The government on Tuesday introduced in the Lok Sabha a bill aimed at preventing sexual harassment of women at workplace in various forms, including implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in her work through intimidation. The Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010, provides for mandatory setting up an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written...

The government on Tuesday introduced a bill aimed at preventing sexual harassment of women at workplace in various forms, including implied or overt promise of preferential treatment, or threat or interference in her work through intimidation.The Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010, tabled in the Lok Sabha, provides for mandatory setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a...

The Cabinet has decided to write off loans amounting to around Rs.254 crore taken by fishermen from various cooperative institutions in the State, Fisheries Minister S. Sarma told a press conference here on Tuesday. Of this amount, a sum of Rs.221.15 crore is towards the principal of the loan and Rs.20 crore towards interest on the loan disbursed through cooperative societies. A sum of Rs.12.44 crore disbursed as loans through the...

Often called Chanakya for his political astuteness, Engineer-politician Nitish Kumar blended his secularist ideology with pragmatic politics and combined the development plank with innovative social engineeering equations in Bihar to bask in glory yet again. Doing an encore after today's landslide victory, the 59-year-old chief minister with his trademark kurta pyjama and grey stubble has become RJD strongman Lalu Prasad's nemesis single handedly contributing to the electoral meltdown of RJD-led Secular...

Close on the heels of the recent controversy surrounding over the microfinance institutions, Karnataka government has decided to foray into the micro finance business with an initial corpus of Rs 500 crore. With this, Karnataka will join the league of Andhra Pradesh to have its own state-funded microfinance institution. The government plans to lend at the rate of 4 per cent interest per annum to unorganised sector workers. “There are about 3.5...