-The Times of India KORAPUT: Underpaid and tortured at workplace, six tribals were rescued by Malkangiri police in association with their Hassan counterparts in Karnataka on Saturday. According to sources, an agent identified as Rama Khillo of Sileru in Andhra Pradesh had lured these people, aged between 20 and 25 years, from Malkangiri district's RAC 1 village underKorkunda block with promises of better livelihood at Hassan on April 5. "These people were taken...
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New drug price regime to alter structure-Ramnath Subbu
-The Hindu The average impact on industry profitability may be around 20 per cent The Indian consumer will benefit under the new Drug Pricing Control Order 2013 (DPCO 2013) which has been notified and will replace the DPCO 1995. The new order will bring 652 drugs under price control and will enable the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy 2012 to regulate prices of 348 drugs covered under the National List of Essential Medicines...
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-Outlook Labour is bought cheap, treated cheap-in India's garment factories as at Bangladeshi ones Even as the world remains morbidly fixated on the tragedy in Rana Plaza on the outskirts of Dhaka-the collapse of the textiles sweatshop three weeks ago buried 1,127 workers and sparked off a global outrage-it is business as usual at India's textile hubs. And you don't have to travel far from the city centre to...
More »An Abstract Hunger- Anuradha Raman
-Outlook A govt in credibility crisis wants to see the food security bill through The UPA-II government's flagship programme, the Food Security Bill, which comes with a neat price tag of Rs 1.23 lakh crore, holds the promise of eradicating hunger. If passed, the bill, it is expected, will ensure foodgrain to 67 per cent of the poor. Surely, with elections round the corner, no political party can risk opposing it....
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-The Telegraph Ranchi: The state brass today urged Jairam Ramesh to increase the wages under the Centre's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The demand was placed before the Union rural development minister, who was on a daylong visit to Ranchi, at a review meeting of rural projects at Sri Krishna Sinha Institute of Public Administration (SKIPA). "We have requested the Union minister to increase the daily wages for MGNREGS...
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