It’s almost been a year since Tanushree Dutta accused co-star Nana Patekar of sexual harassment while shooting for a movie in 2008. This news came as a tsunami for Bollywood fraternity because Nana Patekar is a senior actor. But the actress was very firm, bold & outspoken about the miss- happenings that took place. This was recognized as India's #MeToo Movement.
Big Boss is one of the most popular and talked-about shows at the given time. Even after so many rumors of it being scripted and fake, people haven’t stopped watching it. It’s on its 13th Season with host Salman Khan. The way people see the show is very different. You can get a lot of drama, fights, cuss words and gossip.
The State-owned telecom company released a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for its employees with an aim that this will help the company to save around Rs 7,000 crores in the wage bill. From the Scheme, they are expecting that round about 70,000 to 80,000 employees will opt for it, which will be helping them in finance. Out of the total staff of 1.5 lakh, around 1 lakh employee are eligible to avail the Scheme.
As per the Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL P K Purwar, the Scheme will be open from November 4 and will be available till December 3. He added that the instructions are given to the people in Field units to inform the employees about the VRS scheme.
Switzerland's government has revealed a dozen dormant Swiss bank accounts that belong to Indians having funds lying with the risk to get liquefied and getting transferred to Switzerland government.
In an attempt to promote and increase the number of digital payments, RBI this month directed the Banks to no more charge any extra amount from the saving account holders who are doing National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) for payments. Earlier, RBI has also removed the processing charge that was imposed on its customers for doing NEFT.
According to the report, the most prominent Market Players, namely Reliance, Amazon, Flipkart, want to help the retail outlets in their business. Some of them want to use these Kirana stores as last-mile delivery points while few want these retail outlets to buy their inventory, thereby pushing them to get rid of the traditional distributors.
This step is made to help the economy grow and make India a secure place to do business. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, has announced in his recent annual meeting that his vision is to make living better of around 12 million Kirana store people with the help of the technology. This will make the working pattern of these stores easy, i.e., managing their billing, margins, inventory and other related benefits.
Reliance at present claims that they already have 25 lakh Kirana store people on-board, whereas Amazon and Flipkart have 23,000 and 17,000 Kirana store people respectively in their network.
In a recent Capital Market seminar organised by if Confederation of India Industry, SEBI chairman Ajay Tyagi said that of the total 91 listed government companies 45 of them do not comply with the minimum public shareholding norms, which is 25%.
He added that such public companies are required to come forward and comply with the norms, thereby increasing their public shareholding norms to at least 25%. Companies need to increase their liquidity and public listing to avoid any disputes in future.
He added, “This is something which can be done, and I think should be done. We have conveyed to the government also,”
The long-pending & extremely sensitive case has finally received its verdict. We are talking about the long-pending Ram Janmabhoomi & Babri Masjid land dispute. The land that is under dispute covers about 2.77 acres of land. The Supreme Court has awarded the land in Ayodhya for the construction of the temple. The Supreme Court of India has also stated that Muslims will be allotted with an alternate 5 acres of land within the city for the construction of the mosque. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and others headed the decision that came from the court today.
