Kabul (Reuters): Dozens of Indian Labourers have been forced to take refuge in a Sikh temple in Kabul after job agents who promised lucrative jobs in the unstable capital disappeared, leaving the men penniless and without passports. Billions of dollars in western military contracts have turned Afghanistan — long a source of refugees fleeing chronic conflict — into an unlikely magnet for migrant workers willing to risk their lives for a...

Dibrugarh: Over a hundred birds died of suspected pesticide poisoning in a tea estate at Moran in Dibrugarh today. Forest officials said samples of the dead birds would be sent to the forensic laboratory for tests to ascertain the cause. Today’s deaths at Tiloijan tea estate comes close on the heels of migratory birds dying inside Kaziranga National Park on Thursday. Tea workers and people living in and around the...

The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 will be enforced in April/May after the Rules were put in place. Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam gave this assurance before a Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.S. Chauhan hearing a petition filed by advocate M.C....

The District Rural Development Agency has hiked the wage from January 1 ERODE: Hike in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) wage has got Erode farmers worried about labour shortage. Following State Government’s instruction, the District Rural Development Agency, which oversees NREGS implementation, hiked the wage January 1 onwards by Rs. 20 to Rs. 100 a day. Under NREGS below poverty line families get work for 100 days a year, which is...

Toxin-mixed fuel may deter adulterators but will pose danger to users After indirectly helping adulterators for seven long months to make money by diverting the kerosene meant for BPL families for mixing it with diesel, oil marketing companies (OMCs) are now thinking of introducing chemical markers which are hazardous for health and environment. The OMCs argued that during the technical evaluation of the markers, the hazardous chemicals would be removed....