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Participation of Indian women in employment rises to 25% in 2024 from 22% in 2019
The findings of the 2024 survey revealed that 75 per cent of the...
Adhere to timeline for rolling out revised pilot duty norms, Delhi HC tells DGCA
The court was hearing pleas filed by Indian Commercial Pilots...
Key to healthier employees might be quieter or louder office space: Study
"Everybody knows that loud noise is stressful, and, in fact, extremely loud noise is harmful to your ear," said study co-author Esther Sternberg, director of the UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, adding, "But what was new about this is that...
Budget-2023-24:No tax on income up to Rs 7 lakh, standard deduction allowed under new tax regime
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sitharaman also allowed a Rs 50,000 standard deduction to taxpayers under the new regime, where assessees cannot claim deductions or exemptions on their investments She also tweaked the concessional tax regime, which was...
Not US, UK Or China. the French are world’s worst workaholics: Survey
Nearly four in ten French business leaders admit to working intense, long hours without regular breaks, well above the 25% global average and besting rates in the US, UK and China, the survey from health insurer Bupa Global found. Americans have popularized “hustle...
Study: Slower memory decline in older adults linked to healthy lifestyle
Memory continuously declines as people age, but evidence from existing studies is insufficient to assess the effect of a healthy lifestyle on memory in later life. A healthy lifestyle, in particular a healthy diet, is associated with slower memory decline, finds a...
Good things happen when leaders reflect on their mistakes: Research
Researchers discovered that when leaders took the time to reflect on what they learnt from their mistakes, they displayed more humility, a quality believed to make managers more effective. "The goal should be to learn from mistakes, not just focus on what went wrong,"...
Research suggests woman’s risk of pregnancy loss linked to certain job hazards
Manufacturing jobs and health/social work were associated with higher risks of early abortive outcomes compared with financial and insurance jobs. In an analysis of 2010-2019 information on more than 1.8 million employed and non-employed pregnant women in South Korea,...
Budget wishlist: Infra development, social security for gig workers
India aims to be a $30 trillion inclusive and sustainable economy by India@100, which will help create resources for the government to fund development programmes and social security. New Delhi: In recent years, structural reforms initiated by the Government have laid...
EPFO adds 16.26 lakh net subscribers in November, 2022
Among the new members, the highest enrolment is registered in the age-group of 18-21 years with 2.77 lakh members, followed by age-group of 22-25 years with 2.32 lakh members. The age group of 18-25 years constitutes 56.60 per cent of the total of new members during...
Contract personnel deleted software files: US on mega aviation outage
The US Federal Aviation Administration has so far found no evidence of a cyber-attack or malicious intent. The FAA continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding the outage. A glitch in the FAA software, which grounded thousands of flights in the country...
Sacked GM workers in India sue company,CEO Barra for unpaid compensation
In a filing to the High Court of Bombay dated Jan 16, the General Motors Employees Union of 1,086 factory workers states the company has failed to pay them compensatory wages of 50% of their monthly salary starting April last year, as ordered by a local industrial...