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How a leaderless anti-CAA stir is mobilising volunteers, doctors & lawyers

Everything from a stage microphone to speakers to posters has been crowd-sourced

Finance ministry counters RBI, says stress in banking sector declining

According to the FSR, the regulator conducted macro stress tests for credit risks to assess the banking system's resilience to macroeconomic shocks under baseline conditions

FM directs CBI to use director identification number in notices to bankers

PSBs may report fraud through e-filing of FIRs on a designated email address of CBI

Govt plans to provide medical treatment to gig workers at a subsidised rate

This may come as a relief to such companies as they will not be compelled to bear the social security cost of its workers

Who will approve and release official surveys? Draft NSC Bill stays silent

However, while the Rangarajan commission had recommended making the NSC a 'nodal and empowered body for all core statistical activities of the country',

Govt plans to implement all four labour codes in one go, likely in 2020

The government is yet to issue a separate order notifying the date of its implementation

ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel complete acquisition of Essar Steel

ArcelorMittal announced that Aditya Mittal, president and CFO of ArcelorMittal, had been appointed chairman of AM/NS India and Dilip Oommen, the CEO

State-owned banks to help small businesses with loans in month-long drive

Banks will also consider requests from MSMEs for restructuring their stressed standard assets

Can't compare GDP data with consumer spending report, says govt panel

A fall in household spending is a signal that poverty may have increased, according to experts

Not in favour of scrapping consumer survey report: NSC's Bimal Kumar Roy

The government's concern is that the estimate does not look realistic. We are trying to examine the issues, says Bimal Kumar Roy

ESIC may cover gig economy workers as part of new Social Security Code Bill

The government has made an enabling provision in the code to provide insurance cover, under the ESI schemes, to gig, platform and plantation workers

Statistical Commission to discuss junked consumer spending report on Dec 4

The NSC is an autonomous body overlooking the country's statistical system and is headed by cryptologist Bimal Kumar Roy

Manufacturing contracts for first time in 2 yrs, pulls down GDP to 6-yr low

This is the second contraction in the sector on a quarterly basis in the past eight years - since the new GDP series started in 2012-13

Companies will soon be required to pay for re-skilling retrenched workers

The fund will be formed through contribution from employers equivalent to '15 days of wages last drawn' by workers being retrenched

Electoral bonds: FinMin knew serial number could reveal donor's identity

Ministry was reluctant to assign serial numbers initially, but relented after SBI raised concerns about internal control and reconciliation

Only 61% households used LPG for cooking as of Dec 2018, shows NSO data

Only 48.3 per cent of the rural households used LPG, while the figures were much higher in urban areas at 86.6 per cent, according to the NSO report

Rural India open defecation free? Not quite, shows NSO survey report

Around 71.3 per cent of rural households and 96.2 per cent of urban households had access to toilets during 2018, according to the survey

Govt releases 5 survey reports after uproar, holds back study it junked

Scholars across the world had appealed for the survey reports, including one on household consumer expenditure.

Over 200 global economists seek junked NSO report details from govt

Chorus to make junk NSO report public grows

Govt clears Code on Industrial Relations Bill; retrenchment norms not eased

Proposes to give legal backing to fixed-term employment