-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today summoned the Union labour secretary to exPLAin states' failure to utilise a staggering Rs 27,000 crore collected as cess for construction workers' welfare and rapped the Centre for its "unfortunate casual attitude" in the matter. A bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit, which deals with social justice matters, said the labour secretary should appear at the next hearing and submit an...
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Banking is a child’s PLAy for these slum kids in Ranchi -Saumya Mishra
-Hindustan Times Ranchi: Bankers come in pint size at an urban slum in Ranchi. And they run a bank for the children, by the children and of the children. Ten-year-old Nisha Kumari has an account in the bank — Children’s Development Khazana (CDK)—which opened in 2014. And her small pleasures of childhood is not held hostage to the priorities of her poor family. “During Durga Puja last year, a few relatives had visited...
More »In huge show of strength, lakhs of workers go on strike over 'anti-labour' reforms
-AFP NEW DELHI: Lakhs of workers across India went on strike on Wednesday in protest at PLAnned labour law reforms, the biggest show of strength by trade unions since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office. They say labour reforms PLAnned by Modi's government will put jobs at risk, and are demanding it scrap changes that would make it easier to lay off workers and shut down unproductive factories. All India Trade Union Congress...
More »Marathwada: India’s emerging farmer suicide capital -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express As many parts of the country reel under a back-to-back drought, Kavitha Iyer reports from the region that’s at the centre of the crisis. Weeks before hanging himself from a tree on his farm on June 1 this year, Kalyan Khomne, 55, read out a newspaper report to his son Shahdev. “It was about a farmer’s suicide in our taluka,” says 26-year-old Shahdev. His village, Nandurghat, and the nearby...
More »Every third child is bullied in school, shows study -Ranjani Ayyar
-The Times of India CHENNAI: When R Karthika, a Class 10 student of a school in Kodungaiyur comPLAined of bullying, virtually nobody took her seriously. On Monday, when her mother stepped out of the house, Karthika ended her life in a noose. Bullying - sometimes with tragic consequences - is more prevalent than we think. A recent study by research agency IMRB and ParentCircle, has revealed that every third child is bullied...
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