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The debate over work-life balance in India moved into Parliament on Friday when Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Supriya Sule introduced a private member’s proposal that seeks to give employees the legal right to disconnect from work after official hours. The “Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025” aims to create clear boundaries between professional demands and…
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha NEW DELHI: Govt does not wish for India to ever face UPA-era shortages of weapons, ammunition and equipment again, and wants a steady flow of revenue to keep its defence capabilities ready to meet the needs of modern warfare, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Friday as Lok…
Sitharaman said the bill proposes crucial reforms based on steps such as track-and-trace system. NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha on Tuesday returned to Lok Sabha the Manipur GST bill, which replaces an ordinance to implem-ent GST reforms in the state, with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserting that the bill will benefit people and businesses. She also…
NEW DELHI: An agreement has been reached between parliamentarians to run the House “smoothly” after the government gave in to the opposition’s demand to hold a discussion on the ongoing pan-India special intensive revision of electoral rolls.After two days of chaos and disruptions, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a Business Advisory Committee meeting with…
Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…
Actor Pratibha Ranta, who gained acclaim for her performance in ‘Laapataa Ladies’, India’s official entry for the Oscars 2025, has reportedly joined Kartik Aaryan in ‘Naagzilla: Naag Lok Ka Pehla Kaand.’ The film is directed by ‘Fukrey’ filmmaker Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and produced by Dharma Productions in collaboration with Mahaveer Jain Films. Pratibha Ranta steps…
Jitan Ram Manjhi (left), PM Modi with CM Nitish Kumar (center) and Chirag Paswan (right) NEW DELHI: In politics, there are decades when nothing happens, and days when decades happen. Was June 4, 2024, one such day?On the eve of the parliamentary results, pollsters swore by a “purna bahumat“, a resounding majority for the Bharatiya…
