Every bank offers a different slab of minimum balance to customers, based on which 'free services' are provided
The tragedy had struck the tea gardens of the twin districts of Golaghat and Jorhat after a large number of their workers consumed the spurious liquor on Thursday night.
The speaker said she was ready to start the debate right away if the House agreed. The debate has been listed in Monday's list of business under Rule 193.
Congress says the notification required to be issued under the RBI Act for printing new currency has not been issued.
Despite stiff opposition from local businesses, the California senate has passed a controversial Bill banning state agencies from contracting services to companies that use overseas labour.
Both Houses were adjourned multiple times as Opposition members kept on shouting slogans against the PM.
Almost all the deceased were migrant labourers hailing from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
The rhetoric by politicians, labour unions and media against outsourcing of jobs to countries like India is having the opposite effect, as the campaign has opened the eyes of small businesses to the possibilities of offshoring.
He congratulated the Uttar Pradesh government and industrialists for their commitment for development.
If the Modi government's approach to economic policy making is any indication, expectations of a sudden spurt in economic reforms after the assembly election results appear to be grossly misplaced.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday asked why India's highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, has not been conferred on former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
"The RSS is trying to change the nature of India. Other parties haven't tried to capture India's institutions," he said.
Flowing from an inadequate understanding of Tamil history and politics is an urban elitist mindset that does not seem to be able to touch and feel the real angst of the larger Tamil-speaking masses, cutting across the social and economic status of the individual, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'The UPA was the gang that couldn't shoot straight. The NDA is the gang that can't stop shooting. They (the Modi government) are shooting at anybody, everybody, all directions, shooting themselves in the foot.'
In five years, per-employee revenue for IT companies grew at 9 per cent each year.
Sangh affiliates believe the government's apparent anti-poor message led to their loss
After debating the motion put forward by May in the House of Commons, 522 of the 650 sitting MPs voted in favour of the June 8 election, passing the threshold of two-thirds needed to approve the plan.
8,000 asylum-seekers reach Germany in a single day amid deepening refugee crisis
The Labour Ministry has relaxed investment norms for retirement fund manager EPFO, but refrained from allowing the body to invest a part of its huge corpus of around Rs 5 lakh crore in equity markets.
'The government's full five-year term is unlikely to deliver more than 7+ per cent growth.' 'That's creditable, but no different from the 7.2 per cent achieved in the previous five years (2009 to 2014).' 'Those who expected the change of government to deliver a change of tempo would be disappointed,' says T N Ninan.
Govt looking for common ground on GST; hopes to pass it soon.
Prez says that India has not assured the United States that it will provide 'equitable and reasonable access to its markets'.
EPF is the major vehicle for the long-term savings of organised private sector employees.
'Refusing to implement the CAA-NRC, as some states have done via resolutions in state assemblies, is a violation of the Constitution; an attempt to alter the fundamental structure of our democracy and a recipe for anarchy,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led party believes that art appeals to everyone and there is no better way to connect than through street theatres.
In a nearly 25-minute televised address to the nation, Modi said implementation of the lockdown will be strictly ensured in its second phase and detailed guidelines will be brought out on Wednesday to ensure that outbreak does not spread to new areas.
Britain is due to leave the European Union by October 31, with Johnson racing against time to strike a deal to meet that deadline.
The election campaign finally ended on Friday, May 17. Arindam Majumder reveals what he discovered on the election front on a long rail journey.
Rahul Gandhi has the potential to grow into a good, effective, leader of the Opposition provided he puts his heart and soul into it, with a willingness to learn, says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant who worked closely with India's first three prime ministers.
'I don't believe in jumlebaazi.' 'Kahan hua hai sabka saath, sabka vikas?'
'There is economic danger: Not inflation, but a slowdown that feeds an employment crisis,' says T N Ninan.
'He is not looking at the interest of farmers. He only wants to do the politics of elections.' 'This Budget is for the new super India. It is exploiting the villages of Bharat.'
'You can't make the poor rich overnight.' 'Nor can you fly millions in planes.' 'But remember that word: Empathy.' 'Who in the BJP is speaking in that language to these millions?' 'Someone putting an arm of understanding, warmth, comfort around them?', asks Shekhar Gupta.
Employees face a bleak future, CPI (M) said.
The police is investigating whether it was 'accidental or deliberate'.
The Congress leader, responsible for the party's victory in the recent bypolls, has slogged it out, meeting people, establishing contact and listening, all the time, to people.
About 200 employees were detained across the state in connection with incidents related to strike
'What shame is there in the government accepting a drought situation and taking appropriate measures to help people live?' a Marathwada farmer asks Neeta Kolhatkar.
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