The Union government has directed the Directorate General Factory Advice Service &amp; Labour Institutes (DGFASLI) to conduct a radiology study on the impact of glass wool on the workers at Asia's largest shipbreaking yard in Alang, Gujarat, and also prepare guidelines for disposal of the substance, which is used mainly as insulators in ships.

DGFASLI to study impact of glass wool on Alang workers

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The Narendra Modi government's bid to generate funds to promote clean energy by introducing a Green Cess on every unit of conventional electricity generated in the state has not gone well with major industrial players of the state, who have now challenged the constitutional validity of the government's move in the Gujarat High Court.

Corporate giants oppose Green Cess, approach Gujarat High Court

Corporate giants approach Gujarat HC against green cess

In April 10 this year, SEWA, the Self-Employed Women&rsquo;s Association, which prefers to describe itself as a cooperative or trade union rather than a microfinance institution (MFI) (though it straddles both spheres), with a membership of 1.3 million women, completed 40 years of its existence. This gives us an ideal opportunity to review its historic contribution to enterprise but to also ask some fundamental questions about its future.

Forty years of SEWA

Use of Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SRFAESIA), 2002 or Securitisation Act, by cooperative bank to recover debts from defaulters has been challenged in the Gujarat High Court.

Use of Securitisation Act by cooperative banks challenged in Guj HC

Feeling the dearth of skilled manpower to handle modern technology, the Surat Diamond Association (SDA) is pitching for diamond polishing and jewellery fabrication courses in state-run Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and other institutes associated with the industry.

Premal Balan