India locked down, but challenges remain
As India entered a 21-day lockdown on March 25, 2020 in a bid to contain COVID-19 spread, thousands of daily wage labourers and migrant workers …
Manual scavenging has gone underground in India: WHO
Most undesirable, high-risk jobs typically subcontracted to temporary, informal workers based on their caste, says new report
Live in Mumbai, work in Mumbai, but these workers can't vote in Mumbai
Ragpickers, DNT members and construction workers in India's financial capital don't possess the most powerful tool in democracy
50 debt-ridden weavers in Varanasi committed suicide since Modi became PM
Conditions of weavers community got worse during Modi regime, reveal experts’ findings
Bad blood
A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed
Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes
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Unfriendly neighbourhoods
In their rush to meet the housing requirements of cities, planners are turning a blind eye to the quality of the built environment
Steelborn
Thousands suffer in India's ship-breaking yards while an unconcerned government invites more ships for scrapping
Carry on polluters
Some factories in Delhi are flouting a Supreme Court order to relocate polluting factories. Meanwhile, over 50,000 workers have been rendered …
People's initiatives
Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments
International Sex Workers Day: Odisha’s sex workers get little help amid COVID-19 lockdown
The COVID-19 lockdown means a complete loss of income, struggle for daily survival for sex workers across the country
Bamboo can generate 516.33 million man days of work in India every year
With most of the global export market for bamboo products yet to be tapped and potential to generate 516.33 million man days of work every year, …
COVID-19: For migrant workers, a long road ahead
Back home, several daily wagers find themselves endlessly waiting to earn again
Use revenue-sharing model for development, land acquisition
Access to village commons improved livelihoods but some recent state policies seek to grab them
‘Globotics could disrupt lives of millions of skilled workers’
Richard Baldwin, professor of International Economics, talks to DTE on protectionism, globalisation and the rise of robotics
'If humans, robots work together productivity will be higher'
Naresh Kantoor, managing director of Gurugram-based Encon Systems International, a firm that assembles industrial robots, says these machines do …
Families of 120 of 121 doctors who died of COVID-19 in Bihar yet to get compensation
The delay in compensation have demoralised doctors who are living in fear after the recent spate of deaths in the state
Change in immigration rules flayed
A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire
All in a day's work
For women in the hill area of Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh, life is not easy. They have to wear the skin off their knuckles to scrape together a living
Against the wind
Government policies and land prices are preventing companies from setting up wind mills in Nagercoil
COVID-19 stimulus: How will states identify unregistered migrant workers?
The Union government set aside Rs 3,500 cr for migrant workers not registered under NFSA
COVID-19 labour laws dilution: ‘Neo-liberal character has eroded welfare state’
We have moved back to the 19th century in regard to labour laws, says labour economist KR Shyam Sundar
Bihar doctors worried as more healthcare workers fall prey to COVID-19
At least 150 healthcare professionals, including 100 doctors, have tested positive for COVID-19 so far in the state
Manual scavenging: Non-existent for govt, yet people die 30-ft under ground
The recent deaths of five manual scavengers again raises the question of how far will India let this problem go
STEMming brain drain in COVID-19 era
Brain drain is likely to re-emerge as an important conflict of interest between source and recipient countries