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Demand that Modi provides Rs 1 crore compensation for migrant worker, Ram Narayan Baghel killed by right wing goons in Kerala: AIKS

Apart from condemning the shocking killing, by lynching of migrant worker, Ram Narayan Baghel killed by right wing goons belonging to the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh (RSS) and BJP in Palakkad, Kerala, the AIKS has demanded that the Modi Government to provide Rs. 1 crore as ex- gratia compensation to the family of the deceased

Labour Rights Endangered: Four labour codes passed without worker or state governments’ consultation or consent

The Peoples’ Commission on Public Sector and Services comprising of well-known academics and former government servants apart from public intellectuals has called for the immediate revocation of the recently, unilaterally enacted Four Labour Codes; demanded that existing labour laws be brought fully in alignment with the letter and spirit of the Directive Principles of the Constitution and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to which India is a signatory

MNREGA to G RAM G: Ideological shift, erosion of rural workers’ rights, increase of fiscal burden on states

In continuance of its assault on constitutional rights, the Constitution itself and a rights based framework in rural work, the Modi 3.0 government’s introduction of a Bill to replace the MGNREGA 2005 twenty years later negates the basic concept and approach of a robust demand driven law

‘Shankar Guha Niyogi: A Politics in red and green is testament to the path breaking experiments of a labour movement with a strong ecological...

The Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (CMM) with its all-encompassing vision that moved beyond a pure economist outlook and attempted to relate to national issues like war and militarism as also communalism

CJP submits detailed feedback to Labour Ministry on Draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025

Responding to the Union Ministry of Labour’s invitation of suggestions on the recently drafted Draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025(National Labour and Employment Policy of India), Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has intervened with a detailed critique

Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra

A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.

The Mubarakpur Saree in the Digital Age: Can e-commerce bypass traditional barriers?

An age-old saree weaving tradition is also one area brutally affected by the US-driven tariff war with India

Beyond the Clock: Deconstructing Telangana’s Labour Law Reform and the Flawed Pursuit of Investment

Enabling long, ten hour work days and minimal payment of overtime compensation, the INC-ruled Telangana government pushes ‘reform’ at the cost of workmen’s rights, and justice

Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

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Supreme Court brokers interim peace at bhoj shala, allows basant panchami pujas and Friday namaz under strict safeguards

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UP: 14-Year-Old Dalit Content Creator Ashwamit Gautam faces arrest, FIR over strong dissenting social media videos

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Bombay HC: Notice to Maharashtra state, police on UK doctor, Sangram Patil’s petition seeking quashing of LOC & FIR

The Bombay High Court on Thursday issued notice to the state government and other respondents seeking their response to a plea by UK doctor and YouTuber Sangram Patil; Patil a doctor of repute, and a Maharashtrian expat was detained on his arrival at Mumbai airport on January 10 and later prevented from leaving for the UK on Jan 19

A rare yet heart-warming coincidence: Hindu-Muslim Kidney transplant

A Hindu’s kidney in a Muslim’s body, and a Muslim’s kidney in a Hindu’s body—you tell me, what religion does this kidney belong to? Yesterday’s incident in Sambhajinagar shows that at certain moments, neither God nor Allah comes running to help. What comes instead is humanity and wisdom.

Removed Without Process: The Doyjan Bibi case and the Gauhati High Court’s Retreat from demanding deportation records

In refusing to question the absence of any deportation or handover records after a woman vanished from a holding centre and was reportedly transferred to the BSF, the Gauhati High Court has signalled a dangerous judicial tolerance for undocumented removals carried out in the name of sovereign authority

50,000 strong Adivasi, farmers march from Charoti to Palghar, hold indefinite dharna for land rights

The CPI (M)-led massive long march from Charoti to Palghar in Maharashtra ended with a dharna at the Collector’s office, Palghar

J & K: Attempt to muzzle FoE, Media? Police summons to media, journalists

The peremptory, even extra-legal summons to four journalists from national publications has drawn outrage; the repressive action, clearly an action of intimidation, is aimed at those who have reported on a controversial move by the J & K administration and police to collect information on Mosques etc in the union territory