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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicLabour Ministry

Topic: Labour Ministry

Social security soon for freelancers, Zomato-Swiggy delivery personnel, Ola-Uber cab drivers

Labour ministry accepts parliamentary panel’s recommendation to set up social security fund for gig and platform workers, to be paid for by aggregators.

Modi govt says suspension of labour laws not reform, raises concern over states changing laws

In a letter, the labour ministry told states suspension of labour laws is not in accordance with the Centre’s commitment to ILO conventions.

Bring domestic, gig economy workers under labour laws, House panel says in reform road map

The parliamentary panel on labour has also asked govt to clarify whether employers should continue paying wages if establishments are forced shut by a natural calamity.

Govt sets up 20 control rooms to address migrant workers’ issues due to Covid-19 lockdown

These control rooms have been set up to address wage-related grievances and mitigate problems of migrant workers through coordination with various state governments.

EPFO cuts interest rate on provident fund deposits to 8.5%

Finance ministry has been nudging labour ministry to align the EPF interest rate with other small saving schemes run by the govt such as the public provident fund.

Do Modi govt’s labour code amendments hurt worker rights or are they good for industry?

A long-standing demand of investors has been to reform India’s outdated labour laws and do away with the ‘inspector raj’ system.

Food delivery boy awarded Rs 1 lakh for saving lives during fire at Mumbai hospital

Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar awarded the boy who saved 10 lives beyond the call of his duty.

Six government websites down—NIC says ‘technical error’, Sitharaman says ‘hacking’

Websites for the ministry of defence, home affairs and four others went down Friday afternoon and the NIC insisted it was due to 'technical problems'.

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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.