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EPFO ultimatum for 295 exempt PF trusts, says no more ad-hoc exemptions in future

Proposals for exemption to reach EPFO by Nov 15

SCs & STs lose out on NREGA

Number of beneficiaries in these categories has been registering fall across nation in past two years

Little to cheer about

Soaring prices of onions bring no hope to farmers whose crops have been damaged or hit by imports

NPS is designed to offer pension to every worker: Yogesh Agarwal

Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority chairman

RBI wants PF money in rate swaps

Central bank keen to develop domestic interest rate derivatives market

Forced charity

Mines Bill and labour laws, not mandatory CSR, will be the real test of giving by companies

Are you game for some community good?

New Companies Bill has mandated financial thresholds for companies to take up compulsory CSR

The blissful fighter

Aam Aadmi Party activist Santosh Koli, who died recently, could not be driven out of an issue she has seized

My pension is better than yours, FM tells labour ministry

Employees' Pension Scheme asked to fold up and hand over subscribers to National Pension System

EPFO gives a week for sending digital signatures

This, to put in place a system of online transfer of provident fund claim settlements

Sheltering migrants

Six states have signed MoUs to protect migrant labourers from exploitation and to ensure their rights

Planning Commission proposes labour laws overhaul

Proposes a liberal hire and fire policy in manufacturing sector, besides third party auditing in place of labour inspections to monitor occupational safety and health administration

Cabinet decision to increase retirement age deferred

The government may make the anouncement in the Prime Minister's 15 August address

CCI clears Delhi Aerocity, MIAL projects

The solution offered by CCI to the security woes would require hotels to erect glass walls around their buildings

The right of the farmer

A UN working group has prepared the first draft of a declaration on farmer rights

There need not be one poverty line: Yoginder Alagh

Interview with Former minister

Father of poverty line takes estimates with a pinch of salt

Yogender Alagh who headed first ever task force on poverty line in 1978 is dismissive of present methodology devised by Suresh Tendulkar

Half of rural India below poverty line

The BPL census is scheduled to be completed in the next three to four months

CWC's game of death

The Central Water Commission had no means to forecast floods in Uttarakhand, leaving it exposed

Mid-day meal monitoring is almost defunct: N C Saxena

Interview with Food Commissioner appointed by the SC in the Right to Food case