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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

Gov’t admits that over 1 crore migrant labourers returned home on foot!

After failing to report data on migrant workers deaths and many frontline warriors of the pandemic Centre now suddenly talks about the number of migrant workers who returned home

Crores allocated for upliftment of manual scavengers remain unused: Lockdown impact?

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment tells Parliament that the scheme for manual scavenging prevention and rehabilitation is not applicable to those sanitation workers who are not identified as manual scavengers.

We stand in solidarity: Trade Unions oppose Centre’s anti-people laws

Denouncing anti-worker laws, National Trade Unions call for a protest on September 23 to address their demands.

Now, Smriti Irani says no data on anganwadi workforce!

Ministry of Women and Child Development submits before Parliament that it has no data for women workers who exited anganwadis.

No data to check unemployment rate in last 12 months?

After a lack of data on migrant workers, medical staff and sanitisation workers, the Centre now fails to provide monthly unemployment rates of the past year.

National Unemployment Day: Youth demand jobs, financial security

Protests held on the streets, and on social media, hashtag #NationalUnemploymentDay shared over 4.16 million times

MGNREGS under microscope: Members of Parliament ask for detailed performance report of scheme

MPs ask the Minister of Rural Development to show records of how MGNREGS had benefited workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

31 online complaints of labourers’ mental exploitation and harassment: Labour and Employment Minister

Questions on labour abuse and minimum wages of labourers raired in Parliament

No data, so no compensation: Centre’s shocking revelation on migrant labourer deaths!

The Ministry of Labour and Employment declares it has no records, though plight of migrant labourers has been widely reported in the media and documented by organisations like CJP

1 crore unemployed labourers in India: Ministry of Labour and Employment

The Minister of Labour and Employment answers some of the many questions posed by members of Parliament during the monsoon session

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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

Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO

Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Bihar:  SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision 

Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship

Mumbai’s Second Lifeline in ICU: Mumbaikars respond to call of “Save BEST”

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Dissent Note: Maharashtra Special Public Safety Bill, 2024

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One of Urdu’s Greatest Scholars, C.M. Naim, Passes Away

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