The Rajya Sabha on Friday passed the Code on Wages Bill, 2019 which subsumes some British-era labour laws into one code and enables the Centre to fix minimum wages that would benefit almost 500 million workers. ...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be meeting the PSU bank heads and major private sector banks on August 5 to review credit growth in various sectors like MSMEs, retail, auto, NBFCs and HFCs which will provide key indications for the steps needed to accelerate GDP growth....
The US on Friday formally withdrew from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia, it was confirmed by American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. ...
Sri Lankan authorities have failed to bring to justice those responsible for the execution-style killing of 17 aid workers 13 years ago, Human Right Watch said on Friday. ...
Flag hoisting celebrations in over 2,000 village panchayats in the Valley on the approaching Independence Day would be the touchstone for announcement of the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP leadership intends to cover each and every village with a flag hoisting event in India's troubled state on the eve of nati...
Resident doctors at various government hospitals in Delhi continued their strike for a second day on Friday, shutting down OPD and emergency services in protest against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill....
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "it is up to Prime Minister Modi" to accept his offer to intervene in the Kashmir issue -- without referring to his earlier claim that Modi had requested him to "mediate" in the matter -- something India has outright denied....
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered day-to-day hearing on the Ayodhya dispute from August 6 as a committee appointed to mediate the vexed issue failed to reach any conclusion.6...
All Maharashtra Opposition parties on Friday unanimously demanded a ban on the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and a return to the ballot paper voting for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. Addressing a joint press conference here top leaders of the Congress, the ...
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of the Unnao rape victim's uncle from a jail in Rai Bareli in Uttar Pardesh to Tihar Jail in Delhi. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi made the order after the Uttar Pradesh government raised no objection on a plea seeking his transfer to the ...
