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From diamond to Dust: Five years after demonetisation in India -Aarefa Johari & Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

-Scroll.in The shock move devastated India’s informal economy. Many small businesses never recovered, as a supply chain at the intersection of diamonds and plastic shows. Up till 8.30 pm on the night of November 8, 2016, Muniram Yadav was blissfully unaware of the announcement that had shaken the country just thirty minutes before. He was engrossed in work, in a tiny workshop in Mumbai’s Sakinaka suburb, supervising four labourers as they carried...

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Do not breathe easy on the silicosis prevention policy -Sowmya Sivakumar

-The Hindu The Government must make haste to prevent a killer disease that claims thousands of workers’ lives each year Long before COVID-19 hit, countless workers engaged in mines, construction and factories in India were silently dying of exposure to Dust, utmost exploitation and apathy. They continue to do so. Rajasthan’s pioneering model One State — Rajasthan — with the top-most share of over 17% in value of mineral production in the country and...

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India’s ‘Panama Papers’ on shell firms, tax loopholes gather Dust -Gopikrishnan

-DailyPioneer.com Tax firm’s leaked data includes correspondences with 33 Cos, HNWIs India’s own ‘Panama papers’ are gathering Dust with law enforcement agencies and the Delhi High Court (HC). The 1.5 GB leaked data belongs to the tax consulting firm Nishith Desai Associates and includes controversial tax-related correspondences involving 33 of India’s biggest corporates and several high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). A Delhi-based whistle-blower, who is a software engineer, first got the sensational data and communications...

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Hearing loss to tuberculosis: The occupational health hazards faced by garment workers -Sarayu Srinivasan, R Bhavani, Cibi S, Nithin Deepak & Soundarya Iyer

-TheNewsMinute.com Workers in these inDustries are prone to several health vulnerabilities including hearing loss, respiratory illnesses, and musculoskeletal discomfort, that need to be better understood and addressed. Bronchitis, tuberculosis, weight loss and hearing loss are oft-heard health problems among workers of fine-Dust producing inDustries in the Tirupur-Coimbatore region in Tamil Nadu. With a plethora of cotton spinning mills, garment units and power looms, these fine Dust producing inDustries are the primary employers...

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Kaatu Yaanam to Ratha Sali: TN foundation conserves 156 varieties of native paddy species -Anjana Shekar

-TheNewsMinute.com Founded by Ananthan Krishnan, Himakiran and Parthasarathy VM, all of them organic farmers, the main aim of the Thondaimandalam Foundation is to focus on sustainable rural livelihoods. They say if an elephant were to enter a harvest-ready kaatu yanam (180-day crop) rice field, no one would know. For the sea of paddy, which would stand at least eight-feet tall, would completely hide the pachyderm. S Ganapathi Tamizhselvan, who is a paddy...

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