hub of Ludhiana met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath following an invitation from him

Three leaders of Aam Aadmi Party( AAP) Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sanjeev Arora on Monday took oath as Rajya Sabha members from Punjab. All the three AAP leaders were elected unopposed from Punjab in March as no other political party had nominated any candidate the state for the Rajya Sabha elections. Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu administered the oath to the newly-elected AAP members of Rajya Sabha in his chamber at Parliament House. While Chadha is a senior lead

Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Thursday said the state has, for the first time, surpassed the Rs 30, 000-crore mark in revenue collection as VAT, CST, GST, PSDT( state development tax), and excise in the first nine months of a fiscal year." In the current fiscal year, the total revenue received from these taxes up to December is Rs 31, 156.31 crore, whereas in the fiscal year 2023-24, the total revenue collection from these taxes was Rs 27, 927.31 crore," Cheema said in an offici

An umbrella body for micro, small and medium enterprises AICA on Wednesday sought immediate intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on rising prices of raw materials such as steel, iron ore, aluminum, copper, plastics and paper.As many as 170 industry associations have joined hands to form the All India Council of Association of MSMEs( AICA) in order to deal with issues of the sector hit hard by the pandemic.In a representation to the prime minister, AICA said that the sector is facing huge

Realty portal Housing. com on Friday said online searches for residential properties on its platform increased in June after witnessing a decline in the preceding two months, owing to the second wave of COVID pandemic, indicating a possible revival in actual demand in the second half of this year. Delhi-NCR region( comprising Gurugram, Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad micro markets) witnessed maximum online property searches by potential homebuyers in June to secure the top position

Poverty increased also in one district each in Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh during the period.... Himanshu, assistant professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, said the increase in the ratio of multidimensionally poor people living in these districts could be due to the continuous influx of migrants from the interior regions of the country.... This should bring our attention to urban poverty, which continues to get scant attention from policymakers, ” he added

The government on Monday said 36, 250-tonne onion from its buffer stock has been released in the wholesale markets in 12-odd states and Union territories at prevailing rates in the last three weeks to arrest rising retail prices of the key kitchen staple.... They have also been asked to procure additional onion from farmers to increase the buffer stock quantities from the current 3 lakh tonne to 5 lakh tonne this year.... Since August 11, a total of 35, 250 tonne of buffer onion has been relea

But, it also suffered from various challenges such as bad condition of the road connecting major industrial areas in Panipat, Karnal, Jind and Rohtak.... This results in samples being sent over to Delhi for necessary testing and certification for clearance of exports and imports, adding to the total transaction time. Maharashtra dropped one place due to worsened road infrastructure and congestion at the port terminals.... State nodal agency has been appointed by theState for integrated develop

For Generation Z, born between the mid 1990s and the early 2010, a formal, contracted job with social security and healthcare benefits is more attractive than a high salary.... 93% of the informal employees claim that if an employer offered them a job with health benefits and a formal agreement as opposed to a higher salary without a contract, they would take it.... " Due to the chaos and confusion resulting from the Covid-19 virus and resulting confinement, health benefits and life insurance

The dedicated freight corridors of the Indian Railways have had a social-equalising effect with states that have a lower per-capita GDP experiencing significant benefits, a study by the University of New South Wales, Australia, has revealed. This suggests that the corridors are helping bridge the economic gap, offering a path towards more equitable economic growth across the country, it stated. Though the study, published in Elsevier Journal, focused on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor( WD