-TheWire.in Promises made are hardly kept and the responsibility to maintain basic public amenities such as toilets, sewage and clean water facilities falls on the slum-dwellers themselves. This article comes from a study undertaken as part of a Centre for New Economic Studies (CNES) Visual Storyboard Initiative. The three-part photo essay on this storyboard can be accessed through the following links (Part I; Part II; Part III) and all video essays uploaded...
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Packaged sugarcane juice to hit the shelves -Virendra Singh Rawat
-RuralVoice.in Kanpur-based National Sugar Institute (NSI) is Working on a novel technology to safely package pure sugarcane juice without the use of preservatives. For this purpose, the NSI has signed an MoU with the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a CSIR laboratory. Lucknow: Sugarcane juice is one of the most refreshing energy drinks, especially in summers; yet highly undersold and undervalued as well. The good news is this matrix may well change...
More »Women comprise nearly half of informal sector Workers, data from new national portal shows -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times Workers who have registered so far belong to diverse occupations, such as construction, apparel manufacturing, fishing, gig and platform Work, street vending as well as domestic Work. Nearly half of 40 million Workers of the country’s informal economy registered on a recently launched national portal are women, and most Workers regardless of gender are from disadvantaged castes, official data that shines new light on India’s invisible unorganised labour force shows. Trends...
More »Bengal Cases Double, Officials Blame Covid Rule Break During Durga Puja -Monideepa Banerjie
-NDTV.com Kolkata, which appears to be paying the price of puja shopping and pandal hopping, reported 242 new Covid infections this Friday. Last Friday, it was 127. Of these, 150 were fully vaccinated while 15 had the first dose. Kolkata: The COVID-19 numbers are on the rise in Kolkata since the end of Durga Puja festivities and now the graph is rising so sharply, safe houses and quarantine centres in the city...
More »Hit hard by cracker bans, Sivakasi’s fireWorks Workers are missing a transition plan -Hariprasad Radhakrishnan
-TheNewsMinute.com Caught between denialism and short-sightedness, vulnerable communities in Sivakasi bear the brunt of clampdowns due to air pollution. At the strike of a gavel in Delhi, lights go out in Sivakasi. When states located thousands of kilometres away place curbs, sales turn out to be a damp squib in the fireWorks capital. Year after year, about 6.5 lakh people in Sivakasi dependent on the fireWorks industry suffer from rude market shocks because...
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