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Nearly 27 lakh workers are gearing up for a nationwide strike—triggered by a single move: the introduction of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025 in Parliament. These aren’t just any workers, but the people who keep the country’s power running—engineers, linemen, and staff across the electricity system. Centre is yet to table the Bill in the…
Eight women workers were killed on the Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway in Jalna district, Maharashtra, after a truck collided with a tempo in which they were standing. The accident occurred on Jalna’s Samruddhi Highway when the workers, waiting in a side lane to leave after work, were struck from behind by a truck that had changed lanes,…
PM Modi at tea garden in Dibrugarh NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited a tea garden in Dibrugarh, Assam, ahead of two public rallies in the poll-bound state.He described tea as the “soul of Assam.” “Tea is the soul of Assam! The tea from here has reached across the world. This morning…
The Centre has designated sectors such as steel, automobiles, textiles, dyes, chemicals and plastics as priorities. (AI image) LPG crisis for factories across the country seems to be easing as the government steps up availability of commercial liquefied petroleum gas. Production disruptions are gradually subsiding as supplies of commercial LPG improve and migrant workers return…
NEW DELHI: The decision of some West Asian cities, including Dubai, to start returning to business as usual amid an unrelenting war is forcing a significant number of Indians to spend lakhs to get back. These people had somehow managed to come to India after Feb 28 or were here before that and now are…
North Korean hackers are reportedly posing as remote IT workers for more companies. Cybersecurity experts have warned that the scheme, previously identified in the United States, is now affecting companies in Europe. The issue earlier drew attention in the US after an incident involving Amazon. In December 2025, the e-commerce giant’s chief security officer, Stephen…
KOLKATA: BJP supporters on the way to PM Narendra Modi’s Brigade rally attacked state minister Shashi Panja’s Girish Park home on Saturday as political street-fighting returned to the North Kolkata zone after a gap of more than a decade. Stones pelted at Panja’s home left the 63-year-old minister with injuries to her right shoulder, abdomen…
JAISALMER: Three workers died of suffocation on Friday after being exposed to toxic gas while cleaning a sludge tank at a textile factory in Rajasthan’s Balotra industrial area.The incident took place at Lalji Wala Mills, where the workers were cleaning a sludge tank. Toxic gas inside the tank caused them to lose consciousness. When no…
GUWAHATI: PM Modi will launch the distribution of land deeds to thousands of tea workers in poll-bound Assam on March 13, giving them a stake in plantations where they have lived and worked for two centuries since British planters brought them from villages of Chotanagpur division, Bihar and Bengal.Nearly 3.5 lakh families across 825 tea…
NEW DELHI: Even as tensions escalate across West Asia, queues outside visa application centres for Gulf countries in Delhi show little sign of slowing, with many workers saying economic compulsions leave them little choice but to travel to the restive region.Outside centres processing visas for UAE and Saudi Arabia on Monday, dozens of applicants were…
