-Business Standard Alleges while govt's providing incentives to corporate houses, cos are cutting jobs for more profit Chennai: The New Democratic Labour Front (NDLF) IT Employees Wing, a trade union, is planning to conduct a protest march next week against what it calls an unjustified dismissal of employees by IT firms. It is looking to represent around 20 employees who have been dismissed from various IT firms with the Tamil Nadu labour...
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Muslim Personal Laws Most Progressive of All Communities: Legal Luminaries at Kolkata Seminar
-CaravanDaily.com Advocate Flavia Agnes, who has written extensively on women’s issues said that the court ban on triple talaq will prove ineffective as Muslim men may then start deserting their wives. She also accused the media of ignorance over the subject and suggested that they were playing into the hands of vested interests by only highlighting certain kind of reports related to Muslim women. Kolkata: “Among all personal laws, I regard Muslim...
More »From being world leader in surveys, India is now facing a serious data problem -Abhijit V Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Rohini Somanathan & TN Srinivasan
-The Economic Times blog In December 1956, Zhou En Lai, the Chinese premier and, after Mao, the second mostpowerful man in China, created much consternation by refusing to leave his meeting at the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) office at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata. He was talking to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the founder of the institute, and one of the pioneers in the field of survey methods. Zhou was...
More »1.37 crore who don't file returns are now on Income Tax radar -Aanchal Magazine & Anil Sasi
-The Indian Express The department is employing what it calls a “360 degree profiling” of taxpayers ARMED WITH information on cash deposits of over Rs 2 lakh by tax assessees through a newly inserted column in the income-tax returns for 2017-18, the tax department has started the process of scrutinising and matching details with those provided earlier by banks and financial institutions. Alongside this, a list has been readied of about 1.37 crore...
More »Select vegetables' prices crash on farmers' rush for sale -Dilip Kumar Jha
-Business Standard Huge arrivals from Gujarat and MP increase supply; farmers fear higher spoilage on rise in temp Mumbai: Vegetables prices crashed in the last two weeks due to farmers’ rush for sale on fears of high spoilage due to sudden rise in temperature across the country. Data compiled by the government owned National Horticulture Board (NHB) showed cauliflower in the wholesale Mumbai mandi slumped by a staggering 25% since March 17 to...
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