The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday won the Churu seat, taking the party's tally to 163 out of 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan. BJP's R S Rathore defeated his nearest rival of Congress and sitting......
Union Labour and Employment Minister Sis Ram Ola died at a Gurgaon hospital on Sunday after prolonged illness. The 86-year-old Congress leader had been suffering from various ailments,......
The BJP's victory in the desert state was so absolute that the Congress failed to open its electoral account in 17 of Rajasthan's 33 districts! P B Chandra reports. The 2013 Rajasthan election has......
The Cabinet reshuffle undertaken by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday was dictated primarily by political considerations with an eye on the year-end assembly elections and the 2014 Lok Sabha......
Finding that the draft Common Minimum Programme was 'inadequate', the central trade unions on Monday said it was not 'acceptable' to them and laid out over a dozen demands to the new government......
The Labour and Employment Ministry remained engaged with wages and unemployment issues during 2013 which also saw a nationwide trade union strike and the death of minister Sis Ram Ola. The death of......
The EPFO is likely to decide soon the rate of interest on PF deposits for 2013-14, which is expected to be over 8.5 per cent."The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's (EPFO) apex decision......
Retirement fund manager EPFO on Friday launched a facility to enable its over 5 crore (50 million) subscribers view updated accounts online on real time basis without waiting for their annual PF......
Taking the first step towards launch of online PF transfer claim facilities, retirement fund body EPFO has unveiled the revised transfer claim form for the purpose. The launch of full fledged......
The United Progressive Alliance is considering the possibility of increasing the rate of interest on Provident Fund to 9.5 per cent.Labour Minister Sis Ram Ola said, "The 8.5 per cent rate of......