The Union government will update the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) starting in January 2027 to better track digital platform and gig workers alongside unpaid household and caregiving labor. Source: thehindu Read More…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said wars were no longer being fought only through conventional means but also by targeting economies, and underscored the need to protect India’s banking system from “cyber terrorists”. Source: newindianexpress Read More…
Madhya Pradesh has approved the Centre’s price deficit payment scheme (PDPS) – Bhavantar – for soybean farmers for the kharif season, 2026. The scheme will seek to ensure that t farmers get the benefit of minimum support price (MSP) for oilseeds without government agencies having to procure the commodities. Source: financialexpress Read More…
NEW DELHI: India and Poland on Thursday agreed to deepen cooperation in defence, space and nuclear energy, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk pledging to expand their strategic partnership amid growing global uncertainty and conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia. Source: newindianexpress Read More…
India has asserted that human rights should not be used as an instrument of political pressure or selective targeting of countries, as it opposed attempts to turn allegations and incomplete statistics into a “negative characterisation” of the world’s largest democracy. Source: newindianexpress Read More…
US President Donald Trump said that India and the US are “pretty close” to reaching a trade deal, which will be much different than the earlier pacts. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said India and the US were pretty close to making a trade deal. “They want to make a…
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Sunday accused the Congress-led Opposition of playing an instrumental role in fomenting unrest in the name of “regime change”. Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju alleged that a “conspiracy” similar to those behind violent incidents in France and Bangladesh had been hatched in India by “anti-India gangs and some…
US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order waiving key sanctions, trade restrictions and tariff provisions under the recently enacted Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, suspending penalties that could have included tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian energy. Source: newindianexpress Read More…
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs held the first meeting of the Working Group on Tribal Languages today in a hybrid workshop mode. The meeting was chaired by Smt. Ranjana Chopra, Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Eminent linguists, academics, researchers and community language practitioners from across the country, including Padmashree Chamu Krishna Shastry, Chairman, Bhasha Samiti,…