
EPFO's guaranteed pension plan may remain only on paper
Neither the government, nor the employers or employees is willing to shell out the additional contribution of 0.63% of basic pay to fund pension.
Neither the government, nor the employers or employees is willing to shell out the additional contribution of 0.63% of basic pay to fund pension.
India will resist any attempt to take away the right of WTO-member nations to restrict export of food items and raise import tariffs beyond existing levels.
India's trade deficit with China is estimated to reach $60 billion by 2014-15, up nearly three-fold from $23 billion in 2010-11.
The labour ministry is also sitting on human resource development ministry's proposal on allowing primary school teachers to subscribe to RSBY.
India has decided to seek consultations with the US on the 'wrongful' imposition of penal duties on its steel exports.
Government has indicated that it intends to return to the fiscal consolidation road map promised in the February budget from the next year onwards.
The suggestion comes in the backdrop of SEZs becoming less appealing to investors following partial withdrawal of tax incentives this fiscal.
For India, the big-ticket beneficiaries of the visa relaxation rule would be information technology and IT-enabled services sectors.
Rich nations are likely to seek a ban on food export curbs as part of a solution to the global food crisis, a move India vows to fight vehemently.
PM will make yet another attempt to convince the ten-member Asean group to conclude the long-pending free trade agreement on services.
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