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The Centre is understood to be concerned about sweeping punitive action taken by major companies against employees for their alleged moonlighting or taking up dual employment.

The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has added 18.23 lakh net members in the month of July - a manifestation of the continuing trend of bounce back of the economy and its positive spinoff on the related job market, post covid.

The tussle between Centre and AAP reached a flash-point on Wednesday with Delhi Chief Minister and party national Convener Arvind Kejriwal hitting out at BJP and Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit for his veto against a special assembly session in Punjab, saying there is end to democracy.

Handing a blow to the opposition parties efforts to form a broad-based alliance against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led juggernaut for the 2024 General elections, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal indicated on Sunday that his party would not be a part of such a venture.

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday dismissed Congress as a spent force in the poll-bound state of Gujarat and hence, it should not be taken seriously.

Modern slavery having componentsof forced labour and forced marriage rose “significantly” by five times from 2016-2021 in the world, pushing up the number of victims to 50 million globally, as per the latest “estimates” of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said his party would regularise services of employees in government departments in states where it formed the government.

The Centre has put focus on inclusion of left-out poor rural women across 34 states and Union Territories (UTs) into women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs) under its flagship Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).

In order to increase the mass production of medicines in the country and emerge as an export powerhouse, the Centre has asked the Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh governments to submit detailed project reports on bulk drug parks by November-end.

In keeping with its focus to enhance social security of unorganised workers, the Centre will splice the ongoing schemes for them with the provisions of the Social Security Code when it is formally implemented.