ILC for laws to ensure right to work, pension

Sunday 19 May '13

The Indian Labour Conference, the apex forum comprising the government, employees and employers, on Saturday recommended to the government to enact laws to ensure "right to work" and "right to pension...

Cong talks options to push food Bill, takes no decision

Saturday 18 May '13

A day after Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP and other opposition parties of creating roadblocks in passage of the Food Security Bill in Parliament, the Congress top leadership on Friday deliberated on th...

Thomas not keen on ordinance route to push through Food Bill

Friday 17 May '13

Amid talk of the government taking the ordinance route to implement its ambitious National Food Security Bill, Food Minister K V Thomas Thursday met Law Minister Kapil Sibal and discussed available op...

Sense of poverty

Wednesday 15 May '13

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen may have given the UPA a shot in the arm by slamming the opposition for disrupting Parliament and blocking passage

Cabinet to take up policy for domestic workers

Wednesday 15 May '13

In the pipeline for long, the Union Cabinet will this week take up for approval the first-ever national policy for domestic workers

Rudy seeks direct election of PM, moves Bill to keep MPs out of ministries

Monday 13 May '13

Rudy has argued that the Westminster parliamentary form of democracy adopted by India

CPM politburo sacks aides, spares V S Achuthanandan

Monday 13 May '13

Politburo endorses Kerala unit's controversial decision to expel three of VS' close confidants.

Kerala headache returns for CPM

Sunday 12 May '13

The organisational mess in its Kerala unit due to the never-ending V S Achuthanandan-Pinarayi Vijayan factional feud has returned to haunt the CPM central leadership at a time when the party is gearin...

Should we have let him go, wonder BJP leaders

Thursday 9 May '13

B S Yeddyurappa''s role in the BJP''s defeat has left many of its top leaders ruing the fact that it could not prevent his exit

Do-nothing UPA

Thursday 9 May '13

The Sangh Parivar journal continue to target the Union government over Sarabjit Singh''s death and the Chinese incursion in eastern Ladakh

Health Allocation

Wednesday 8 May '13

An article in the CPM weekly People''s Democracy questions the UPA government''s performance in the health sector. It says that while the government

Sonia chalked out the Bill strategy

Tuesday 7 May '13

While the government was more or less resigned to the fact that the rest of the Budget session was set for a washout, it was Congress president Sonia Gandhi

Meet to discuss exemption of SMEs from labour laws

Monday 6 May '13

The upcoming Indian Labour Conference on May 17, 18 will discuss a proposal by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

BJP, Chair duel in RS but money Bill sails

Friday 3 May '13

In the end though, the Finance Bill was passed.

Chinese incursion

Thursday 2 May '13

The Chinese incursion in eastern Ladakh has prompted the Sangh Parivar to peddle the encircled India theory. RSS journals Organiser

Coal scandal

Wednesday 1 May '13

Arguing that the government must come clean on how it influenced the CBI in its investigation into the coal block allocation scam

Post-Saradha, I&B seeks equity details of all TV channels

Monday 29 April '13

According to official data, there are about 825 private satellite television channels in India

Oppn unites to corner Centre

Wednesday 24 April '13

The Opposition members in the JPC on 2G spectrum scam on Tuesday met to discuss their strategy at the panel''s meeting on Thursday to adopt the controversial draft

Mock fight

Wednesday 24 April '13

An editorial in the CPI weekly New Age discusses what it termed a "mock fight" between allies BJP and JD(U), and criticises Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

Left to get other parties on board to oppose report

Saturday 20 April '13

A day after the contents of the draft JPC report on 2G spectrum allocation became known, the Left parties Friday made it clear that the report was unacceptable and began preliminary talks with other p...

EPFO to go online soon for withdrawals, transfers

Thursday 18 April '13

Employees'' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) subscribers will soon be able to apply for withdrawal and transfer of funds online

Fast forward

Wednesday 17 April '13

Amidst the debate over Rahul Gandhi vs Narendra Modi, the Left is leaving no stone unturned to take digs at both the Congress and the BJP

Govt sets up one-stop shop to clear film shoots in India

Tuesday 16 April '13

In a bid to promote India as a global filming locale, the I&B Ministry Monday set up a single-window mechanism to enable international filmmakers

Cabinet set to discuss sugar de-control today

Tuesday 2 April '13

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Tuesday will consider the Food Ministry''s proposal to unshackle the sugar sector from government control, a move billed as a major reform

Cong Muslim leaders pitch for more tickets this time

Monday 1 April '13

Amid intense lobbying in the Congress for tickets for the upcoming Assembly election in Karnataka, the party''s prominent Muslim faces