Factories

US President-elect Trump has pledged to impose big tariffs on imports from three major trading partners Mexico, Canada and China

The labour ministry asked states to make use of the online portal Platform For Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour for complaints

Manufacturers have announced so many new factories that capacity will outstrip demand for the rest of the decade

With an initial production capacity of over 500,000 e-cycles annually, the gigafactory aims to meet the rising demand for alternative modes of transportation

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Although the number of factory workers being injured has declined, fatal injuries have increased in the last five years. In 2017, as many as 18 per cent of injuries led to deaths

The data are a discouraging sign for the global economy, which has seen its bid for recovery threatened by uncertainty over the Israel-Hamas war and the prospect of wider conflict in the region

The government's new project announcements, which typically include roads and other public infrastructure, are down 72.5 per cent year-on-year to Rs 0.4 trillion in September 2023

The Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers index declined to a six-month low of 49.2 in July from 50.5 in June, below the key 50 level that marks a contraction, a private survey showed

Of the 198,628 organised factories surveyed, 98.4% of them employed contract workers in 2019-20, significantly up from around 71% in the previous year

Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana governments had previously allowed factories to employ women on night shifts

Karnataka cannot relax after its bold move on labour law changes and should focus on their careful execution

India should consider a reverse Build Operate Transfer (BOT) model wherein the government finances a project on the EPC basis, and then when it's ready, it auctions it off to the private sector

Number of persons engaged in larger factories was up 13.7 per cent compared to 4.6 per cent in smaller factories

As many as 3,331 deaths were recorded between 2018 and 2020, but only 14 people were imprisoned for offences under the Factories Act, 1948, during the same period, reveals data

Good or bad, India's current policy thrust on PLIs, capital subsidies, etc, is in line with the East Asian trend, if not global, notes T N Ninan

China's Sichuan province has ordered all factories to shut down for six days to ease a power shortage in the region as a scorching heat wave sweeps across the country, media report said

China's manufacturing activity improved in June after anti-virus controls that shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers were eased, a survey showed Thursday

Ola Electric needs 1,000 acres of land to set up its cell gigafactory and electric car factory which is expected to attract an investment of Rs 10,000 crore

Two factories in India are leading the use of emerging technologies for sustainability as part of the WEF Lighthouse network