File photo: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Picture credit: Reuters) Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced the first resignation in his new UK government on Saturday when lawmaker Rosie Duffield left the Labour Party. Duffield accused Starmer of hypocrisy for accepting over £100,000 in gifts while cutting an annual £300 winter heating payment for about 10…
BENGALURU: Within days of the jobs-for-locals controversy, Karnataka is in the midst of another wrangle over labour. Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (Kitu) said Saturday the Karnataka govt plans to increase the working hours in IT and ITES (IT-enabled services) sector to 14 hours a day, from the maximum 10 hours (including overtime) that’s allowed…
LONDON: Donald Trump’s pick for running mate, J D Vance, said last week that Britain has become an “Islamist country” under Labour and could be “the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon”.The 39-year-old Ohio senator had said at a dinner at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington on July 10: “I…
MUMBAI: Citibank has expressed disappointment with the lack of “big bang” reforms in the BJP manifesto. However, they remain hopeful that these reforms can be introduced later on. In a research report, Citibank said that it could be a bit of a “let-down” that the structural reforms of land, labour, agriculture, privatisation, and opening up…
LONDON: Conservatives face a wipe-out worse than the one in 1997 when Tony Blair rose to power, according to the latest YouGov poll in the UK.YouGov projects that the Tories will win just 155 seats in the next general election, under UK PM Rishi Sunak, which is 210 seats less than the 365 seats the…
BENGALURU: Karnataka could be staring at a farm labour crisis, with Congress’s poll freebies being blamed for a section of the skilled workforce opting for a life on the dole or raising new demands like an increase in minimum wages, additional benefits and reduced working hours.Coffee plantations, which employ 5 lakh-odd out of the 30…
