The Supreme Court has asked the judiciary and statutory bodies to take into account objectives of industrial peace and economic justice while deciding on disputes related to unfair labour practices. The issue of unfair labour practice has to be decided in the changed circumstances of economic liberalisation and economic reforms, the court said, setting aside the Bombay High Court order against Siemens. "Today every state, which has to don the mantle of...
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RTI activist in Mumbai attacked
-The Times of India An RTI activist was attacked by four people, two of them believed to be cricket bookies, with a chopper and hammer in subur-ban Kandivali in Mumbai, police said. According to police, the activist, Mehul Kataria, 39, was walking on the road on Friday night when the assailants started thrashing him. The accused ran away when people gathered around the place. Kataria was rushed to the nearby...
More »Cost of mining: dry lakes, barren fields across a state once green by Shalini Nair
While imposing a ban on mining in Karnataka’s Bellary district in July this year, the Supreme Court had reasoned that the massive environmental damage caused by excessive mining impinges on the constitutional right to life. In neighbouring Goa, the latest state rocked by a mining scandal, the destruction could be on an even larger scale if one compares mining figures and relates these to the areas of the large district and...
More »Foul play suspected in rearrest of alleged Maoist
-The Hindu An alleged Maoist activist was on Tuesday rearrested in Nagpur after being acquitted by the court of all charges against him, the counsels for the activist alleged on Wednesday. They alleged that he was being implicated in cases. They also said that they were manhandled by the police when they went to ask details about his arrest. “Arun Thomas Fereira was arrested in May 2007. Eight cases under UAPA (Unlawful...
More »1 in 5 Mumbaikars below poverty line by Linah Baliga
Twenty percent of people in the country's most populous city are below the poverty line (BPL). For Mumbai's population of about 1.25 crore, that means 25 lakh BPL people. This makes the number of those living in abject poverty in the city 4 lakh more than the population of say Nashik. The BPL figure comes from a survey carried out by the BMC in 2005-06 . The criterion was an income...
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