The explanation of the ruling Congress leaders that United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi was trying her best to evolve a broad consensus did not cut much ice with the voters.
These measures are in addition to other proposals made earlier, including regulation of sale and consumption of liquor, free trips to certain religious places like Sabarimala and distribution of one lakh cows every year.
The government is contemplating amending the existing law to avoid litigation in recovery of EPF dues from defaulting public and private sector undertakings, Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The government is targeting the creation of around five crore employment opportunities during the Tenth Plan, Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The seventh annual valuation report of the employees pension scheme has disclosed a projected deficit of Rs 19,291 crore (Rs 192.91 billion) as on March 31, 2003, Lok Sabha was told on Monday.
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
For the Congress to be taken seriously, it has to convince those around it that it could actually double its Lok Sabha seat share from the existing 52, and vote-share by a third more from the stagnating 20 per cent in 2014 and 2019, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Manmohan Singh and almost all his Cabinet colleagues were among those who drove to her 10, Janpath residence in New Delhi to wish her.
The government is likely to take a 'favourable' decision on enhancing the interest rate on Employees Provident Fund and the ministries of labour and finance are holding discussions on how to mobilise resources for it, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday
There is speculation that TRS president Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to get a portfolio in the Cabinet.
At places in the border districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer, people walked miles through the desert to cast their votes.
The Employees Provident Fund Board on Saturday recommended a 9.5 per cent interest rate for its around four crore (40 million) subscribers for 2004-05.
The TRS ensured that each citizen of Telangana is taken care of from cradle to grave.
The number of unemployed persons in the country was estimated at around 90 lakh (9 million), the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
"Very shortly we will come out with a concrete plan," Rao told reporters after meeting the Trinamool Congress president.
The meeting of Central Board of Trustees is likely to be stormy on Thursday with both right and left wing trade unions making up plans to demand at least 9.5 per cent EPF rate
Already embroiled in Sushma Swaraja and Vasundhara Raje controversies, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government does not want to get caught in a petty fight between two regional parties.
Superintendent of Police Malla Reddy said Koneru Krishna, brother of TRS MLA Koneru Kannappa, has been arrested and booked under various sections of the IPC.
A total of 74,44,260 voters will exercise their franchise using ballot papers to elect their representatives.
The Delhi Police has rejected the allegation of snooping on Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and said that the visit by policemen to his office was a routine practise of being in touch with the dignitaries.
Employment in the organised sector has gone down from 2.77 crore (27.7 million) in 2001 to 2.70 crore (27 million) in 2003, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
Trustees of the employees provident fund, which has a corpus of about Rs 1,30,000 crore (Rs 1300 billion), has decided against investing a portion of its assets in mutual funds and stock markets.
Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu rang up Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, who took over as Telangana's first Chief Minister on Monday and invited the latter to his swearing-in ceremony as Andhra Pradesh CM on June 8.
Fearing poaching from the BJP, the MLAs were moved and expected to be lodged in five-star hotels or resorts.
The YSR Congress is all set to wrest power in Andhra Pradesh, with the party on course to secure a landslide win, leaving the ruling Telugu Desam Party way behind in the assembly elections.
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The BJP has incorporated caste as a significant component of its politics.
Besides the chief minister of Telangana, Modi was accompanied by Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana E S L Narasimhan, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, Telangana's IT Minister K T Rama Rao and state Bharatiya Janata Party chief K Laxman in the much-awaited train's inaugural run.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced Rs 10,000 as immediate relief to each flood-hit household in Hyderabad, lashed by incessant rains since last week, besides an assistance of Rs 1 lakh each to those whose houses were completely destroyed and Rs 50,000 for the partially damaged.
Telangana Rashtriya Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao meets Rahul; reportedly open for alliance in the Lok Sabha polls if he can get to be the CM of the new state, says Kavita Chowdhury
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