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Mandatory appointment letters, fixed work hours, social security benefits among key changes in new labour Codes
The Ministry of Labour & Employment has also taken steps to...
“Insurers could be mandated to meet annual disability coverage targets monitored through digital dashboards”Sr Govt official
“IRDAI's role, along with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare...
Google loses final EU court appeal in $2.7 bn antitrust shopping case
The European Union's Court of Justice upheld a lower court's decision, rejecting the company's appeal against the 2.4 billion Euro ($ 2.7 billion) penalty from the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc's top antitrust enforcer Google lost its final legal challenge...
RBI holds rates, shifts stance to ‘neutral’ signalling rate cuts ahead
Shaktikant Das,Governor,Reserve Bank of India Annual retail inflation remained below the central bank's target of 4% for a second consecutive month, clocking in at 3.65% in August but higher than the revised 3.60% in July and economists' forecast of 3.5% MUMBAI: The...
Cognizant adopted discriminatory practices against non-Indians: US jury
The verdict came after the IT firm failed to persuade a Los Angeles federal judge last month to toss a 2017 job bias class-action lawsuit when a previous trial ended with a deadlocked jury California: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. engaged in a pattern of...
BC Patnaik quits as Member, Life, IRDAI
BC Patnaik, Member, Life, IRDAI Recently, Patnaik, who retired as a managing director of LIC in March 2023, has been selected as the director, National Insurance Academy(NIA) , Pune and is expected to take over his new academic assignment in mid Nov...
Data privacy is a major concern for insurance industry: LIC CEO
(LtoR) Siddhartha Mohanty, CEO and MD, Life Insurance Corporation and Satyajit Tripathi, Member (Distribution), IRDAI at an event organised by Pune based National Insurance Academy in Mumbai IRDAI’s methods for monitoring companies and intermediaries have...
Investors lose Rs10 lakh crore amid Middle East conflict, Sensex plunges 1800 points
According to market experts, the domestic market took a sharp downturn following Iran’s launch of ballistic missiles at Israel, sparking fears of retaliation and escalation into war. This could potentially drive up oil prices and lead to inflationary pressures, they...
Israel-Iran conflict: India Inc braces for wider sea trade disruption
As per a recent Crisil Ratings report, Indian companies use the Red Sea route through the Suez Canal to trade with Europe, North America, north Africa, and part of the Middle East. The country’s overall merchandise trade (exports and imports combined) in FY23 was Rs...
Sebi decides to introduce new asset class; ‘MF Lite’ framework for passive funds
Madhabi Puri Buch,chairperson, Sebi The board cleared 17 proposals, including an amendment to insider trading rules to clarify the definitions of ‘connected person’ and ‘immediate relative’ and relaxed eligibility criteria and compliance requirements for investment...
EU privacy regulator fines Meta €91M over password storage in GDPR violation
The inquiry was opened five years ago after Meta notified Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) that it had stored some passwords in “plaintext.” Meta publicly acknowledged the incident at the time and the DPC said the passwords were not made available to...
California sues Exxon over global plastic pollution
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the state sued Exxon after concluding a nearly two-year investigation that he said showed Exxon was deliberately misleading the public about the limitations of recycling. The investigation mirrors California’s previous probes...