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A. M. Jigeesh

New Delhi

Deputy Editor at The Hindu Business Line

Deputy Editor, The Hindu. PhD, Jamia Millia. General Secretary, Delhi Union of Journalists. Believes in Evolution and Trade Union Consciousness.

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  • Jagadesh Kumar’s tenure as UGC Chairman: Controversies and milestones

    2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | A. M. Jigeesh

    The University Grants Commission Chairman, Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, who superannuated from the top academic post on Monday, maintains that he pursued student-centric initiatives in the three years he spent at the helm of country’s higher education regulator.

  • Hold Indian Labour Conference to discuss issues of workforce, House panel tells govt

    3 weeks ago | thehindu.com | A. M. Jigeesh

    The Labour Standing Committee of Parliament, headed by senior BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai, has pulled up the Union Labour Ministry for not convening the Indian Labour Conference (ILC) during the last 10 years. Maintaining that the last ILC (46th) was held in 2015, the panel says the reasons for not holding it during the last 10 years have not been shared. It said the Ministry did not convey the tentative date of its next session despite being specifically asked to do so.

  • AAP, BJP stand for corporate interests, say farmers’ groups, deciding to intensify protests

    1 month ago | thehindu.com | A. M. Jigeesh

    After all 28 leaders of the protesting farmers who attended a discussion with Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on various issues, including the demand for statutory Minimum Support Price (MSP), were arrested on Wednesday (March 19, 2025), the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and the Samyukt Kisan Morcha-Non Political (SKM-NP) blamed both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government of working together to protect the interests...

  • It will take over 190 years for gender parity in employment: ILO report

    1 month ago | thehindu.com | A. M. Jigeesh

    Women hold just 30% of managerial positions globally, with only a modest improvement over the past two decades, according to ‘Women and the Economy: 30 Years after the Beijing Declaration’, a new brief released in Geneva by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

  • EPFO claims huge liability to pay off higher pension demands, workers, pensioners object

    1 month ago | thehindu.com | A. M. Jigeesh

    The Employees Provident Fund Organisation fears that it may have to spend ₹1,86,920 crore to pay just 50% of the total applicants for a higher pension. In a note circulated to the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) at a recent meeting, the EPFO provided an actuarial analysis of the current situation, which was termed incomplete by the workers’ representatives. They have asked the EPFO to present a detailed picture of the scenario.

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