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₹25,000 per month (or less) is close to zero, implying they barely get past essential spending. Employees should get two choices: Whether to make any employee contribution at all (set at 12% right now), and if so, whether to opt out of the portion that goes to the defined-benefit Employee Pension Scheme (EPS) and contribute the sum fully to the core Employee Provident Fund (EFP) account. Effectiveness: Employment has shifted from being a lifetime contract to a taxicab relationship; most employees of this generation will have multiple employers, including themselves.

dhabas and hotels. The state government’s food department has banned the sale and cooking of non-vegetarian food items in the city on Monday, as part of the plan. Besides this, there will be quality and safety checks for langars and bhandars organized by the Ram Mandir administration, before any food items are served to devotees.

Election Commission of India has a task at hand — deciding on symbols of key regional parties embroiled in dispute. The two cases before ECI are related to Maharashtra's Nationalist Congress Party and Bihar's Lok Jantantrik Party. While NCP is part of INDIA bloc, LJP is in NDA fold. Another one is related to Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena. While its original 'bow and arrow' symbol has been given to the Eknath Shinde faction, the free symbol allocated to it — 'mashaal' or torch — is in dispute.

Bilkis Bano case turned themselves in on Sunday night at the Godhra sub-jail in Gujarat's Panchmahal district, complying with the deadline set by the Supreme Court. «All 11 convicts have surrendered before jail authorities late Sunday night,» said local Crime Branch inspector NL Desai. SC had on January 8 annulled the remission the Gujarat government granted to the 11 convicts in the high-profile case while slamming the State for being «complicit» with an accused and abusing its discretion.

Madonna is entangled in a legal battle as two dissatisfied fans, Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, take legal action over the considerable delays in her recent New York concerts. The plaintiffs allege false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and deceptive trade practices, shedding light on Madonna's historical pattern of tardiness, and questioning whether her legendary status should excuse repeated schedule breaches.

PM Modi has made Hindus self-aware which is not a small thing. We have said several times in public that we are not anti-Modi but his admirers. Name another prime minister of India who strengthened Hindus like Modi before.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister on Sunday appealed to people to make the consecration of Ram temple a historic day. The chief minister spoke to reporters in Ujjain amid celebrations ahead of the consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on Monday. «Two thousand years ago, Emperor Vikramaditya from Ujjain went to Ayodhya and rejuvenated the place and built a Ram temple, which was later demolished by (Mughal emperor) Babar.

Enforcement Directorate said on Sunday. The central agency had attached the properties in August last year as part of a provisional order issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The PMLA's adjudicating authority confirmed the said attachment order on January 18, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in a statement.

Bombay High Court dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by four law students challenging the Maharashtra government's decision declaring a public holiday on January 22, on account of the Pran Pratishtha ceremony at Ram Lalla Mandir in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, news agency ANI reported. The petitioners claimed that the holiday declared by the Maharashtra government was arbitrary and not in the power of the state govt to announce such a holiday.

Ram Lalla in his birth place in Ayodhya and the temple's 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony will be the beginning of the campaign for «reconstruction of Bharatvarsh» which is for harmony, unity, progress, peace and well-being of everyone, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday. In an article posted on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) website, Bhagwat referred to the «continuous struggle of the Hindu society» for the construction of the temple in Ayodhya and said the «conflict and bitterness» over the dispute should now come to an end. After years of legal struggle, the Supreme Court pronounced a «balanced» verdict on November 9, 2019, after examining «the truth and facts» and also hearing the arguments of all the parties in the case, he said.

consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya is set to take place on Monday in a grand ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the "Pran Pratishtha" ceremony, which commences at 12:20 pm and concludes by 1 pm.

ANI, Mishra said, “Today is the day before Pran Pratistha and is very important for all of us. All the arrangements have to be seen...it has to be ensured in such a way that all the assurances given to the nation may be fulfilled. We will start our work from 23rd January with new enthusiasm and a new commitment so that the entire temple can be built in 2024." Sharing more details on the construction plans, he said that seven more temples are to be built on the temple premises.

Ayodhya Ram Mandir Inauguration ceremony. AIMIM's Owaisi had said that Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was "very systematically snatched from the Muslims. Owaisi had questioned three “important incidents" that, he said, led to the situation the way it is today.

crime. Not because it is the bloodiest: Stalin and Mao killed many more people in gulags and famines than the nearly 6m Jews murdered by the Nazis. But the Holocaust was seen as so monstrous that the UN adopted the Genocide Convention, promising never again to allow an attempt to wipe out a group of people, or part of one, simply because of their nationality, race, religion or ethnicity.

The South African government says it will challenge an auction of artifacts belonging to the country’s anti-apartheid stalwart Nelson Mandela

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The surge in illegal activities, through Chinese loan apps, has raised concerns about the exploitation of unemployed youth and financially-stressed individuals in India.

legal history in 2019. It took more than 130 years to settle the Ayodhya title dispute as it went through the legal hierarchy from the Civil Court to the High Court and finally to the Supreme Court. Here are some of the important protagonists of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement who defied the odds and played a key role in bringing this case to a conclusion: Raghubar Das: He was a mahant of the Nirmohi Akhara, who moved a local court in 1885 for permission to build a'mandap' for Ram’s worship on the ‘chabutra’, or platform, in front of Babri Masjid.