A working group on NREGA asks for indexing wages to the farm wage index, besides reducing work hours. Justice often comes with a price. If workers of the country's only largescale wage employment programme are to be ensured a decent minimum wage for 100 days every year, it is sure to make many others wince. For, low wages mean more production, cheaper stuff, and so on. The supporters of low wages also...

They raise slogans against the alleged police repression on them for opposing acquisition of their land  Slogans such as ‘Tata Company Go Back' reverberated the air Leaders of several opposition parties attend the memorial function KALINGANAGAR: The cries of scores of hapless tribal women rented the air in this industrial area in Orissa's Jajpur district on Saturday as hundreds of villagers opposing displacement paid tributes to Laxman Jamuda who was killed in...

The Jagatsinghpur district administration will start a field-survey for the proposed steel plant of South Korean major Posco from tomorrow. “We have already completed the groundwork. Six teams have been constituted for this and survey will begin at the proposed site from Tuesday,” Jagatsingpur district collector Narayan Chandra Jena said. According to the government order, the district administration would exclude Dhinkia village, the epicentre of the anti-Posco movement, from the survey. Posco requires...

May 21 to be observed as ‘protest day' across Orissa  “Naveen Patnaik compromising people's interests for land acquisition” Public meeting to be held at Balitutha to express solidarity with villagers BHUBANESWAR: Several Opposition parties and mass organisations of Orissa on Sunday condemned the police action against villagers opposing the Posco-India's steel project in Jagatsinghpur district. They also warned the Biju Janata Dal government against using police force on innocent people to acquire...

RAJINDER SACHAR is one of India’s renowned civil rights activists. A former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, Sachar has done pioneering work in enabling a legal framework to assist hundreds who stand accused by the police across India for waging war against the State, many of them with little or dubious evidence. Though 87 years old, Sachar continues to work tirelessly with one of India’s key rights groups,...