-AP New Delhi: India is failing to help and protect journalists who are facing violent threats or attacks for their work, an international watchdog agency said Monday, noting a pattern of resistance in investigating crimes targeting reporters. The Committee to Protect Journalists counted 27 journalists killed for their work since 1992, and noted that it was still investigating more than two dozen cases to determine whether those journalists’ deaths were also work-related....
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Jharkhand NREGA workers unpaid due to govt. mismanagement & apathy
The state of Jharkhand has been in the news recently but for the wrong reasons. The NREGS workers who worked for constructing dobhas (small farm ponds) across the state during April to June 2016 have been treated unfairly by the officials in the sense that they were not paid their due wages, alleges a group of local activists. Despite complaints being made by the aggrieved workers, no action has been...
More »Workin' Man Blues -Sarah Hafeez
-The Indian Express In the industrial areas of the National Capital Region, life is tied to the assembly line. But even if rarely, workers clear a space for that which seems impossible: thought and contemplation, and even the artistic life. When the whir of engines and the clang of metal against obstinate metal die down, when the neon lights go down in hundreds of sooty factory buildings in Haiderpur, Ashish Kumar opens...
More »Roofless in Delhi: Life by the Milliliter -Ananya Bhardwaj & Prawesh Lama
-Hindustan Times At least 9 homeless deaths are reported across Delhi every day. Most die of drug addiction. They die, unidentified across Delhi every year, and the numbers mount. In 2005, the number of unidentified bodies in Delhi was 2,202. In 2015, this figure rose to 3,285. In areas surrounding Kashmeri Gate, Old Delhi and Yamuna Bazar -- areas with most homeless -- the Delhi Police find at least five unidentified bodies every...
More »Care work: the future of work -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line Even though technological changes imperil many Jobs, care services are unlikely to be affected thanks to the significance of face-to-face human interaction involved in them Across the world there is much gloom and doom about the impact of technological changes on Jobs, as automation and other innovations are seen to threaten not just blue-collar Jobs but also many forms of office work. It is true that the way...
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