The government aims to cover around 60 million people in the age category, irrespective of income, with an assured 5 lakh annually to be shared within the family. IMAGE: Senior citizens aged 70......
Banking, postal and other services are likely to face disruption on Wednesday as more than 25 crore workers affiliated with central and sectoral trade unions have announced to go on strike across......
'I was more at home in Maheshwar than in Dallas,' says Sally Holkar who left America and made India her home nearly 60 years ago. She went on a mission to revive a dying craft and changed the lives......
Senior bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar has been appointed the director general of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation, as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on......
The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation hospital in Mumbai has now decided to pay a full Rs 10 lakh compensation to the kin of two victims of last week’s fire. Both these victims......
While the move may give a competitive edge over rivals like Bangladesh in the global market, several industry bodies raised concerns that many state governments may not implement it on the ground.......
India's labour landscape is undergoing one of the biggest transformation in decades. The government has consolidated 29 pre-Independence and early post-Independence labour laws -- many of them......
Gross enrolments of new subscribers with ESIC were 1.49 crore during the entire financial year 2018-19. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Around 12.44 lakh jobs were created in October as......
Gross enrolments of new subscribers with the ESIC were 1.49 crore during 2018-19. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Around 12.66 lakh jobs were created in May, a tad higher than 11.15 lakh jobs......
Around 14.33 lakh jobs were created in November 2019 as compared with 12.60 lakh in the previous month, according to payroll data of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). Image......