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Agra leather industry facing hard times post demonetization
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec.17 (ANI): The leather industry in city has been hit hard by the government's sudden withdrawal of high-value currency with labourers not getting their wages and manufacturers having no money to buy raw material.
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Collected black money must be deposited in accounts of poor: Mayawati
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 15 (ANI): Attacking the government over its note ban implementation, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday said that even after 37 days of demonetisation, the people who are suffering the most are the poor, labourers and farmers".
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President Mukherjee to host 'Laureates and Leaders' summit for c
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.9 (ANI): The Rashtrapati Bhavan will host a 'Laureates and Leaders' Summit for Children from December 10 to 11.
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Child labour, trafficking- key concerns of 'Vulnerable Children'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 1 (ANI): A consolidated report on the situation of vulnerable and excluded children from India, comprising 28 states and four union territories, was recently presented at the National Conference on 'Plan For Every Child' for Children in Difficult Circumstanc
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Demonetisation: PM Modi bats for cashless society
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 27 (ANI): In a 37-minute long 'Mann ki Baat' address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the nation to move towards a cashless society, and said he took the decision to scrap Rs. 500 and 1,000 currency notes for the sake of the country's poor,
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Deploy more mobile ATMs in areas with larger workforce, says Bandaru Datta
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 18 (ANI): The Union Labour Ministry has requested the Finance Ministry for deploying more mobile automated teller machines (ATMs) in areas like construction sites and others where there is workforce in large numbers, Minister of State (I/C) for Labour and Employment, M
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Assam farmers don't have money to buy seeds or employ labour after de
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam), Nov. 16 (ANI): Demonetisation of high denomination currency notes has badly hit agricultural activities across Assam, as cash-starved farmers are finding it hard to pay agricultural labourers, demanding wages in advance, that too in Rs 100 denomination.
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Demonetisation has affected poor, daily-wage labourers the most: Capt Amar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Abohar (Punjab) [India], Nov. 13 (ANI): Launching a scathing attack at the Centre, Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday alleged that this radical decision of demonetisation has hit crores of daily-wage labourers and poor, who do not have bank accounts, the hardest.
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Two in five candidates joining workforce this year are employable, women c
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 9 (ANI-NewsVoir): The last year under the Modi Government has seen lot of initiatives in the space of skilling, job creation and most importantly in terms to linking skilling to jobs and taking steps to bridge the gap between talent supply and demand. While it is too e
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PeopleStrong, Wheebox and CII launch India Skills Report 2017
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.9 (ANI): India Skills Report 2017 - a joint initiative by PeopleStrong, a leading HR solutions and HR Technology company from India, and Wheebox, a Global Talent Assessment Company, in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was launched by Hon'
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Cabinet approves new PLR scheme for major port trusts, dock labour board e
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, Oct. 27 (ANI): The Union Cabinet under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval to new Productivity Linked Reward (PLR) scheme for all major port trusts and dock labour board employees/workers for the years 2015-16 to 2017-18.
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Emaar India organizes free health camps for its site workers
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.25 (ANI): India's leading real estate developer Emaar India is conducting a fortnight-long free health checkup and screening program for construction labourers and staff employed at it project sites in Gurgaon and Mohali.
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