Kerala, Punjab, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are among the major agriculturally important states that have banned the use of glyphosate citing its adverse impact on human health.
Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore
The Left unions want concrete action and not just 'assurances'.
Saffron has virtually permeated everything -- from booklets and school bags to towels or chairs and even buses. And the Qaiser Bagh police station seems to be the latest on the list.
The unions have called for a strike against proposed closure of associate banks and their merger with the State Bank of India
Banking operations including cheque clearance across the country got affected on Monday as bankers under the aegis of the United Forum of Bank Unions have gone on a nationwide strike to protest against the proposed privatisation of two state-owned lenders.
The agency's probe till now found that huge monies were transferred through RTGS transfers to some shell companies including a case where the director of such a firm was a petty labourer
About 25-30% of total units launched are unsold across country.
India is experiencing jobless growth and skepticism abounding that the country may not be able to cash in on its demographic bonus
Arvind Kejriwal will retain key portfolios in his cabinet, which is expected to be a small one.
The maximum temperature is likely to hover above 40 degrees Celsius in the next 24 hours in many parts of the state, an official said on Wednesday.
'At a time when the economy is depressed, a pandemic is raging, and the Chinese are making noises on the border, the NRC could be resuscitated.'
Flood and erosion is a serious issue in the state as more than 4.27 lakh hectares or 7.4 per cent of the state's total area have already been eroded by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries since 1950.
'This government has not created any employment.' 'Forget employment, the government had not done anything in skill development.'
'The road ahead for the government's fiscal management will be full of many new challenges,' warns A K Bhattacharya.
A senior finance ministry source said making the use of debit cards and e-wallets compulsory across the board is legally untenable, but banks have been asked to insist their account holders use these instruments
Almost all the deceased were migrant labourers hailing from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
'We saw that a large number of people entered the campus and they started arbitrarily attacking teachers and students'
The commission suggested that a comprehensive plan should be devised to handle the issue of missing files which has become a "stumbling block" in implementing the RTI act.
To young professionals I would say, work hard, play hard and not be constrained by fads like WLB, says Sudhir Bisht.
Food prices have been on the rise in China this year, pushing the country's inflation rate to 3.4 per cent in May compared with a year earlier, higher than the government's warning level of three per cent.
By passing this bill, Congress is showing that the US will not turn a blind eye to the suffering of the oppressed, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said.
The GST Council on Saturday is expected to extend the date for IGST exemption and cess on imports
A sample study conducted for the period August-October 2008 by department of commerce for 121 export related companies also revealed loss in export orders to the tune of Rs 1792 crore (Rs 17.92 billion), he said during Question Hour in Lok Sabha.
Car makers have started hiring from Gujarat's industrial training institutes (ITIs) for their factories across the country.
Though many students attended school, with letters of consent from their parents, some chose to continue education online with their guardians anxious about the pandemic situation and the emergence of a new strain of the novel coronavirus.
In a cruel twist of fate, a 25-year-old labourer who won a Rs 1 crore bumper lottery prize drowned in an irrigation pool before he could get the money.
Dar was appointed as a daily wage employee in the state Health Department and has been on election duty since Wednesday.
Trump to sign an executive order aimed at achieving a more skills-based and merit-based immigration system.
The incident that claimed 43 live and left 16 injured brought back tragic memories of the Uphaar cinema hall blaze in 1997.
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Besides staging a hunger strike on March 31 in Chennai, the Nokia India Employees Union have decided to further step up their protest post the Lok Sabha elections.
'Log kehte hai desh to humne Modi ko diya hua hai, par pradesh nahi diya hai (we have given Modi the mandate to run the nation, not the state).'
The Rashtrapati Bhavan has come out with a communiqu announcing distribution of portfolios of the ministers sworn-in on Monday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers:
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday allocated portfolios to his six Cabinet colleagues while keeping the key departments of home, finance, power and vigilance with himself.
Every house in the Achota village of Dhamtari district in Chhattisgarh has children who roll bidis but are outside the scope of child labour laws.
Entrepreneurs would be able to apply online for 26 services.
The new body -- Maruti Suzuki Workers' Union -- has received its registration number from the Haryana Labour Department this week and the company has also decided to recognise it for any future negotiations at the plant.
Occupational disease has overtaken workplace accidents as the biggest danger to Chinese workers with 200 million potentially under threat Tang Chun, an occupational disease expert with the labour protection department under the Federation said.
Ten trade unions to go on strike to protest against changes in labour laws
Nokia is keen to shift its Chennai plant to Vietnam.
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