On the Foundation day of World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) today, i.e., 3rd October 2017, International Action Day for Migrants and Refugees, as well as Common Struggles against Poverty and War was observed at New Delhi. CITU, AITUC, UTUC, AIUTUC, AICCTU, TUCC organised this programme, as a person the call of the...

Reliance Communications (RCom), which is having a huge debt of around Rs.47,000 crore, was trying to seek a merger with the Aircel. Both the companies have signed agreement for the merger and have already moved the papers. However, due to procedural delay, the merger has not materialised so far, and both the companies ...

Private telecom operators Bharati Airtel and Idea Cellular have challenged the TRAI’s decision to cut down the Inter Connect Usage Charge (IUC) by 57%, in the Mumbai High Court. Recently, the TRAI has cut down the IUC from 60 paise to 14 paise. Airtel, Vodafone and Idea put together have 60% of the customer base....

Shri Manoj Sinha, Minister of State for Telecommunications, stated yesterday in the sidelines of the Indian Mobile Congress that, the government wants to give more relief to the telecom sectors who are facing financial crisis. The Minister stated that the Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) has recommended that the period of...

The US President, Donald Trump, has criticised Pakistan last month for it’s support to terror groups. In reply to this, the Pakistani foreign minister Khawaja Asif as stated that it was the United States which helped and strengthened these terror groups. In a meeting held at New York, Khawaja Asif has stated as f...

Sector after sector of the economy is in distress. Demonetisation has proved to be an unmitigated economic disaster. A badly conceived and poorly implemented GST has played havoc with business....

The Restructuring Branch of the Corporate Office has sent it?s proposal for monthly contribution of Rs.500/-, Rs.600/-, Rs.700/- and Rs.800/-, to be made by the Non-Executives, towards the Benevolent Fund. This amount is exorbitant. Earlier, BSNLEU had suggested monthly contribution of Rs.30/- from each Non-Executive. ...

BSNLEU has sought an informal meeting with the Director (HR), to discuss the following long pending HR issues. These issues remain unresolved even after discussion on a number of times with the Director (HR), GM (Estt.), as well as in the National Council. These issues are:- 1) HR issues lying pending in the BSNL Board...

The biggest advantage being enjoyed by the Modi government is the steep fall in the price of crude oil, in the international market. The price of crude oil was more than 100 US dollars before 3 years. But, in the past 2 years, price of crude oil has steeply fallen and it is being sold at around 50 US dollars. For examp...