World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab has lauded the early policy response initiated by the Modi government in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent interview, the WEF founder hailed the early lockdown decision taken by the government, along with steps taken to ensure the distribution of large-scale food rations and collateral-free ...

COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the crisis of child labour in India, with several underprivileged families forced to push their children into menial jobs to meet ends. India has the largest child population in the world with 472 million children living across all parts of the nation. With the COVID-19 outbreak starting to spread across India ...

With the last phase (Unlock 4) of post-pandemic reopening of the economy coming to an end on September 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the chief ministers of seven states that are worst affected by COVID-19. On Wednesday, chief ministers of Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Punjab ...

In a major development, the Centre has told a Parliamentary standing committee that working hours of employees cannot be increased beyond eight hours in a day without compensating the employees for the overtime. This decision has come in view of the efforts made by several states to bring changes in labour laws in the country ...

In view of the rising Coronavirus infections across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 16 held the first round of two-day video conference with chief ministers of the states. Reportedly, PM Modi’s meeting with the chief minister will take place on June 16 and June 17, for which the states and Union Territories have ...

Aiming to protect the rights of migrant workers, Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi Adityanath government recently decided to set up a Migration Commission to ensure the employment of migrant laborers in the state. India’s lockdown imposed to tackle the spread of Coronavirus pandemic has left lakhs of migrant workers across the country in peril. The pandemic lockdown, ...

Lockdown 3.0 is boozing the nation with re-open of liquor shops and the liquor sales hitting to different level with high numbers becoming a boost to Indian economy which cannot bee denied at all. Most of the states re-opened liquor shops and the collection reports regarding the sales of the liquor was a stunner. Karnataka ...

The Reserve Bank Of India’s (RBI) liquidity offer has given some level of solace the debt market, which is feeling tremendous recovery pressure, particularly in credit risk investments. On Monday, the RBI announced a Rs 50,000 crores Special Liquidity Facility Scheme. Since the lockdown announcement from the end of March, mutual fund investors bared a ...

India’s 1.3 billion population is under 21-day national lockdown since March 24 imposed by the government to contain the novel COVID-19 virus. With state government and experts have been urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi on extending the curfew which ends on April 14, India certainly cannot afford to lift its lockdown at present. Even after ...