A group of daily wagers are on a fast-unto-death at -14°C in Leh; their voices should be heeded

The workers, in a challenging environment like Ladakh, have alleged inhumanity and discrimination employment regularisation; it’s a gross …

Menstrual leave, neurodiversity, chronic illnesses: What if workplaces adapted to our bodies?

Are timetables and workplaces based on our individual biologies the way forward?

Census 2021: India's Urban-rural conundrum

We urbanise, we celebrate; but is urbanisation providing basic livelihood?

Simply Put: A different ODF

COVID-19 a double whammy for India’s urban poor

There is the shock of the pandemic plus the loss of livelihood

Coronavirus: Chinese media reports drop in new cases, WHO dismisses any trend

Wuhan hospital director dies due to COVID-19 infection

COVID-19: Bihar profiles returned migrant workers for skills

The industry department has profiled skills of more than 80,000 migrant workers so far

No sway for education to Haryana snake charmers: The Sapera community has been left far behind

Nearly 80% of the Saperas in urban areas are still illiterate

Simply put: Guillotine loom

SC stays Odisha HC order on migrants; allows them to return

Returning migrants narrate tales of anguish and misery

Simply put: Why pesticide

Odisha registers biggest COVID-19 spike, mostly migrants from Surat

34 migrants who had returned from Surat, tested positive, 24 of them from Ganjam

Create a million person days under MGNREGS: Patnaik to officers

He also asked them to ensure food security for migrant workers returning to the state

Stranded Odisha workers across India send SOS for food

Workers from Odisha are contacting anyone who can help them in a number of states

Coronavirus outbreak impacts Odisha: Migrant workers, tourism suffer

Thousands of Odisha's migrant workers go to west Asia to find work as plumbers

COVID-19 pushed 119-124 million into poverty: World Bank updates estimates

The number of pandemic-induced new poor is forecast to rise to 143-163 million in 2021

COVID-19: Sitharaman’s ‘agri bouquet’ does not cut ice with farm experts

Farmers need immediate help rather than plans for the future, they say

Classify COVID-19 as ‘occupational disease’, trade union federation tells UK government

Section of Indian experts say the country needs to follow suit but is a long way off

Being darker makes being a migrant much harder

Migrants from 'developed' economies enjoy more clout

COVID-19 lockdown, recession backbreaking for informal workers, survey shows

The survey was done on 1,613 rural households in Bihar

COVID-19: Migrant labourers are leaving Gujarat, again

The second COVID-19 wave has marred businesses, migrant workers face dearth of work

As told to Parliament (August 10, 2021): A third of India’s coastline under erosion

All that was discussed in the Houses through the day

As told to Parliament (September 16, 2020): No data on sanitation worker deaths amid COVID-19

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

Nepal sanitation workers fight COVID-19 unarmed

Nepal sanitation workers continue to clean without gloves, masks and shoes

Every hour, 21 people evicted from their homes in India amid pandemic: Report

Over 13,000 people were evicted during the peak of the 2nd COVID-19 wave