In a bid to allay the apprehensions of the Left parties and the trade unions, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Monday said the Delhi and Mumbai airports were not being privatised
The central and state government employee unions asked various trade unions to advance the nationwide strike against "anti-employee" policies of the government and the Supreme court ruling banning strikes by government employees, to January 2004.
The docking of two Chinese submarines at the Colombo harbour in 2014 had angered India, which said it undermined its security interests.
A right-wing trade union movement in South Africa has launched a campaign to prevent Britain-based Indian origin steel baron Lakshmi Mittal's move to take control of two steel companies in the country.
Criticising the saffron party for "undermining democratic values" in the country, the chief minister said, "Democracy exists in Bengal but it is under threat in several other parts of the country."
The government has been taking steps to promote cashless or digital transactions to take India towards a less-cash economy
One of the key recommendations of the Lodha committee was to form a players' union and subsequently a steering committee was formed to facilitate the process.
The EPFO Board will for the third time meet in New Delhi on Tuesday to decide on the interest to be offered to its three crore subscribers this year, even as trade unions' demand higher returns.
Powerlooms and a lack of policy have pushed heritage art towards extinction, say Shreya Jai and Subhayan Chakraborty.
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Tapan Sen, on Friday termed as a 'drama' the Central Vigilance Commission referring a complaint to the Central Bureau of Investigation on alleged irregularities in use of coal blocks by some private firms.
After putting the Communist Party of India - Marxist in Kerala in the dock with his controversial comment about it eliminating political foes in the past, party leader M M Mani has once again purportedly made a similar claim, embarrassing the party further.
In the face of mounting pressure from trade unions, the Employees Provident Fund rates may remain untouched at 9.5 per cent this year though a sub-committee of the EPF Board is believed to have recommended slashing it to eight per cent.
Former colleagues recall the veteran political leader as a visionary with strong ground connect.
Energy major British Gas, which has already moved several jobs to India in recent years, is likely to move more jobs there after shortly carrying out redundancies in its office jobs in Leicestershire.
German name Volkswagen translates into English as the 'people's car'.
'The only system that will work is scientific socialism where there will be minimum contradictions, and where interests of the majority are taken care of.'
About 196 Regional Rural Banks will participate in the nationwide strike called by central trade unions and federation of bank employees on May 21, in protest against the 'anti-labour' policies of government.
The unions have also threatened to explore an indefinite strike option, if their demands were not addressed.
After assuming power in 2014 with a full majority of its own, the BJP-led NDA government started an ambitious process of reforming labour laws in the form of codes aimed at making the framework less cumbersome with a variety of alterations. It had planned four codes each for industrial relations, wages, social security and welfare, and occupational safety, health and working conditions. To this end, 35 central labour laws were to be converted into four codes that would have had the virtue of streamlining labour relations. But none of the proposed code Bills could be converted into a law principally because neither trade unions nor industry representatives came on board. They hold the key to India's low-growth-high unemployment paradigm but the government may struggle to push them through this time as well. Somesh Jha explains why
Expressing solidarity with agitating Maruti Suzuki workers, about a hundred protesters from various trade unions staged a demonstration outside Haryana Bhawan on Thursday, seeking the government's intervention for reversing the suspension and dismissal of workers by MSI.
Out of around 80 million accounts that were analysed, there were 10 million records with only names and no other details about the subscribers, including their date of joining, date of birth and father's name, among others, in the EPFO's records.
'Is the application the Press Council's voice or the government's? 'It has been reported that other members of the PCI were taken aback at the Press Council's application. 'These members need to publicly question the chairman to redeem their own positions,' says Jyoti Punwani.
The strike by bank employees is part of the one-day all-India general strike, called by major central trade unions.
According to official details unveiled by Downing Street on Friday, Trump will arrive for the two-day "working visit" next Thursday afternoon straight from a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium.
Alleging that Modi has launched a "big assault" on the workers, a combative Gandhi vowed to fight their battle like the Congress did for the farmers on the land acquisition bill.
'A proposal to do away with labour laws is not feasible.' 'That's why we wanted to have a dialogue with the states.'
Founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena in its more than five decades long journey has allied with the Congress, formally and informally.
Mumbai's Azad Maidan will be to be the venue for mass meetings and demonstrations for those participating in the nationwide general strike called by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions on Tuesday.
The anti-labour policies of the government will leave the employees in the lurch and take away all their safeguards, says V K Gupta, Delhi convenor of United Forum of Bank Unions.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday said it had documented cases where workers building venues for Russia's 2018 soccer World Cup had been left unpaid, made to work in dangerously cold conditions, or suffered reprisals for raising concerns.
UK-based workers of JLR rejected a pay hike offer, saying that it falls short of their expectations, giving rise to a possibility of strike.
FIFA will be warned by labour organisations that it faces an international campaign to move the 2022 World Cup from Qatar unless it ensures the host nation respects workers' rights.
The mass Jallikattu protests on Chennai's Marina beach showed no sign of dying out on Friday, even after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam promised that a draft ordinance aimed at ensuring the conduct of the traditional bull-taming sport has been submitted to the home ministry.
Thousands passengers who travel by air or rail were hit hard by nationwide strike called by various trade unions in Delhi, when they found that there were no taxis and autos at the airport and Delhi railway stations.
Buses kept off the roads and shops were closed in the state.
Centre of Indian Trade Unions district secretary Muthukumar said the workers were arrested when they tried to stage an agitation in front of the plant at Sriperumbudur.
Besides late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and former prime minister Indira Gandhi, NCP president Sharad Pawar also figured in the posters.
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