It’s not hard to find tender hands of children as young as five washing utensils at roadside dhabas or girls below 14 working as domestic helps in India’s IT hub Bangalore. A new e—journal is being started in another effort to fight the menace. The State Resource Centre (SRC) on Child Labour is all set to start the bi-monthly journal within the next three months. “The idea behind the e-journal...

In Maharashtra, where issues hurl themselves at you, the Opposition failed to mount a strong campaign on a single one of them. The front rows of the Mumbai-Nagpur flight are usually the province of the political class: MLAs to MPs, ministers and fixers. This time, though, quite a few of the occupants were celebrities: television and film stars, major and minor, middling and mediocre. It wasn’t the T-20 cricket match in...

In a shocking revelation about Bihar’s crumbling law and order situation, 116 villagers in Darbhanga are found to have purchased guns with the money they were given to build houses under the Indira Awas Yojna (IAY). The poor villagers felt they needed guns more than homes to confront continuous attacks by dacoits. In two other incidents reflecting rising public anger against frequent robberies in Bihar, three robbers were lynched in...

Sonebhadra (U.P.): Three employees of the Postal Department and two workers of the Forest Department were Arrested in the district and two others suspended on charges of serious violations in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, police said on Saturday. Police said Rs. 1.17 lakh in cash, 69 withdrawal forms and 44 pass books were recovered from the Arrested. Deputy Forest Ranger Dayaram and Forester Kesar Singh were suspended and...

Concern over the domestic economy should not result in barriers on free trade, according to Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia. While the country would benefit from opening itself up further to international competition, he promised that the interests of farmers and labour-intensive industries would be protected. In a discussion with journalists from The Hindu group on Wednesday, Mr. Scindia defended the Free Trade Agreement (FTA)...