'While the poor have little say in shaping India's intellectual or public discourse, they do have a significant role in deciding political outcomes,' points out Roshan Kishore.
The British government has been under pressure to help a sale process go through after Tata said it would sell its British business.
Days after medical representatives said their employers were flouting the government's drug-pricing norms, the pharmaceutical industry has decided to clip their wings. These companies want them to be no longer recognised as "workmen," a classification that gives them the right to form trade unions.
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal has intensified efforts to acquire his younger brother Pramod Mittal's ailing Kremikovtzi steel plant in Bulgaria, even as workers of the plant continued to protest over delayed wages. "Around 1,000 workers at Kremikovtzi continued their protests on Thursday over delayed salaries and food allowance payments," the Steel Business Briefing reported quoting a spokesman for the trade union Militzi.
With the MoD loosening its hold over its shipyards, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers buzzes with a capitalist energy never seen before in the 124-year history of that shipyard.
Steel tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal's move to revive and take over the sick steel plant of his brother, Pramod Mittal, in Bulgaria is facing hurdles after a major trade union representing over 2,000 workers raised its opposition.
The government says MPs will be busy campaigning in Gujarat. The Opposition counters this, saying campaigning for elections in 5 states was held in the midst of the Budget session earlier this year.
The Central Board of Trustees of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) today decided to retain the previous year's interest rate of 8.5 per cent for the current fiscal.
In the midst of a hectic campaign schedule, Modi needs to find time to meet visiting leaders and attend the East Asia Summit in the Philippines.
A company can not even stop workers from sticking posters in the premises, said Justice J H Bhatia in his judgement last month.
Facing flak over its decision to impose tax at the time of withdrawal on 60 per cent of the contributions to Employees' Provident Fund, the government on Tuesday clarified that only interest accrued on 60 per cent contribution to EPF after April 1, 2016 will be taxed.
Protests by supporters of ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and several other outfits, including party affiliated trade unions intensified across the state against the conviction of Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case, seeking her early release.
As the government tabled insurance bill in the Parliament on Monday, trade unions of public sector firms called for a strike on Tuesday against the move that aims to raise FDI limit in the private insurers to 49 per cent and the minimum paid up capital in LIC to Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion).
It's a middle path for labour reforms.
'By holding forth on Swadeshi economics, Bhagwat is showing his intent to fight back,' says Shekhar Gupta.
"We should encourage greater outward investment by provident funds and insurance companies when inflows are high. Such diversification will make these funds more stable (give them less exposure to high volatility India markets)," said the draft report of the the Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, headed by former IMF Chief Economist Raghuram G Rajan.
'He is seeking to harness the power of Indian Diasporas to national (support for India in global capitals) and political (enhance the Bharatiya Janata Party's support base) ends.'
American carmaker Ford is expected to announce on Wednesday the sale of its premium British car brands Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors for a consideration of about $2 billion. Local media reported that the agreement will include a pledge by Ford to contribute to the two brands' pension fund, and by Tata to continue buying engines from Ford both sensitive points with trade unions.
Indian Railways may not be privatised, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
NITI Aayog wants the prime minister's flagship initiative should focus on labour-intensive sectors and policies that impede their growth to get special attention.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter visited Qatar's emir on Sunday and said that while progress has been made in improving workers' rights in the 2022 World Cup host nation, more still needed to be done.
India's largest central trade union, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, said on Monday it will mobilise workers and public against Special economic zones by launching nation-wide protests from July 16 to 23.
The amendment bill will be made effective from April 1, 2015.
'The writer remains the most creative force in the process.' 'Producers need to be inventive in how they reward good writing.'
The defence ministry has lost sight of what it intended to achieve -- which was to nurture private defence firms that would compete on equal terms with the 9 defence PSUs and the 41 Ordnance Factory Board factories.
Tata said last week it was "committed to seeking all credible options in an urgent manner"
The 11 Indian officials of a steel company, abducted in Nigeria two days back, have been released.
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) may be back on track with its plans for an initial public offer (IPO). The public sector enterprise has placed a proposal for approval of the IPO to its trade union and it expects a positive response by June 3.
The law was amended to bring parity between public and private sector employees (including PSUs) after the gratuity limit was raised for central government on similar lines
'What is this new PF rule? Complete nonsense!' 'I want my PF money right now and not when I am 58 years old.'
Aiming to come up with a collective response to the government and employers' push for labour market reforms for increased employment and productivity, an international seminar of trade unionists got underway in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The past few weeks have seen several hundred people let go of by IT services firms joining unions claiming to represent tech workers fighting for their rights.
The bill also seeks to enhance the eligibility limit for payment of bonus from the salary or wage of an employee from Rs 10,000 per month to Rs 21,000.
The CPI-backed AITUC has proposed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to utilise pension funds and employees provident fund for infrastructure development instead of investment in the speculative capital markets.
Moving the court of Justices Ranjana Desai and Dilip Bhosale, Harish Bhalchandra Vichare's lawyer C U Singh said, "He (Vichare) has vital information about the incident in question and wants to give the information to state CID."
Senior CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta said the gap between the Left and United progressive Alliance was widening.
The EPF Board on Saturday once again deferred decision on the contentious issue of interest rate for its four crore subscribers till the next meeting to facilitate more consultations between the Labour and Finance ministries.
The activists of various green groups called on the French authorities on Monday, urging them not to scrap the decommissioned French warship - Clemenceau - in ship-breaking yards in India.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere in the arrest of five rights activists in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case and declined to appoint a SIT for probe into their arrest.
Left-affiliated trade unions on Thursday enforced a nationwide day-long general strike to protest the 'anti-people' economic and labour policies of the United Progressive Alliance government.
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