New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a webinar on smart agriculture on Thursday. According to an official statement issued on Wednesday, an important webinar on smart agriculture is being held on February 24, which will be mainly addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Food and [...]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) An employer is under an obligation to pay the damages for delay in payment of the contribution of Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) of an employee, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Abhay S Oka said Employees Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act is legislation [...]
Kolkata, Feb 23 (PTI) Industrialists in West Bengal Wednesday suggested greater publicity of the state highlighting it's leadership and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee assured that the state government will work with them to explore ways to do it before domestic and international investors. The state government launched the new intregated portal for ease of business [...]
Mumbai, Feb 23 (PTI) India's GDP will be just one per cent above the pre-pandemic level even after the estimated 9.2 per cent growth in FY22, and this factor coupled with comfort on inflation make the RBI to continue with the accommodative monetary policy, RBI Deputy Governor M D Patra said on Wednesday. Making it [...]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday held a meeting to discuss the status of compliance of coal and lignite companies with environmental norms. Joshi, who chaired the meeting of Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the coal ministry, informed the panel members that mining operations in coal, lignite mines are carried out [...]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) The newly-constructed arrival terminal at T1 of the airport in the national capital will be operational from Thursday. The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), operated by DIAL, has three terminals -- T1, T2 and T3. The state-of-the-art arrival facility is set to receive passengers from IndiGo's flight from Goa, 6E-6532. [...]
Representatives of the bidi industry and labour organisations have called for an immediate reduction of tax on the indigenous smoke, contending that high taxes threatened the survival of the sector. During a virtual round table organised by the All India Bidi Industry Federation, they also deliberated upon the need for alternative job opportunities for the [...]
Global oil and liquified natural gas (LNG) prices are likely to see a sharp rise in the event of a Russia-Ukraine conflict, which would have negative implications for net energy importers, Moody's Investors Service said on Wednesday. Moody's Investors Service Managing Director Michael Taylor said trade effects are likely to arise from import diversion and [...]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) The government is coming up with a regulation that will make organisations hit by any cybercrime incidence to disclose it before the government, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Wednesday. While speaking at the launch of the IBM Security Command Centre for Asia Pacific region [...]
London, Feb 23 (The Conversation) The economic consequences of armed conflicts have received widespread attention at least as far back as when John Meynard Keynes wrote about them in 1919 in relation to the first world war. Yet as the world braces for a possible war in Ukraine, we still know relatively little about the [...]
