Women's employment rate nearly doubled to 40.3 pc in last seven yearsIndia has seen a big jump in women joining the workforce. The number of employed women almost doubled between 2017 and 2024. Unemployment a...
25 Aug, 2025, 07.46 PM IST
Major EPFO update: New FAT rule delays payroll, UAN generation; are you impacted?EPFO mandates that, starting August 1, 2025, all allotment and activation of UANs should be done through the UMANG app using face authentic...
11 Aug, 2025, 03.33 PM IST
ISF flag issues with new registration of workers under mandatory facial authentication technologyThe Indian Staffing Federation (ISF) has urged the EPFO to reinstate the employer's ability to generate UANs for new hires, aiming to strea...
09 Aug, 2025, 05.49 PM IST
Essential Skills Act: The must-have for Viksit Bharat in Budget 2025Union Budget: The article highlights India's skilling initiatives like PMKVY, revealing that a majority of trainees are still not placed. I...
29 Jan, 2025, 11.29 AM IST
Labour secretary Sumita Dawra reviews functioning of attached offices of ministry of labour and employmentTaking a comprehensive review on the functioning of offices of Chief Labour Commissioner (Central), Employees’ Provident Fund Organization ...
26 Nov, 2024, 08.14 PM IST
Get over LTCG tax shock! 9 booster dosages in Budget 2024 that will reward equity investors handsomely in the long runEquity sectors to bet: The Budget 2024 has rationalised the capital gains regime taxation. The benefit of indexation has been partially tak...
09 Aug, 2024, 02.37 PM IST
PM Modi to address Industry leaders post-union budget on TuesdayPrime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the inaugural session of 'Journey Towards Viksit Bharat' conference post the Union Budget 2024-25. T...
29 Jul, 2024, 02.18 PM IST
Union Budget 2024-25: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposes 12 industrial parks under National Industrial Corridor ProgramBudget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the sanctioning of 12 industrial parks under the National Industrial Corridor pr...
23 Jul, 2024, 04.01 PM IST
Budget 2024: FM Sitharaman lays out Modi 3.0's nine priorities for Viksit BharatUnion Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2024-25 on Tuesday, highlighting the government's nine pr...
23 Jul, 2024, 03.56 PM IST
Centre appoints 22 joint secretaries in different departmentsSenior bureaucrat Deepankar Aron has been named joint secretary, department of chemicals and petrochemicals, Harish Kumar Vashisth will be ...
15 Mar, 2024, 06.31 PM IST
NBFC borrowing costs likely to fall with HDFC out of bond marketNearly a tenth of borrowing in the bond market could reduce, as HDFC accounted for that much bonds sold in the country. The merged entity w...
06 Apr, 2022, 06.08 AM IST
Rs 1,000 minimum monthly pension for EPFO members inadequate, says Par panelThe panel said it becomes imperative on the part of the Ministry of Labour and Employment to pursue the matter with the Ministry of Finance...
15 Mar, 2022, 07.12 PM IST
FM Sitharaman speech today Highlights: Fifth and final tranche moves to further easing of curbs in doing businessThe final tranche had more for states as their borrowing limit has been increased from 3% to 5% of GSDP.
18 May, 2020, 02.11 PM IST
View: The diminishing importance of cheap labour makes five reforms India’s need of the hourThe need is for bold and quick action, because this status quo is not only unsustainable but also wrong.
21 Feb, 2020, 04.31 PM IST
Arvind Subramanian: India's economic policy over the past four years has been a crucible for many policy experimentsThe Economic Survey’s aim is always to build a portfolio of contributions, combining description, new data creation, deep-dive research, an...
29 Jan, 2018, 08.28 PM IST
Time for consolidation of reforms initiated in 42 months: Niti AayogNiti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said that the government should consolidate the reforms initiated so far and focus on health and educa...
26 Nov, 2017, 03.46 PM IST
The big bang has come: Modi govt has ushered in Reforms 3.0, which will lead to the creation of a new IndiaIn last 3 years, NDA govt has unleashed Reforms 3.0, which follow Reforms 1.0 (in 1991 by Narasimha Rao's govt), Reforms 2.0 (the reforms f...
30 Jun, 2017, 11.07 AM IST