Auhona Mukherjee

The Centre will also constitute a Central Advisory Board (CAB), which will hold consultations before recommending the national floor wage

EAC-PM Chairman S Mahendra Dev said weak labour demand, rather than social norms, has become the key barrier to raising women's labour force participation in India

Former Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia urged states to liberalise retrenchment norms and cut duties on industrial inputs to strengthen manufacturing competitiveness

The Labour Ministry and ILO are developing a global skills-based occupation framework to help GCCs map talent, identify skill gaps and strengthen workforce planning

India's higher education enrolment touched a record 45 million in 2023-24, but annual growth slowed sharply even as the Gross Enrolment Ratio and female participation continued to improve

Joint committee will finalise recognition norms and operational guidelines to enable higher education institutions to develop vocational qualifications and issue nationally recognised certificates

EPFO has launched the upgraded CITES 2.01 platform, enabling faster claim processing and service delivery, with FY26 provident fund interest set to be credited by July 15

The figure marked an improvement from 47.2 per cent a year earlier but showed that nearly one in two children still leave the school system before completing higher secondary education

The Centre has approved Strategic Investment Plans worth Rs 1,237.58 crore under PM-SETU and expanded the skilling programme beyond its pilot phase to all 200 identified ITI clusters

The proposed campus at Singhasari SEZ in Malang will begin with executive education programmes before introducing degree courses in a second phase

PM-EAC working paper finds women-centric cash transfer schemes in Maharashtra & Odisha increased savings, spending and household financial resilience while strengthening women's control over finances

Piyush Goyal says the Trade and Technology Council dialogue will complement the recently concluded India-EU free trade agreement, while India aims to conclude the Canada FTA within six months

ESIC plans a deemed health sciences university to unify its medical colleges, standardise education, boost research and strengthen governance across its expanding network

The HSBC India Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which tracks monthly changes in services activity, fell to 57.4 in June from 59.8 in May

The notified framework under the Social Security Code retains contribution rates, eases withdrawal rules, mandates digital compliance and strengthens governance for exempted provident fund trusts

Output, new orders, exports and hiring lose momentum as softer demand and intense competition weigh on factory activity, though the sector remains in expansion territory

The proposed work programme focuses on workplace surveillance, automation-led job losses, platform workers' rights and ethical AI ahead of the BRICS Trade Union Forum in Hyderabad

The weather office forecasts July rainfall at less than 94 per cent of the long period average and advises farmers to adopt water conservation measures amid a weak monsoon

Corporation approves direct management of upcoming ESI hospitals, extends the Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana till June 2027, and clears new medical education and healthcare initiatives

Production, demand and hiring sentiment softened in the April-June quarter amid geopolitical tensions, while exports and capacity utilisation remained relatively resilient, the FICCI survey said