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UP's labour pains

Contradictory moves won't help the cause of workers

'Treat with urgency': SC tells govt about pleas against compulsory wages

Home ministry has repealed order asking companies to pay wages during lockdown, but court says matter is larger and 'lot of people are affected'.

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Covid-19 crisis: Thackeray, Piyush Goyal fight it out over migrant trains

Piyush Goyal in his tweets demanded list of passengers from the Maharashtra government on the basis of the guidelines by the Ministry of Home Affairs

Coronavirus LIVE: WHO pauses hydroxychloroquine trial over safety concerns

Coronavirus update: India has overtaken Iran to become 10th worst affected country. Globally, there are 5,497,650 Covid-19 cases. Stay tuned with Business Standard for LIVE updates on Covid-19 cases

Liquidity, labour and logistics are the key challenges: JSW Steel's Rao

Ensuring return of labour as important as sending them back home, says Seshagiri Rao

UP maps migrant skills, aims to clones textile story of Vietnam, Bangladesh

Over 12,000 workers found to be trained in garment making and tailoring so far; more than 2.3 million have returned to UP from different states

States need to ask for permission if they want UP workers back: Adityanath

As per feedback received from migrant workers who reached Uttar Pradesh, Adityanath said safeguarding their rights should get utmost attention and importance

Notifying only 41 Shramik trains for Maharashtra for now: Piyush Goyal

The minister said that the Maharashtra government has provided a received list of only 46 trains, out of which five are to West Bengal and Odisha

Coronavirus: India overtakes Iran in cases, becomes 10th most affected

Coronavirus live updates: Globally, over 5,400,000 people infected by coronavirus so far. India's total number of Covid 19 cases is 138,041. Stay tuned with Business Standard for updates on Covid-19

Coronavirus LIVE: Sikkim detects first case; Ahmedabad 24 deaths in a day

Coronavirus updates: Globally, 5,308,190 people have been infected by coronavirus so far. India's total number of Covid 19 cases is 125,149. Stay tuned with Business Standard for updates on Covid-19

Railways draws plan to transport 4.6 million migrants in 10 days

As many as 3.6 million people taken to their homes in inter-state Shramik Special trains

'Treat citizens' wealth as national resource': Economists for tough steps in Covid-19 fight

Yogendra Yadav later clarified that the suggestion to treat all private assets as national resources had been wrongly interpreted as nationalisation of private property

Additional Rs 40,000 cr allocated for MGNREGS to help migrants, says FM

Also, public expenditure on health will be increased, she said without giving details. Investments in grassroot health institutions to be ramped up

Coronavirus LIVE: Haryana cases jump three-fold in last three weeks

Coronavirus latest news: Tamil Nadu has asked Centre to defer flight resumption order as corona cases continue to rise. Stay tuned with Business Standard for updates on Covid-19 cases

Oppn accuses Centre of usurping states' powers, demands revised stimulus

The opposition demanded that the Centre "consult state governments while allowing international/domestic flights".

Cyclone to Covid: SEEDS co-founders explain how India can fight disasters

Gupta and Sharma talk to Geetanjali Krishna about why India is always in the midst of some disaster or the other and how people could build resilience

Coronavirus LIVE: India tally rises to 112,442; Mumbai records 24,118 cases

Coronavirus LIVE updates: Maharashtra cases at 39,297, Delhi 11,088, Tamil Nadu 13,191. Stay tuned with Business Standard for updates on Covid-19 cases and death toll across the world

Labour Ministry to object to states' Ordinance plan on labour laws

UP, Gujarat govts are seeking to suspend major labour laws via this route; ministry firming up its response

For every positive coronavirus case, 20 negative tests done: ICMR

The government, however, said the mortality rate had remained less than half of the global average of 6.65 per cent.