India set to begin world's biggest vaccination drive

India is all set to roll out the world's biggest vaccination programme on Saturday with over 3 lakh healthcare workers to be inoculated on the first day of the much-anticipated drive against......

How Tamil Nadu is fighting Covid-19

The state is following surveillance, containment, increasing testing facilities, and ensuring essentials at people's doorstep, among other strategies.  T E Narasimhan reports. CORONAVIRUS......

IMA puts out names of 382 doctors martyred in war against Covid

Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list......

Ex-bureaucrats blame PM for India's 'darkest hour'

A group of retired civil servants also called upon the PM to reach out to the families of the victims in Unnao and Kathua and "seek their forgiveness on behalf of all of us". Not in My Name, says......

EPFO adds 16.26 lakh subscribers in Nov

Retirement fund body EPFO added 16.26 lakh subscribers on a net basis in November 2022, which is 16.5 per cent higher compared to a year ago, the labour ministry said on Friday. Illustration:......

Will 2022 see some daunting labour reforms?

Ushering in a big wave of reforms by implementing the four labour codes, setting up the national social security fund to cover over 38 crore informal sector workers and improving the ease of doing......

Keep ESI, EPF plans out of service tax ambit: Min

The Labour and Employment Ministry has requested the Finance Ministry to keep Employee State Insurance and Employee State Insurance schemes out of the ambit of service tax as they are social......

Govt doubles unemployment benefits under ESIC plan

The government has decided to double the unemployment insurance for retrenched workers in view of the large number of job losses in export-oriented units. However, the decision will benefit only a......