-The Hindu Long shifts and failure to resolve payment and overtime issues allegedly led to the violence by the workers in an iPhone factory in Narasapura earlier this month. Sharath S. Srivatsa reports on the night of the unrest and the many violations of labour rules by Wistron Anxiety writ large on their faces, Abhishek and Sunil walk into a small playground littered with garbage. Their attentive eyes scan the area to...
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No action will be taken to demolish 48,000 slum clusters in Delhi, Centre tells Supreme Court
-The Hindu Two lakh families live in these houses situated within safety zones along rail tracks in Delhi The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Monday that no action would be taken to demolish 48,000 slum clusters situated within safety zones along rail tracks in Delhi immediately. Appearing before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said consultations were on among the Railways, the Delhi...
More »Covid-19 patients treated worse than animals in Delhi: Supreme Court -Japnam Bindra and Pretika Khanna
-Livemint.com * SC issued notices to the Centre and state governments of Delhi, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu * The case will be next heard on 17 June NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said covid-19 patients were treated “worse than animals" in Delhi, and sought response from the state government in a suo-motu cognizance taken on various reports highlighting the ill-treatment of patients and manhandling of bodies of the deceased. The...
More »In Delhi, hungry people join a 2-km-long food queue in peak afternoon sun -Vijayta Lalwani & Supriya Sharma
-Scroll.in Food distress is acute among migrant and working-class families. Bhalswa is home to Delhi’s largest open garbage dump – and working-class families who can’t afford to live in a less toxic place. Around noon on Saturday, a queue snaked around a bend in the road leading into the neighbourhood. Food was being distributed inside a community hall by the Shri Shiv Sevak Delhi Mahashakti Group, an organisation that runs kitchens during...
More »Hell on the Yamuna as hundreds starved for days after Delhi shelters went up in flames -Supriya Sharma & Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Migrant workers allege the administration stopped serving them food after shelters were set ablaze on Saturday. The banks of the Yamuna in Delhi have swollen up with men who cannot go home. On Tuesday afternoon, some lay curled over nothing more than a gamcha or cloth towel. A few guarded their bags and belongings by using them as pillows. Others had nothing on them apart from their clothes. Hundreds of these daily-wage...
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