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Citizens and experts rally to save Mumbai’s BEST buses from privatisation pitfalls

AMAB advocates for restoring public funding, ending exploitative contracts, and expanding bus services to meet the city’s growing needs

Workers (Bangladesh)

The author and photographer, a academic from JNU tells us stories through the camera; one lesson that is enduring and humbling, however is the excitement and respect that our neighbours, ordinary Bangladeshis have for Indians

Two Workers Dead in Fire at Slipper Factory in Narela Industrial Area: Delhi

New Delhi: Two workers have died after a fire broke...

Victory for Trade Unions: Abolition of Contractual Engagement in Govt Jobs in Odisha and Rajasthan

The initiatives by Odisha and Rajasthan governments have prompted political leaders from other states to raise demands for similar action from their state governments.

Migrant labour Bengali couple wrongfully detained as ‘Bangladeshi’ in Karnataka

News of the detention of a migrant labour couple, Palash Adhikary & Shukla Adhikary with their one and a half year old child, from the Tele village of Jourgram panchayat under Jamalpur Police station in East Burdwan, West Bengal for being wrongfully dubbed Bangladeshi has let loose a storm of protest

Bank Employees to Go on Strike for a Day on Nov 19 Against ‘Growing Attacks’

The industrial action, which is expected to be joined by lakhs of employees, thereby affecting banking services across the country, will also see the raising of a host of other non-financial demands, an AIBEA leader told NewsClick on Tuesday.

Joint meetings on labour codes fail to evolve consensus

A vast majority of the trade unions urge Bhupender Yadav to withdraw the four codes; outfits including the BMS demand that the Centre immediately convene the Indian Labour Conference

A path towards combined protection of the environment and workers’ livelihoods

Workers need compensation and reparation for the unemployment caused by environment regulations

“We do not sit at their doorpost”: Sanitation Castes and the Untouchability Within

Thinking false superiority to be true, sanitation castes continue to live in misconceptions.

Continuing deaths of sewer workers reveals a cynical culture of impunity

In an extremely tragic accident on October 5 in...

Agra: Shopkeepers, artisans near Taj Mahal face bleak future

Left in the lurch after court order barring commercial activities within 500 meters of Taj Mahal, many of them run small businesses that have been handed down over generations

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