Railway pensioners get DR hike: What will be monthly increase in their pension after dearness relief increases?Railway pensioners and family pensioners will receive a Dearness Relief hike. Their relief will increase from 58% to 60% of their basic pen...
12 May, 2026, 09.29 AM IST
West Bengal’s Delhi wall may disappear: What schemes could BJP rule in Kolkata unlock?West Bengal's long-standing political clashes with the central government over welfare schemes are set to change. With the BJP now in power...
09 May, 2026, 10.57 AM IST
Assam Exit Poll Results 2026: Can Himanta Biswa Sarma lead BJP to another win?Assam Exit Poll Results 2026: Exit polls predict a second consecutive term for Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the BJP-led NDA in As...
29 Apr, 2026, 11.05 PM IST
'Barkat da' still looms large: Congress banks on Ghani Khan Choudhury’s legacy in West Bengal's Malda battleCongress seeks to revive its fortunes in Malda for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections. The party is leveraging the enduring legacy of ...
21 Apr, 2026, 05.39 PM IST
Housing dreams falter in West Bengal amid corruption, land crunchEligible families in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, are denied housing benefits. Decades of occupancy on railway land disqualify them from...
17 Apr, 2026, 05.53 PM IST
RailTel Corporation shares jump 4% after securing Rs 23.18 crore orderRailTel Corporation of India's shares surged after securing a Rs 23.18 crore work order from the Goa Building and Other Construction Worker...
10 Apr, 2026, 11.24 AM IST
Railway track workers flag leadership feud in union, say it threatens advocacy for over 2 lakh workersInfighting within the All India Railway Trackmaintainers Union threatens to undermine its advocacy for track workers' welfare. Factions are...
30 Jul, 2025, 02.46 PM IST
Delhi elections: Amit Shah promises 50k govt jobs, Yamuna Riverfront in 3 yearsAmit Shah released the BJP's third manifesto part, promising 50,000 government jobs, 20 lakh self-employment opportunities, and ownership r...
25 Jan, 2025, 10.49 PM IST
Railway unions threaten to stop all trains from May 1 if old pension scheme not implementedRailway unions, under the Joint Forum For Restoration of Old Pension Scheme (JFROPS), have threatened to disrupt train services across Indi...
29 Feb, 2024, 08.26 PM IST
Joe Biden signs a bill into law avoiding rail workers' strike during the holiday seasonUS President Biden decided to impose a labour agreement for railway workers to prevent disruption of rail services during the holiday seaso...
03 Dec, 2022, 01.45 AM IST
Labour ministry reactivates 21 monitoring centres to mitigate migrant workers' problemsYadav was addressing a virtual interaction with the leaders of the unorganized workers’ unions and associations. The aim of the interaction...
19 Jan, 2022, 08.03 PM IST
Migrants hoping to leave Delhi turning up at night shelters for food, restThe Delhi government on Tuesday announced various measures, including provisions of food, shelter and medicines for the migrant workers, ma...
21 Apr, 2021, 10.25 PM IST
Govt planning new labour legislation by merging 44 laws under 4 categoriesThe Modi government is planning a new labour legislation that would merge 44 labour laws under four categories
12 Jun, 2019, 06.11 AM IST
Indian Railways to create database of contract workers, give benefits like organised sectorThe new policy has introduced, for the first time, a digital contract labour management system which will be a database of all contractual ...
04 Feb, 2018, 12.33 PM IST
Railways sends employees for first foreign pleasure tripIn a first for the national transporter, 100 non-gazetted workers of South Central Railway flew to Singapore and Malaysia for a six-day vac...
30 Jan, 2018, 01.54 PM IST
Legislation to safeguard unorganised sector workers to be placed in Parliament: Santosh Kumar GangwarGangwar, who is the union minister of state for labour and employment, said that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre is trying to ma...
10 Jan, 2018, 05.51 PM IST
- Health insurance for poor set to cover beedi, non-coal mine workers
The govt's health insurance scheme for the poor may be extended to workers of non-coal mines and beedi factories, benefiting over 50 lakh p...
24 Feb, 2011, 03.49 AM IST