The saffron party which has a lot at stake in the last two phases of polling scheduled for March 4 and 8 has moved its war room to Varanasi, entrusting Union ministers and senior leaders with the task of strengthening the campaign with the prime minister in the vanguard.
As many as 48 ministers of National Democratic Allaince government were in the fray in the general elections.
'Mr Minister, it has been more than five years for your government. There is no job creation. Whatever jobs were there, they have been snatched due to the economic slowdown brought by the government. You want to escape by insulting North Indians'
Breaking a long tradition, the PMO has ensured that specific divisions in each ministry are allocated to junior ministers.
The NDA govt launched the Mudra scheme to give unsecured loans of up to Rs 10 lakh to small enterprises with the objective to provide self-employment
The agency said it searched a Mumbai-based operator who was running 700 shell companies with 20 dummy directors and had "converted Rs 46.7 crore for Chaggan Bhujbal", the jailed ex-Maharashtra deputy chief minister.
The Reserve Bank of India collects credit information from banks under the CRILC reporting system for borrowers with the credit exposure greater than Rs 5 crore.
Former India cricket captain Bishen Singh Bedi said the appointment "defies all logic".
The Code on Wages Bill, 2019 seeks to amend and consolidate the laws relating to wages, bonus and matters connected therewith. The Bill will subsume four labour laws -- Minimum Wages Act, Payment of Wages Act, Payment of Bonus Act and Equal Remuneration Act. About 50 crore labourers will benefit.
Economy has become a major cause of concern for the new government with GDP dropping to 5.8 per cent in the last quarter of the 2018-19.
The ceiling of gratuity amount under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, has been raised from time to time keeping in view overall economic condition and employers' capacity to pay and the salary of employees, which have been increased in private sector and in PSUs.
'Bachpan se hi mujhe sabki madad karna pasand hai,' says the fearless lad who says he will readily risk his life again if the occasion so demanded.
Directions have been issued to about 48 industrial units polluting River Ganga to close down, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.
Gas Authority of India Ltd, the country's largest gas distributor, and Turkey's Botas Petroleum Pipeline Corp, will sign a pact to jointly build cross-country pipelines and gas retailing projects, India's junior oil minister said.\n\n\n\n
Companies awarded blocks in three rounds of India's New Exploration Licencing Policy are expected to invest $3 billion in exploration, junior oil minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said on Tuesday.\n\n\n\n
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation has proposed to shed about 11 per cent of its workforce by offering the surplus staff a VRS, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
However, the government has enacted an important change to the fixed-term employment framework that may help companies in handing out contractual jobs to its existing permanent workforce.
Exports of 'Made-in-India' vehicles have touched Rs 2,928 crore (Rs 29.28 billion) during April-October 2003 after growing by 32.4 per cent in value terms during 2002-03 to Rs 3,396 crore (Rs 33.96 billion).
India imported 3.928 million tonnes of crude oil from Iraq during the first 11 months of 2002-03, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
India's crude oil import bill has jumped by about Rs 9,125 crore (Rs 91.25 billion) in the first nine months of current fiscal, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Sitharaman said the Bill has proposed giving a legal framework for fixed-term employment through which contract workers serving a fixed-tenure will get equal statutory social security benefits as regular workers in the same unit.
A litre of petrol would have cost just Rs 13.64 in Delhi but for the number of levies and taxes on it which jack up the retail selling price to Rs 32.49 per litre, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.\n\n\n\n
The government also ruled out having a re-look at the present reservation system.
Though the Cabinet reshuffle on July 5 has a clear stamp of the Prime Minister's Office, the changes have also increased the coherence between the Bharatiya Janata Party, the government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
UP now has 16 ministers, the maximum from any state, in an apparent bid to keep the Dalit and other backward class votebank content.
Apart from Smriti, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ananth Kumar took over as law and parliamentary affairs ministers respectively.
The EPFO had decided that 8.15 per cent interest from its debt income would be credited immediately and the remaining 0.35 per cent capital gains from the equity sale would be given later, subject to its redemption.
Sharply divided maulanas appear to have paved way for a smooth sailing for Bharatiya Janata Party nominee Santosh Kumar Gangwar in Bareilly.
However, the hike in salary for government officials may take some time as the Centre had earlier this year decided to put a freeze on any hike in the DA of its employees till July, 2021, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rajya Sabha was informed that both RBI and banks have enough cash
It took a lockdown for us in India to even recognise that the plight of migrants needs to be addressed. They were faceless and unrecognised. They were unappreciated and even hounded. They were poorly paid and exploited, notes Ramesh Menon.
After taking benefit of the scheme, jobs increased by around 11 mn in establishments that took loans.
Sitharaman, who was holding the Commerce portfolio (Independent charge), was on Sunday promoted to the Cabinet rank as was Goyal.
Between April-June 2016-17, the additional excise duty mop up on these two products stood at Rs 17,692 crore.
The remaining 0.35 per cent will be credited in December this year, if the EPFO is able to redeem its equity investments.
Small Factories Act, Industrial Relations Code likely to be redrafted under pressure from Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
A wall hanging featuring Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad left the prime minister in awe
For the first time, Subramanian said, "the Economic Survey has embraced Big Data, and we mine this data to shed new light on the flow of goods and people within India."
Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath was on Wednesday sworn-in as the Protem Speaker of the newly constituted Lok Sabha by President Pranab Mukherjee.
The move will help industries in pushing authorities for exemption under various labour laws at a micro-level, along with demanding changes to bring greater flexibility in their operations related to retrenchment, safety standards, and collective bargaining.
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