Pledging UK's support to India in its fight against terrorism in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, a motion moved in the House of Commons said that Britain would ensure its territory is not used as a base for supporting this kind of terrorist attacks.
The child, whose parents work as labourers in a factory, was beaten and brutalised with a sharp object. She is critical and on oxygen support, said a senior doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where she is admitted.
In a relief to the management of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI), which is facing labour unrest, a civil court in Gurgaon has ordered the local administration, including police, to evict striking contract workers.
Besides managing retirement funds, EPFO may come out with a scheme to provide housing to its over 5 crore (50 million) subscribers on additional contribution of 10 per cent by them from their basic wages every month.
Some unions have opposed EPFO investing in share markets.
After about 58 hours of rescue operation involving different agencies, the child, daughter of a farm labourer, was found dead.
May told the House of Commons that the UK remained in regular contact with both countries and was working towards de-escalating tensions.
The Finance Ministry has been pitching for EPFO funds to be invested in the equity markets to maximise their yields.
The central government has notified the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) rate of interest at 8.5 per cent for 2006-07. The Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of EPF, in July, had recommended interest at 8.5 per cent. The government has now accorded its approval to notify the specified rate of interest for the year.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked the Bharatiya Janata Party why are they preventing peasants from coming to Delhi to raise their demands.
The amendment now makes it compulsory for corporate PF trusts to comply with the Employees Provident and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, and to claim exemptions under Section 17 of the same Act.
The suspected serial killers of nine persons, including a woman, allegedly used to lure their victims with liquor and the services of sex workers before smashing their heads with boulders.
'The situation is especially serious in major hotspot districts or emerging hotspots like Ahmedabad and Surat (Gujarat), Thane (Maharashtra), Hyderabad (Telangana), and Chennai (Tamil Nadu),' the MHA statement said.
A section of the under-construction wall of Bhalla Complex, which houses warehouses, collapsed at around 1.15 pm leading to the casualties, he said.
At least 25 persons were drowned and several others missing on Wednesday morning after a bus fell into the Gobind Sagar reservoir at Rayian near Bilaspur, 95-km from Shimla.
The Economic Offences Wing of the city police arrested Gawli, the president of the Akhil Bharatiya Sena.
'It is a ticking time bomb if the authorities don't come forward to help these hapless people.'
External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Saturday defended herself against allegations of helping former IPL chief Lalit Modi saying she never requested or recommended travel documents for him.
Here is all you need to know about the National Population Register and worries over its links with NRC.
Indian mango growers are suffering daily and some have been bankrupted.
In view of allegations by trade unions that Employees Provident Fund Organisation was "fraught with corruption", the Labour Minstry has convened a Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting on December 14 to discuss the functioning of the EPFO.
Under attack from Left parties for slashing the EPF rate by one per cent for the current fiscal, Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday promised to do everything possible for "best returns
The number of contributors was 46.4 million in July and 44 million in September.
Stating that dialogue strengthens democracies, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today thanked the British Members of Parliament for inviting him to the United Kingdom in the spirit of dialogue and engagement.
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.
On November 8, Sharma's wife Kiran, who was pregnant, was admitted to the nursing home for tests, including sonography. She was expected to deliver a baby around December 7. On November 9, Kiran went into labour prematurely and gave birth to a boy at home before she could be taken to hospital. Afterwards the mother and the boy were rushed to the nursing home.
The facility for viewing PF accounts online was launched here by Labour Minister Sis Ram Ola in the presence of Minister of State for Labour and Employment Kodikunnil Suresh and EPFO's Central Provident Fund Commissioner K K Jalan.
At least 12 labourers were in the under-construction building and all of them are feared trapped, Chief Fire Officer Arun Kumar Singh said.
Banks, ATMs and quite a few markets were kept open on Sunday while 2.5 lakh sacrificial goats have been made available in the Kashmir valley to help citizens celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with traditional fervour.
The operation to pull out a six-year old boy trapped in an abandoned borewell at a farm in nearby Sulikeri village in Karnataka's Bagalkot district was halted on the sixth day on Friday as his mother led a protest by villagers seeking an end to it.
The financial fraud, one of the biggest in the state as per records, was being investigated by the different departments of Himachal Pradesh for the past over four years.
The victims, from Jharkhand and Nepal, were engaged in the Rohtang tunnel construction project.
'The main reason people go to other countries is unemployment in Punjab'
The decision will benefit over nine crore such account holders having total deposit of around Rs 32,000 crore.
'PM-CARES money is for the relief of citizens, so what is the secrecy then?' 'Why will it harm anyone if it is revealed where the money came from and where it is going?' 'What is there to hide?'
The Union Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said on Friday that he would soon make public the names and other details of the major provident fund defaulters.
CM Manohar Lal Khattar made the announcement after meeting the family members of Pradyuman.
The weatherman said when 'Amphan' makes the landfall between West Bengal's Digha, some 180 km from Kolkata, and Hatiya island in Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon or evening, it will pack sustained wind speed of 155 to 165 kmph, gusting at 185 kmph. The gale-force wind, blowing at a speed of 240 to 250 kmph and gusting to 275 kmph at one point, had lost intensity and was moving at a speed of 200 to 210 kmph, gusting to 230 kmph on Tuesday evening.
Kumaraswamy predicted that the political instability would continue in the state.
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