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Employees prefer stability to monetary gains: Experts
Stability seems to be the watchword rather than monetary incentives, till corporate hiring’s return to the pre-downturn levels. Despite the employment market being much better than 2008, employees are still cautious in changing their jobs. Global crisis has made employees more loyal to their existing organizations. They believe with positive attitude of management and active [...]
”6.5 million homes got 100 days employment under NREGA”
Rural Development Minister C P Joshi stated that only 65 lakh households had got 100 days employment under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme . This is although 10 crore people had got job cards when the programme was launched. When NREGA was launched 10 crore people got job cards where of these 4.6 [...]
Rupee at 18-month peak on $ weakness
The rupee strengthened to its highest level in more than 18 months on Monday morning. It was boosted by the dollar”s weakness against major currencies and mild gains in the local sharemarket. Meanwhile, at 9:07 a.m, the partially convertible rupee was at 45.10/11 per $, its strongest since Sept. 10, 2008 and above its close [...]
BJP against religion-based reservations’
Mr. B. Dattatreya, Former State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president said BJP is not against reservations for Muslims, but they are opposed to reservations on religious basis. Mr. Dattatreya said let the reservations be extended to those who are financially backward, irrespective of caste, creed and religion. He also alleged that the ruling Congress party [...]
TDP for sub-quota in women’s reservation
N Chandrababu Naidu, president of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will soon write a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh seeking a provision of sub-quota for backward classes and minorities in the reservation for women in law-making bodies by ncluding amendments in the bill when it is taken up by Lok Sabha. The party has [...]
400 militants waiting to cross LoC into Kashmir: Army
According to a report from Army which states that at least 400 militants are waiting across the Line of Control (LoC) to sneak into Kashmir. Brigadier General Staff (BGS) of the 15 Corps, Brigadier Gurmeet Singh said this year Army has occupied additional counter infiltration positions and repair of border fence has also commenced early. [...]