-Hindustan Times The decision has been taken in view of the prevailing Covid-19 situation. A Notification was issued by additional chief secretary Dr Devesh Kumar Chaturvedi on Sunday, Livehindustan reported. The Yogi Adityanath government has banned strikes across the states for six months. A Notification was issued by additional chief secretary Dr Devesh Kumar Chaturvedi on Sunday, Hindustan Times’ sister publication Livehindustan reported. It states that the strike is being banned in any...

-MoneyControl.com India has suspended futures trading in seven commodities with immediate effect in its latest move to rein in soaring inflation. The Finance Ministry has suspended trading in futures contracts of some agricultural commodities for one year to reign in inflation. Trading in seven commodities - paddy (non-basmati), wheat, chana, mustard seeds and its derivatives, soya bean and its derivatives, crude palm oil and moong - has been suspended with immediate effect, according...

-TheWire.in The apex court had insisted that an RT-PCR test report and death certificate showing that the death has occurred within 30 days are the only requirements to receive compensation. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has lashed out at the Gujarat government for constituting a “scrutiny” committee for the disbursal of ex-gratia compensation for COVID-19 deaths, overreaching the court’s direction, therefore making the process “cumbersome”. According to LiveLaw, the state government had issued...

-Rediff.com Militant labour policies compounded a poor security environment for capital in West Bengal and encouraged the business community to relocate. constraining the private sector’s right to hire freely could well be the coup de grace. As with Calcutta/Kolkata, it will probably take a decade for Gurgaon/Gurugram to feel the difference, says Kanika Datta Gurgaon, the city that accounted for a significant amount of Haryana’s GDP long before it became Gurugram, is...

-The Telegraph The Centre’s efforts to introduce reformist laws to reinvigorate the business ecosystem can often be stymied by the states through regressive legislation Labour reform in India has always been a prickly subject and any attempt to amend legislation sparks outrage and resentment among one or the other group of stakeholders in the economy. When the Narendra Modi government crunched 29 Central laws into four labour codes last year, India Inc...