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The Centre has completed the implementation of the four new labour codes by notifying the corresponding rules, more than five years after the reforms were first introduced to replace and consolidate 29 existing labour laws, PTI reported.The four codes — the Code on Wages, 2019; Industrial Relations Code, 2020; Code on Social Security, 2020; and…
NEW DELHI: Amidst a debate over working hours, the Centre has capped the weekly working hours at 48 under the new labour codes, beyond which workers will be paid double the amount of their defined hourly wages.Nearly four months after the draft rules under the four new codes were published for stakeholder consultation, the Centre…
New gratuity rules: Over time, this may translate into a higher payout at the time of exit. (AI image) Gratuity has long been seen as a quiet but meaningful reward for years of service. It is not something employees think about every month, but at the time of leaving a job, it often becomes one…
Garena Free Fire MAX is the improved version of the popular battle royale game Free Fire, offering superior graphics and animations, among other enhancements. In this game, 50 players are dropped on a remote island, where they fight each other until only one survives. The players must find weapons and ammunition, gather resources, and eliminate…
BENGALURU: With many employees seeing a moderate dip in net take-home salaries in their latest payslips, companies are issuing explainers to help them understand the impact of the new labour codes.The reduction is largely due to changes in salary composition. Employee provident fund (PF) contributions have increased, as they are now calculated as 12% of…
Walk into a dairy aisle in India and the milk packets do not just sit there as plain white pouches. They arrive in a neat little colour code: blue, green, orange and sometimes more. For many shoppers, that splash of colour is the quickest clue to what is inside the packet. It signals whether the…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that more than three-quarters of all new code at the company is now generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The figure marks a rapid acceleration in Google’s internal transformation, jumping from 50% just six months ago to 75% today, signalling the beginning of the “agentic” era in software engineering. “We’ve…
India’s financial ecosystem has undergone a major transformation in recent years, with the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) emerging as the centrepiece of the country’s digital payments revolution. Just ten years ago, financial transactions in the country were slow and largely cash-dependent but now, they are just a touch or click away, enabling instant, seamless and…
The labour codes aim to simplify and consolidate India’s complex labour law framework. India’s new labour codes have introduced a structured distinction between the terms “employee” and “worker”. While all workers are employees, not all employees are workers. This distinction is more than just terminology – it determines the applicability of several statutory benefits and…
After social media posts claimed that a QR code reportedly printed on the Class 12 Mathematics question paper directed students to a YouTube video, the Central Board of Secondary Education has issued a clarification. In a post on microblogging platform X, the board said that the “security of the question papers remains uncompromised”. “On 09.03.2026,…
