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UPSDMA holds training to tackle nuclear chemical disasters at Maha Kumbh
Jointly organised by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of...
EPFO launches centralised pension system, benefitting 6.8 mn members
The Centralized Pension Payments System (CPPS) is a paradigm shift...
7-day home quarantine mandatory for all international arrivals in India, Covid test on 8th: Govt
Contacts of the suspect cases are the co-passengers seated in the same row, three rows in front and three rows behind along with the identified cabin crew, the guidelines said Also, all the community contacts of the travelers who have tested positive (during home...
23.39 pc pay rise for AP govt staff, retirement age up by 2 years
The enhanced retirement age would be applicable from January 1, 2022 The Chief Minister told the employees’ associations that the pending DA instalment arrears would be paid along with the January salary. Also, the pending payments like provident fund, insurance,...
Indian economy to grow 9.2 pc in 2021-22, surpass pre-Covid level: Govt data
The improvement in the economy comes over a GDP contraction of 7.3 per cent during 2020-21 due to the pandemic and resultant lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus New Delhi: The Indian economy is estimated to grow at 9.2 per cent in the 2021-22...
Study finds employee training pays off with fewer layoffs
"Importantly, these findings provide evidence that the same investments that firms make to support the development of employees' human capital in normal times also offer a buffer to employees' job security in the face of financial precarity," the authors wrote...
DPIIT to come out with revised FDI policy to facilitate LIC disinvestment: Secy
The matter is being discussed with the Department of Financial Services and Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) New Delhi: The commerce and industry ministry is making changes in the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy to facilitate...
France fines Google 150 million euro over cookie breaches
In its statement, the watchdog said it had found that the facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com websites didn’t allow the refusal of cookies easily, citing Google’s video-streaming platform France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Thursday it had fined Alphabet’s...
MF disclaimers should flow at same speed as rest of ad: Goyal
Piyush Goyal,Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affairs Union Minister Piyush Goyal said financial products have to pass through the prism of trust, transparency and accountability, and asked stock exchanges to be cognizant of the same to...
Focussed road map, timely govt interventions necessary to achieve net zero target by 2070: ICRA
ICRA Head (Research and Outreach) Rohit Ahuja noted that ambitious targets for COP26 open massive investment opportunities across segments stemming from 500 GW renewables by 2030, higher EV penetration (10 per cent by 2025), and 20 per cent ethanol blending for petrol...
Asian factories take Omicron risks in stride, for now
The rising rate of global infections have raised eyebrows among policymakers, with outbreaks in China forcing some firms to suspend production and threatening to disrupt output for memory chip giants like Samsung Electronics a TOKYO: Asia's factory activity grew in...
Surge in cases indicative of third Covid wave in India: Expert
Noting that in the major metro centres and the surrounding regions, the new variant of the virus is accounting for over 50 per cent of the fresh cases. The galloping increase in the number of Covid cases over the last one week is indicative of the third wave, as is...