-The Indian Express Government’s response to migrants’ plight, economic crisis, has been to unilaterally BRIng changes in labour laws. But industrial prosperity cannot be built on a race to the bottom for workers. Only weeks ago, India, and the entire world, witnessed the spectacle of the country’s employment precarity pour out on its roads and highways — men, women and children, in distress of having lost jobs, income and shelter, with no...
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Brutality of Hathras crime, brazen police abdication, have shaken and shamed us all -Nandita Rao and Iti Pandey
-The Indian Express We hope that our judiciary will exercise its immense constitutional power to lead and supervise a free, fair and speedy investigation into the heinous allegation of brutal rape and the completely illegal forced cremation and illegal detention by the UP police. People who died of the plague or some other contagious disease were carried out of the village and their bodies were burnt without the dignity of a proper...
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Nearly 24 fatal accidents and 47 serious accidents have happened in various coal mines of the country during this year till 31st August. Likewise, 18 fatal accidents and 13 serious accidents have taken place in non-coal mines during the same time period. The accident figures are low this year in comparison to the previous ones thanks to a lower demand for output from these mines against the backdrop of COVID-19...
More »Three Farm Bills and India’s Rural Economy -Vijay Jawandhiya and Ajay Dandekar
-TheWire.in With low levels of farmers' income and a lack of assured price mechanism, what impact will the three farm bills have in the long term on India's agrarian economy. Here's an analysis. Last week, the Union government passed three bills to replace the three ordinances that were enacted during the COVID-19 lockdown. These three bills, expected to BRIng revolutionary changes to agrarian context and help double farmers’ incomes are: The Farmers’...
More »Amnesty International’s closure received attention at ‘highest levels’ of U.S. government, says official -Sriram Lakshman
-The Hindu “We look forward to a response and a resolution to this situation,” a U.S. State Department official said. Washington DC: The U.S. administration and U.S. Congress have been “very, very closely” following the closure of Amnesty International in India following the freezing of its bank accounts by the government. The issue has received attention at the “highest levels” of the U.S. government as per a senior U.S. State Department official. “On...
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