Centre's rethink on Chandigarh Bill: No final decision taken

A DAY after a Bill to include Chandigarh in Article 240 of the Constitution, which empowers

the President to make regulations for the Union Territory and legislate directly, figured in a tentative list of Lok Sabha business for the winter session next month and led to an uproar in Punjab, the Centre said Sunday the proposal was "still under consideration" and it had "no intention of introducing any Bill to this effect" in the up-coming session of Parliament. 

Labour codes: What changes for workers and employers

OVER FIVE years after Parliament cleared the four labour codes replacing 29 central labour laws, the government has moved ahead with their implementation. Effective November 21, the four labour codes – Code on Wages, Code on Social Security, Industrial Relations Code, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code - seek to ease regulations and

compliance norms for employers, and ensure uniformity in wage structure and social security protection for workers.

How Tamil Nadu's record paddy harvest turned into a storage crisis

LAST WEEK, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to relax paddy procurement norms and raise targets to tackle the crisis in the state.

New labour codes are long overdue & welcome

THE ISSUE of factor market reforms - in particular, land and labour - has been at the heart of policy debates in India for decades. In its first term, the NDA government had taken a stab at land reform.

COP 30 moves needle on climate finance

At THE UNFCCC's annual conference of parties (COP), it's almost par for the course for deliberations to stretch into extra time. COP 30, which concluded in Belem, Brazil, on Saturday, also had to extend its deadline by 18 hours. -

'Sugar, salt and fat alerts must on front labels of food packets'

INDIA HAS recorded the fastest sales growth of ultra-processed foods and a rapid dietary transition, both of which are impacting public health on a large scale, increasing the burden of chronic illnesses. These are the findings of the latest The Lancet series on Ultra-Processed Foods

and Human Health.