undergoing one of the biggest transformation in decades. The government has consolidated 29 pre-Independence and early post-Independence labour laws -- many of them......

Tier-II, -III mkts make 62% of new health insurance policies

Tier-II, Tier-III, and rural regions accounted for 62 per cent of all new health insurance policies sold by insurers so far in 2025-26 (FY26), according to a Policybazaar report. Illustration:......

Brookfield to build Asia's biggest GCC facility in Powai

Brookfield Asset Management will invest $1 billion to develop Asia’s largest global capability centre (GCC) in Mumbai’s Powai, the New York-based global alternative asset manager said in a......

The Great Shamsuddin Family Review: Interesting Watch

The Great Shamsuddin Family is a seemingly light chamber piece that hides its claws of social commentary under the chirpy banter of an apartment full of women, observes Deepa Gahlot. It would......

Rajinikanth's Love Affair With Bollywood

Rajinikanth may have made his last Hindi film two decades ago but he can still set the screen alight, blazing away with a gun that has dozens of barrels.As Thalaiva turns 75 on December 12, Dinesh......

P T Usha pushes for 'Made in India' doping kits

IMAGE: PT Usha said having indigenous dope testing kits would be transformative as it would encourage research, manufacturing and technology development, including sample collection devices, and......

Chess WC: Indian challenge ends as Arjun bows out

IMAGE: Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi, seeded second, lost to seventh seed China's Wei Yi in the second game after drawing the first with black in the first set of tiebreaks. Photograph:......

How dominant Proteas drove India on the back foot

In India's first innings, only Yashasvi Jaiswal (58 off 97 balls) and Washington Sundar (48 off 92 balls) could contribute substantially as the home team suffered a batting collapse after starting......