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Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces

The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.

Power Sector Employees Call Countrywide Strike on June 26 Against Privatisation

EEFI will also take part in the all-India strike being planned by central trade unions in May against the four labour codes.

TN: Samsung Workers Continue Protest, Accuse Management of Vindictive Action

The union has decided to hold a protest in front of the SIPCOT unit on February 20 and serve strike notice on February 21, if the talks scheduled on February 19 do not bring any positive outcome.

Delhi: Institutionalise ICDS, Say Thousands of Anganwadi Workers in National Convention

Workers and helpers demand gratuity as also a hike in payment of honorarium, which was last raised in 2018.

How US Uses, Exploits and Discards Migrant Labour!

The weaponistation of deportation is part of neoliberal policies that create inequality, serve the interest of the ruling elite, force people to migrate in search of work and criminalise them once they arrive.

Supreme Court: Calls for legal protections for domestic workers

Ensuring fair wages, social security, and dignity for India’s domestic workforce

ASHA Union Demands Hike in NHM Funds in Union Budget 2025, Social Security Benefits

Piece-rated incentives, at around Rs 2,000/month, were last revised 10 years ago, says AWFFI in open letter to Health Minister J P Nadda.

Open Letter to an Imaginary Supreme Leader of a country of billions

An Open Public Letter to an imaginary Supreme Leader of an imaginary country of a billion suffering fools. 

Taking Care of Children of Migrant Workers

A significant number of residents of Bhaggupurva hamlet in...

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

Beyond insurance: addressing the needs of India’s agricultural labour force

The 2020-21 Periodic Labour Force Survey reported that 46.5% of people in India are engaged in agricultural activities and yet beyond insurance and pension schemes there is nothing the union government offers

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The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) details a legal notice issued on behalf of the RSS over its documentation of censorship in India, and the police action that followed, raising concerns over freedom of expression

SC: Article 142, Mass Amnesties, and the Panchayatisation of the Rule of Law

Within a month of youth-led protests in Delhi and at least half a dozen other locations, the Supreme Court’s September 1 Order invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142 to quash criminal cases registered across at least five states. This examines the limitations of this ad hoc jurisprudence, arguing that while protection from abusive state prosecution is welcome, linking it to the cancellation of the September 5 march sets a troubling precedent. Constitutional scrutiny demanded a rigorous examination of alleged executive and police overreach, including blanket prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS and the shutdown of metro stations and internet services. Instead, the alleged excesses of Delhi and other police forces remain unadjudicated.

Need for Clarity on the SIR: An Open Letter to the Congress Leaders of Karnataka

While the national leadership of the party, leads and articulates the national campaign for the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, the state leadership of Karnataka, a state governed by the party, gives conflicting statements almost endorsing a process that has disenfranchised close to 10 million there

From Arunachal to Delhi, anti-dam protesters face state crackdown; detained allege sexual assault

Around 40 protesters from Arunachal Pradesh were detained during a solidarity demonstration, as the crackdown on indigenous resistance to the proposed mega dam intensifies

Beyond Appropriation: Vidya Bhushan Rawat’s recovery of Bose’s inclusive nationalism

Rawat’s book emerges from a unique perspective that argues –among other things – that Bose and Nehru must be understood through their competing strategies, and historical circumstances— not recruited retrospectively into opposing political camps; neither does the book place Bose beyond criticism, affirming however his intrinsic secular outlook while stressing on diverse networks that helped sustain the struggle for independence’ not a biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose but a chronicle of Indian National Army as well as India’s freedom Movement.

After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal

With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance