Indefinite Mazdoor Satyagraha has been started at the Statue Circle in Jaipur against the irregularities in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) programmes in the state. The NGO Rozgar Evum Suchna ke Adhikar ka Abhiyan (RA Abhiyan) oganized a Mazdoor Haq Yatra from September 15, 2010 - October 1, 2010 to fulfill the demands of workers. The agitation was launched following irregularities in NREGA schemes in the state. The NGO RA Abhiyan...

Delhi is an anxious city this monsoon season, struggling to meet an onerous deadline. Preparations continue at a feverish pace for the 19th Commonwealth Games (CWG), which will bear down on the Indian metropolis October 3-14, along with some 8,500 athletes from the 71 states and territories that were once part of the British Empire. Around-the-clock construction and spells of heavy monsoon rain have turned Delhi into a swirl of mud...

With just a month remaining for sugarcane crushing, a confrontation between farmers and private millers in Uttar Pradesh on the price to be paid to growers is on the cards. In no exception to previous years, both parties have divergent views on what should a farmer get for his produce. At a meeting of a committee formed under the chairmanship of Uttar Pradesh Cane Commissioner Kamran Rizvi to fix the state-advised...

In the long speeches made at the opening ceremony of the CW games, every important individual, department or institution that made a contribution, was acknowledged. Did anyone hear a word about the workers who made these world-class games possible? Maybe it was just a slip or maybe it was not considered necessary. Anyway, the workers were not there for the speeches, having been driven out of the capital just a...

Delhi NGOs initiate a process to survey the city's homeless people and reach welfare schemes to them. IN the narrow lanes of Khari Baoli, Asia's largest wholesale spice and grocery market in the crowded Old Delhi area near the Red Fort, labourers grapple with heavy sacks of grain, pulses, and so on as they load them on to wooden trolleys or unload them from trucks. There is no room for...