In a bonanza to officers of Central Public Sector Undertakings, the government today announced a hefty 50 to 300 per cent increase in pay-packages with effect from January 1, 2007.
Jnanpith award winning Kashmiri poet Rahman Rahi says contemporary poets of
the valley have tried to bring out the suffering of people through their
poetry.
A
school teacher who lost his job for sleeping in the staff room after classes
will now get back his job with the Supreme Court holding that his termination
was illegal.
Giving
a thumbs-up to Prime Minister Gordon Brown for his handling of the financial
crisis, leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul today told British corporates
that they could beat the downturn by cutting costs and making themselves
"lean and mean".
To bring into effect social security pacts signed by India with countries like France, Germany
and Belgium,
the government has initiated registration for "International workers"
after amending the Employees Provident Fund Act.
India is unlikely to see any large-scale job
cuts as it has a strong domestic market to consume what it produces, Cabinet
Secretary K M Chandrasekhar said.
Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh today led the nation in paying homage to former Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi on her 91st birth anniversary.
