Government has reacted after media reports said that the Government may be bringing an amendment to the Payment of Wages Act to make mandatory the payment of wages to the workers only through cheque or accounts transfers. This is not the correct position. On Wages Act, Government has issued a note stating: It is clarified […]
Hindu migrant citizenship issue is again creating headlines after Krishak Mukti SangramSamiti (KMSS) president Akhil Gogoi on Monday said that this was a huge conspiracy. Gogoi urged every stakeholder in Assam to join hands to protect the identity of the state. He promised that in the next three months he will thwart any attempts to give […]
Haj Pilgrimage will become easier! Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the Minister of State(I/C), Ministry of Minority Affairs, launched the trilingual website www.haj.gov.in relating to Haj Matters here today. The website is in Hindi, Urdu and English languages. The Secretary(MA), Joint Secretary (Haj and Wakf), senior officers of the ministry, Haj Committee of India and NIC were […]
Near the River Yamuna at Okhla, a small community of Rohingya Muslims live. These people, have escaped from Myanmar with almost nothing to call as ‘belongings.’ But now, for this bunch, India is where their heart and home is. Rohingya Muslims are in a feud with the Myanmarese establishment and are considered a persecuted community. However, […]
The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee yesterday (December 17, 2016) received Emomali Rahmon, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan at Rashtrapati Bhavan. He also hosted a banquet in his honour. Welcoming the President of Tajikistan to India, the President Pranab Mukherjee said his visit to India is on the eve of the 25th anniversary of […]
Omar Abdullah on Sunday said the State Government’s weak legal defence of various sensitive attributes of the State’s Special Status was alarming. In a statement issued from the party headquarters in Srinagar, Omar Abdullah said the deliberate callousness shown by the State Government indicated the tacit connivance of PDP in allowing the step-by-step erosion of […]
North East development has taken a unique turn with the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh having announced incentives for startup entrepreneurship in Northeast on December 16, 2016. The move is expected to encourage avenues […]
Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC is on an official visit to Japan commencing 19 December 2016. The visit aims to consolidate existing Maritime Cooperation initiatives as well as explore new avenues. Defence cooperation between India and Japan is robust and is primarily focused towards Maritime Cooperation. Our defence cooperation […]
Government of India has taken the note of newspaper reports that suggested that it is soft on the black money hoarding done by the political parties. In a press statement, the government has categorically denied it. The statement by the Government of India states: There have been some newspaper reports which seem to wrongly suggest that […]
