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Friday, March 13, 2026
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Topic: Wages

Rs 6,434 cr wage dues pending for MGNREGS workers, maximum in UP & Tamil Nadu

Despite the programme running on a deficit of over Rs 12,000 crore, the central government did not increase the MGNREGS allocation in the revised budget for this financial year.

Parliamentary panel recommends increase in MGNREGS wages, linking it to an inflation index

Nearly a year after the government made the Aadhaar-Based Payment System mandatory to settle wages, the committee says alternative mechanisms should always operate side by side.

Real wages grew just 0.01% over the last 5 years and contracted in Haryana & UP, Ind-Ra report finds

India Ratings & Research's report, based on govt data, also points to the deteriorating quality of jobs in the country, including more self-employed and informal workers.

Will your salary grow this year? This ratings agency thinks so but people aren’t convinced

RBI’s quarterly survey in May shows that expectations of a hike are muted, while more employees believe that the work situation may worsen.

States with English-medium schools have higher wages. Look at Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab

What is the point of the National Education Policy’s insistence on Sanskrit and Hindi? Marathis and Gujaratis need their own Annadurai.

Why men can — and should — participate in the care economy too

If liberating women’s potential is the output, how might increasing men’s labour contribution to the paid care industry be the input?

A payment before end of contract can boost poor worker’s productivity by 13%, study shows

Researchers from UC Berkeley, MIT, Chicago Booth and France conducted a field experiment in Odisha to find that workers carry their mental burdens to work.

No industry can survive without workers: SC bats for negotiations on lockdown wage payment

The bench also directed that its order barring coercive action against employers who failed to pay wages during lockdown will continue to operate.

When MasterChef Australia returns for next season, Matt, Gary and George won’t be there

The development comes following revelations that George Calombaris’ hospitality group had underpaid employees by $7.8 million in wages.

Here’s what’s still holding working women back in 2018

Women are still paid less, female bosses are still in the minority and motherhood still carries the risk of total career derailment.

On Camera

When the scales tilt—Are our courts siding too often with the Centre?

A recent judgment of the Bombay High Court, ruled that the mere presence of a Jesus statue or the symbol of the crosscannot be seen as proof of conversion to Christianity.

A war in the Gulf, a crisis in Gujarat’s Morbi: India’s ceramics capital counts the cost

Morbi makes 80-90% of India’s ceramic exports. The West Asia conflict has cut its propane supply, shutting 200 factories and threatening 400 more—along with 9 lakh livelihoods.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.