Fresh formal job creation cooled for the second consecutive month to decline to a six-month low in September, signalling a downturn in the labour markets this financial year. The number of new monthly subscribers under the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) declined by 6.45 per cent to 891,583 in September from 953,092 in August, shows the latest payroll data released by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). Besides, the net payroll additions -- calculated by taking into account the number of new subscribers, the number of exits, and the return of old subscribers -- increased by 14.9 per cent to 1.72 million in September from 1.49 million in August.
During the raid, some incriminating documents and audiocassettes, containing speeches of extremists, were recovered from him, police added.
The Bihar Police's Economic Offences Unit, which is probing the alleged National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG) paper leak case, on Saturday claimed to have obtained reference question papers of the test conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) and planned to compare these with documents recovered from a flat in Patna during a search operation last month.
In a move that may hit private courier operators hard, the government on Thursday proposed to stop them from carrying letters weighing below 300 grams.
The commuters moving between Delhi and Haryana were either stuck up for hours on the closed borders or walked on foot to reach their respective destinations.
It will escalate costs, mandate regulator to check malpractices, set standards.
The directorate said money was hidden inside books and greeting cards and could not have been easily detected by X-ray machines. The incident came to light after ED officials, acting on a tip-off, searched the regional office of the courier service in Naraina in Delhi.
Bankers and couriers to almost the entire diamond industry, which swear by their superiority to India Post or any other courier service.
Lakadbaggha takes up too many issues and does not do justice to them, points out Deepa Gahlot.
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Revenue of Indian postal services has increased to Rs 4431.85 crore in 2004-05 from Rs 3297 crore in 2000-01, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
A silent revolution is taking place in the country's airports and ports -- one that will alter India's notoriously troublesome Customs clearance procedures, both at entry and exit points.Export consignments will no longer have to undergo the drudgery of long Customs clearance procedures. And the facility will be extended to courier services or even passengers after some time. Such a system exists for imported goods and has met with a huge success.
The new date of CLAT-2009 Test shall be announced shortly after details are worked out by the Core Committee of Eleven Vice-Chancellors of National Law Universities.
A host of conspiracy theories followed, involving Indira Gandhi, her younger son Sanjay, his favourite small car project, secret funding of the Bangladesh Mukti Bahini and even the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.
It said the decision will immediately benefit approximately 7.8 lakh paramilitary personnel of the ranks of constable, head constable and assistant sub-inspector who were otherwise not eligible earlier.
The government on Thursday approved a slew of foreign direct investment proposals worth Rs 193 crore (Rs 1.93 billion) including one by global courier service major DHL Worldwide to enhance stake in its domestic arm.
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A courier company owner was arrested for allegedly evading service tax of about Rs 70 lakh
What is digital house arrest? It is a tactic cybercriminals use to confine victims to their homes and scam them, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
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Statements of five 'Angadiya' firm operators have also been recorded by the ED to establish the "money trail" of this alleged Rs 45 crore bribe amount.
The teenager's simple idea to solve a problem has been developed into an app which launched July 18 in Mumbai.
Besides, various representatives of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and their allies are also aiding in hand-delivering the invitations.
Ad agencies JWT, Ogilvy and Grey International have more than a parent in common. In India, at least, executives from these agencies fly the same airline, stay in the same hotel chains or send documents through the same courier company.
Six decades and more later, we are now captives of our identities. Every poll is based on elaborate calculations of electability of candidates on the basis of their castes and other narrow definers. That, along with voter promiscuity, is what defines our political culture, which remains stubbornly resistant to any change, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
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Karti, through his lawyer, has refused to appear before the agency saying a special court had discharged all the accused in the matter.
IT and IT-enabled services will be allowed to operate with essential minimum staff only while the rest would work from home.
Overall foreign inflows into the country grew by 8 per cent to $ 24.29 in the last fiscal as against $ 22.42 billion in 2012-13.
The equity cult has grown at a rapid pace in India in the last few years, with retail investors latching on to the stock markets like never before. At 126.6 million, the number of dematerialised (demat) accounts, where investors hold their securities in electronic form for trading purposes, are at record high levels. The growth rate, on an annualised basis, stood at 27 per cent in 2022-2023, up from barely 6 per cent a decade ago.
As a result, vehicular traffic and movement of people on roads saw a consequential increase in most parts of the state including rural regions, the State capital and key cities like Coimbatore, Madurai, and Tiruchirappalli.
FDI inflows into services sector grew by about 47 per cent to $2.64 billion in April-January last fiscal.
Overall foreign inflows in the country rose by 27%.
Earlier last month, for the first time ever, an anonymous hacker was served with a restraining order as a non-fungible token (NFT), reports Shivani Shinde.
A day after the Patna high court slammed the Bihar government for its poor handling of the second wave of the pandemic and sought to know whether it was enforcing lockdown or not, the administration on Tuesday announced imposition of lockdown from May 5 to May 15.
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