Union Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said on Tuesday that the Central Board of Trustees would be meeting on May 31 at New Delhi for reviewing the interest rate of employees provident fund.
Radical preacher Amritpal Singh's aide and kidnapping accused Lovepreet Singh walked out of a jail in Amritsar on Friday, hours after a court in Ajnala ordered his release based on an application by the police.
Spokesman of the Indian Pilots' Guild, Captain Mahesh Gulwani, said the decision to withdraw the stir followed three rounds of talks with Union Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday assured justice to the families of three civilians who were found dead last week after being allegedly picked up by the Army following an ambush on two of Army vehicles in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.
Farmers from Punjab clashed with Haryana police at two border points between the states on Tuesday, facing tear gas and water cannons as they tried to break past barricades blocking their protest march to the national capital. The police lobbed tear gas shells -- some of them dropped from a drone -- and tried to disperse groups of stone-pelting protesters in the face-off that last several hours at Shambhu border near Ambala in Haryana.
Please promise, especially those millions who trust you with their hard-earned money, never to let your voting preferences determine your actions on the markets. The most appalling and scary phenomenon was fund houses and brokerages going out on election yatras and writing copious reports promising more than 300 for the BJP. That was your wish as voters. Your investors are paying for it now, points out Shekhar Gupta.
However, there is no official confirmation on Brar's detention yet, Punjab Police officials said on Friday.
All eyes went teary as wheelchair-bound Singh had an emotional meeting with his sister Kulsoom Akhtar at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur in Pakistan's Punjab province on Wednesday.
In a bid to take forward labour reforms, the government on Thursday said units in the special economic zones will be exempted from making contributions to Employees Provident Fund and Employees State Insurance for five years.
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.
India will soon write to the International Labour Organisation seeking its help to combat the scourge of penury and bring down the poverty ratio to 19 per cent by 2007 from the present level of 26 per cent.\n\n\n\n
The Central Board of Trustees of Employees Provident Fund Organisation is likely to cut the EPF interest by one per cent from the present 9.5 per cent when it meets on May 31.
Verma, who till recently was strongly opposed to any cut in EPF rates, however, appeared to have softened his stand as he cited the current lower interest rate regime in the country.\n\n\n\n
The Punjab government has informed the Akal Takht that 348 of the 360 people taken into preventive custody during a police crackdown against radical preacher Amritpal Singh have now been freed.
The government on Wednesday said it would put in place a new labour law within the next six months, incorporating reforms in the sector, as part of measures to bring it in tune with the liberalised environment.
The government on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that it would permit setting up of private employment exchanges to facilitate job opportunities in the country.\n\n
The labour ministry will soon submit a detailed plan on providing social security to 37 crore (370 million) workers in the unorganised sector to a Group of Ministers, which is examining the proposal and slated to meet next week.
Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma on Tuesday expressed confidence that the 9.5 per cent EPF interest rate could be maintained next year, in spite of the falling interest rates.
Agreeing to a partial rollover of the interest rate, the Central Board of Trustees of the EPFO on Friday asked the IFCI to pay 10 per cent on bonds issued by it for the next 10 years, starting from this fiscal.
Gandhi rued that the fourth estate was showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face round-the-clock and not raising issues like unemployment or inflation.
Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said on Monday that he will try to maintain the present interest rate of 9.5 per cent on Employees Provident Fund for 2003-04.
The government on Thursday assured that it will continue with the 9.5 per cent interest on Employees Provident Fund and said it was because of 'wise' investment decisions that it was able to offer such a rate.
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.
Channi slammed the AAP government over his date of appearance date being advanced and alleged it was part of the dispensation's "vendetta politics".
Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring also took exception to the jathedar's statement and dubbed it as "mischievous".
We may not be a super military power like the US, but we are the superpower in compassion, love and human values as taught to us by the Bhagavad Gita and the Guru Granth Sahib, says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.
Cops deployed in and around Marnaian village were also checking vehicles in the search of the radical preacher.
Whether it was the MGNREGS or the NFSA or the Aadhaar-based DBT scheme for cash transfer, the Modi government has built on the basic architecture created by the Singh government. Policy makers in the Modi government, instead of discarding them as products of the previous political regime, worked on them, expanded their scope and reach, and used new tools to improve their performance, explains A K Bhattacharya.
The Delhi Police has arrested a 30-year-old man and detained one more in connection with writing pro-Khalistan messages on the walls of four Delhi Metro stations ahead of the G20 Summit, officials said.
Alam sighed when he heard about Bedi's death before gathering his breath to pay tribute to one of the greatest spinners of all time.
Hundreds of Sikh youths, led by the Dal Khalsa, were carrying Khalistani flags and photographs of damaged Akal Takht.
At least nine separatist organisations supporting terror groups have their bases in Canada and despite multiple deportation requests Ottawa has taken no action against those involved in heinous crimes, including the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, officials in New Delhi said on Tuesday.
The Sarbjit team pays homage to Sarabjit Singh on his third death anniversary.
