Government exploring options to roll out labour codes

Government exploring options to roll out labour codes

New Delhi: The government is considering various strategies to ensure a nationwide rollout of the four labour codes even though some states and Union territories are yet to come out with draft rules under one or more of these codes.The ministry of labour and employment is considering several options including a gradual repeal of the … Read more

Katchatheevu festival | Pilgrims from other States disappointed due to cancellation of festival by Tamil Nadu organisers

Katchatheevu festival | Pilgrims from other States disappointed due to cancellation of festival by Tamil Nadu organisers

Pilgrims from other States who reached Rameswaram were disappointed due to the cancellation of the Katchatheevu festival on February 23, 2024 | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar A large number of pilgrims from Karnataka and other States, who had planned to go to the two-day annual Katchatheevu festival at St. Antony’s Church, were disappointed as the … Read more

PM Modi does not like States, thinks of them as Municipalities: T.N. CM Stalin

PM Modi does not like States, thinks of them as Municipalities: T.N. CM Stalin

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. File | Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan Prime Minister Narendra Modi neither liked the existence of States nor the Chief Ministers in the country, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin charged on Thursday, February 8, 2024. Unlike previous Prime Ministers who respected the States and their people, Mr. Modi … Read more

IIHR technologies help improve food and nutrition security among tribals in various States: Union Agriculture Minister  

IIHR technologies help improve food and nutrition security among tribals in various States: Union Agriculture Minister  

Various technologies developed and promoted by ICAR – Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) have had a great impact on tribal areas in many States, noted Arjun Munda, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare during his maiden visit to IIHR on Sunday.  He said that eight major technologies from the institute were selected and … Read more

BJP not going to win in any of the five States which went to polls: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot

BJP not going to win in any of the five States which went to polls: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot being greeted by people as he arrives to cast his vote for the Rajasthan Assembly elections on November 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said the BJP was not going to win in any of the five States which went to polls this month, … Read more

Drugs, cash, liquor worth over ₹1,760 crore seized in five poll-going states: EC

Drugs, cash, liquor worth over ₹1,760 crore seized in five poll-going states: EC

The Election Commission said over ₹1,760 crore worth of freebies, drugs, cash, liquor and precious metals have been seized so far aimed at inducing voters in the five poll-going states. | Photo Credit: MOORTHY RV The Election Commission on Monday said over ₹1,760 crore worth of freebies, drugs, cash, liquor and precious metals aimed at … Read more

Maharashtra-Telangana boundary villages | One voter, two States, two votes

Maharashtra-Telangana boundary villages | One voter, two States, two votes

November 12, 2023 01:27 am | Updated 01:29 am IST – Chandrapur/K.B. Asifabad Amidst the desolate hilly terrain between Jivti taluk of Chandrapur district in Maharashtra and Kerameri mandal in Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district in Telangana, are 14 villages in the Parandoli and Anthapur gram panchayats. Here, 3,023 residents, of a population of about 5,000, … Read more

Operation ‘Chakra-II’: CBI conducts searches at 76 places across 11 States to dismantle cyber-enabled crime syndicates

Operation ‘Chakra-II’: CBI conducts searches at 76 places across 11 States to dismantle cyber-enabled crime syndicates

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) logo at CBI HQ in New Delhi. Representative image | Photo Credit: PTI The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday conducted searches at 76 locations across 11 States as part of the “Chakra-II” operation launched against the organised cyber-enabled financial crimes. This exercise was carried out in collaboration with … Read more

Poll announcement marks farewell of BJP in five States: Congress

Poll announcement marks farewell of BJP in five States: Congress

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and other leaders during Congress Working Committee(CWC) meeting at AICC Headquarters on October 9, 2023, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap As the dates for the Assembly elections to Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram were announced on Monday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge … Read more

Bihar’s caste survey a brave step forward, Maharashtra and other states should follow suit: NCP MLA

Bihar’s caste survey a brave step forward, Maharashtra and other states should follow suit: NCP MLA

The member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly representing the Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane district made this demand in a video message posted on social media platform X on Monday night. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Jitendra Awhad has hailed the Bihar government’s caste survey and demanded … Read more