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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicLabour Ministry

Topic: Labour Ministry

Database for unorganised workers expected to take off this month, after several missed deadlines

On 29 June, the Supreme Court had fixed 31 July as the deadline for the Centre to make the portal operational. The database’s dry run and security audit is underway now.

US Senate confirms Indian-American Seema Nanda as solicitor for labour department

Nanda also served in the Labour department under the Obama Administration and her office now will play a central role in fighting Covid, climate change and other legal challenges.

Labour codes will miss July date as states aren’t ready, govt target now 1 Oct: Gangwar

New Delhi: The implementation of the Narendra Modi government’s four labour codes is being delayed due to the tardiness on the part of the...

Modi govt needs 3-4 months to roll out database of migrant labour, SC asks why the delay

A comprehensive database of workers employed in unorganised sector was announced in the aftermath of the migrants' crisis last year and was supposed to be completed by June 2021.

Govt sets up expert panel to fix national minimum wage

The group, led by Prof Ajit Mishra, will look into the international best practices on wages and evolve scientific criteria for fixation of minimum wages.

Modi govt defers implementation of 4 labour codes as states yet to finalise relevant rules

The labour ministry had envisaged implementing the four codes on industrial relations, wages, social security and occupational health safety & working conditions from 1 April 2021.

This is how Modi govt plans to get migrant workers enrolled under national database

The national database will enrol workers in the unorganised sector to help them find out about welfare schemes meant for them.

Work from home here to stay, labour ministry adds it in standing order for service sector

Standing orders are an employment contract that spell out the rules of conduct for employees in industrial establishments that have over 300 workers. 

Over 1 cr migrants returned to their native states after lockdown, UP sees most returns — govt

In Parliament Monday, Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar noted that the ministry did not have any information on the number of workers who lost their lives during lockdown.

Govt to relax penal provisions in draft social security code to improve ease of doing business

Changes have been proposed in revised and final version of proposed Code on Social Security, 2020, which is likely to come up for passage in monsoon session of Parliament.

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.