The Major Ports Authority Bill, 2020 was passed through ballot votes in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with 84 votes in its favour and 44 against it. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on September 23 last year.
A section of Air India pilots, who have threatened to go on strike tomorrow demanding pay parity and better working conditions, on Tuesday, met the Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) as part of the conciliation process.
'It indicates the grooming of the party's new leadership.' 'It is also a signal to the states that these ministers represent.'
Considered a Labour stronghold, the Crewe and Nantwich seat was won convincingly by Conservative candidate Edward Timpson, registering the party's first by-election gain in 26 years. Timpson won 7,860 more votes, which was the margin of victory of the Labour's candidate, Gwyneth Dunwoody, in the last election.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has raised India's long-standing concerns about pro-Khalistan extremism in the United Kingdom during his meetings with the country's leaders, stressing that they should be on guard against the misuse of freedom of expression and speech.
The state's joblessness is three times higher than the national average of 7.8 per cent.
India's stiff labour laws were one key issue that Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed with Prime Minister Modi on his recent visit.
The 41 workers, who were rescued from Uttarakhand's Silkyara tunnel in a multi-agency rescue operation, kept their spirits up while trapped inside by taking morning walks and practising yoga, a rescued worker told Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Farmers protesting to press the Centre for their various demands will stay put at the two protest sites on the Punjab-Haryana border till February 29 when the next course of action will be decided, their leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said on Friday.
Naveen Patnaik is known as an "absentee landlord" who needs bureaucrats like Pandian to run his government.
Union ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai and farmer leaders from Punjab will meet on Sunday for the fourth round of talks.
In the first such initiative, the Bharatiya Janata Party has invited the ruling and Opposition parties from around the world to witness the Lok Sabha elections in India first-hand.
Child labour is an issue in India which must be tackled soon.
The NDMA member further stated that the health conditions of the rescued workers will be monitored for the next 48 to 72 hours.
Indian policymakers must realise that in buying small quantities of equipment, it becomes hard to start manufacturing them in India, explains Ajai Shukla.
West Bengal minister Jakir Hossain was seriously injured after unidentified attackers hurled a crude bomb at him on Nimtita railway station in Murshidabad district on Wednesday night, police said.
>Rohini Acharya, Lalu Yadav's daughter who donated her kidney to her father in December 2022, is on her introductory campaign trail in the constituency that has been represented by her father four times.
The situation raises concerns about whether the promised freebies will once again push the state into a revenue deficit.
American trainers and technical know-how will be provided to India to assist in these areas.
Former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan said India will still remain a lower middle country if the potential growth rate remains at 6 per cent annually without any rise in population by 2047 (Amrit Kaal) and will be reaching the end of the demographic dividend by then. Speaking at a programme organised by Manthanon on Saturday, the economist said if the country does not grow faster, it will grow older (demographically) before it gets richer, which means there is the burden of an aging population to deal with also at that point. Rajan said the GDP growth in India for the past two quarters was in the region of 7.5 per cent and if one looks at the labor force participation, it is very low and when it comes to female participation, "it is the lowest in the G20".
In the video, the workers, wearing yellow and white helmets, are seen receiving food items sent to them through the pipeline and talking to each other.
The Baghel government had earlier said it fulfilled the 2018 promise and waived agriculture loans worth Rs 9,270 crore of 18.82 lakh farmers in the state.
At least six labourers were killed and over 50 feared trapped after an under-construction bridge on the Chambal river collapsed in Kota on Thursday night.
Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India had recently stated that real estate projects were experiencing time and cost overruns due to shortage of labour because of schemes like Nrega.
In an embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Party, 10 of its incumbent ministers have lost the polls, even as the ruling party led by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan scored a hat-trick in the assembly polls
Rescue workers pulled out all 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand's Silkyara tunnel in a multi-agency rescue operation that hovered between hope and despair for 16 days.
In an election considered crucial to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's future, Israel's Labour Party, the second largest faction in the governing coalition, has failed to choose its chairman in the first round of voting.
A high performance drilling machine was brought in Uttarkashi from Indore on Saturday to pierce through the rubble of the collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route and was being assembled before it is deployed to resume drilling, officials at the site said.
"In view of contracting global demand, we have to focus on domestic demand by stimulating demand in rural areas and labour intensive sectors," External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is holding charge of the finance portfolio, said. "We must support the development of those sections which immediately boost growth and throw up employment opportunities." Sectors that specifically sought enhancement of bank credit were infrastructure, rural credit, consumer credit, MSME.
Once approved by the finance ministry, the rate hike will benefit six crore EPFO subscribers.
In a move which will shrink jobs for India, Indonesia, Bangladesh immigrants, the Malaysian authorities said they expect to halve the construction sector's dependence on foreign labour when a new system is adopted reducing manual labour by 80 per cent.
The Karnataka legislative assembly on Tuesday passed bills enhancing the salaries and allowances of the chief minister, ministers and legislators.
'The BJP's real weapons are Hindutva, organisation and finance.'
Nath said talking about "mandir-masjid" will not generate employment.
Emerging out of the ED grilling in Mumbai, Rohit Pawar denied any wrongdoing and asserted struggle was imminent in fight for ideology while declaring he wasn't scared.
Ramesh opposes Pawar's plan to provide cheap labour to farmers under NREGS.
"The new food supply pipeline has also made it easier to supply better food in larger quantities to them, which is a good thing. Otherwise the situation remains the same," said Negi, who spoke to his brother.
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