-Livemint.com The govt will count jobs created in establishments deploying less than 10 people, which essentially means that shops run by one owner and one employee too will be counted as employment generation New Delhi: Expanding the scope of job creation in the country, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has now decided to start counting jobs created in the non-farm informal sector. The government has asked labour bureau under the Union labour...
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Diu becomes first UT to run 100% on solar power -Melvyn Thomas
-The Times of India SURAT: The harnessing of solar energy has made Diu the country’s first energy surplus Union territory and a model for an effective way for people to harness this renewable energy source. In just three years, Diu has made rapid progress in solar power generation. The Union territory has an area of just 42 square kilometres. Despite scarcity of land, solar power plants have been installed over more than...
More »Encounters as state policy? -Jagdeep S Chhokar
-The Tribune When a CM says: “Police encounters won't stop”, it implies that the Police will keep running into suspected criminals unexpectedly. The question is: Will these chance meetings continue to happen, or will they continue to be made to happen? A news item on February 16, 2018, said: "'Police encounters won't stop,' says Yogi Adityanath" . Since it was a PTI story, most newspapers reported it. A dictionary describes an 'encounter' as...
More »The public data office is here
-The Hindu Business Line Promises to do for data what PCOs did for voice calls decades ago Mumbai: Gone are the days when consumers would walk miles to get to a Public Call Office (PCO) booth to make telephone calls. With mobile telephony covering every corner of the country, an affordable conversation is now only a button away, and the PCO box has all but disappeared. Now, with huge demand for internet services,...
More »Indian Labour Conference Postponed After RSS-Affiliated BMS Threatens To Boycott Prime Minister Narendra Modi
-Outlook “BMS decided to boycott ILC due to the centre’s anti-labour policies," RSS trade union President said. The Centre has indefinitely postponed the Indian Labour Conference to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after RSS trade union BMS threatened to boycott it over the Union budget that was “unsympathetic to labour and workers”. At the 47th ILC scheduled to be held on February 26 and 27, trade unions and employers were...
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