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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
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Claims of employment rate increase a sham: Economists
New Delhi: At a time when the report of the...
Maha Dharani: A warning to Congress-led Karnataka government, deliver on poll promises or face people
After three days of intensive protests by farmers and workers from across the state, marked by all day and night sit-ins at Freedom Park Bengaluru, the organisers of the Maha Dharani (mass protest) has issued a stern warning to the state government while launching an all-out attack on the Modi regime at the centre; among the demands are withdrawal of anti-people laws passed by the previous state government
Uttarakhand: Saluts to the rat-hole miners, a wake up call to stop exploiting the Himalayas
Our heros are rat hole miners. Three big cheers and salaams to rat hole miners Feroz and Munna Quraishi, Rashid ,Irshad ,Naseem ,Monu ,Naseer Ankur ,Jatin, Saurabh, Waqeel Hasan and Devender & Gabbar Singh Negi; the 51-yr old foreman who showed real leadership qualities, kept morales high; and was the last to step out
SKM-CTU Call for a countrywide united worker-peasant struggle for both regime change and policy change
Following the call issued in August 2023, the sit-in protests have been conducted at dozens of locations all over the country
Maha Dharani: Mega protest at Freedom Park continues today
The Dharani is a part of the All-India level Kisan Majdoor Mahapadav being organised by Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and the Joint Committee of Trade Unions (JCTU). Notably, the Mahapadav will begin on November 26, and continue for three days; November 26 was also the day when the 13-month-long protests began in 2020 against the Centre’s farm laws.
Mahapadav/Samyuktha Horata: A Kisan-Mazdoor Historical Unity
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For the farmers and workers across the length and...
Manual Scavenging: 4 die cleaning septic tank in Surat
After the motor failed, four migrant workers set to the task of cleaning a septic tank by hand. When one of them failed to respond after venturing into the 25 feet deep tank, the rest of them followed suit - each to his own death.
‘Probe on,’ says CM as frantic effort to rescue 40 men from collapsed tunnel continues
The newspapers, The Hindu, Times of India, Hindustan Times and Indian Express reported Monday, November 13 morning, the day after Diwali, that the workers were reportedly trapped behind 40 metres of rubble. Scroll.in reported that they have been provided oxygen, water and food through pipes.
Scrap ‘deal’ to send Indian workers to Israel for replacing Palestinians: Central TUs
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Manual Scavenging: Eradicate the practice, ensure effective rehabilitation, scholarship, compensation, uphold dignity and liberty says SC
Supreme Court bench issues detailed directions to the Union and state government to implement the provisions of Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, conduct necessary surveys, co-ordinate with Commissions
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