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Workers Cry for Justice!

The latest issue (dated April 25, 2026) of the popular magazine ‘Frontline’ has an incisive article entitled, ‘What Noida’s worker strikes tell us about the Labour Codes’ broken promise’....

Floods affect 30,000 in Assam as Covid-19 cases continue to rise

The first wave of the flash floods hit the state four days ago leading to over 8,000 people to take shelter in relief camps

Rajasthan govt retracts 12 hrs working day, AITUC lauds move, asks others to follow suit

UP has already withdrawn its notification and other states are facing heavy criticism

COVID-19 and the Indian Supreme Court

In ordinary times the Constitution is of course very important,but it is in times of crisis that the Constitution and the mechanisms to enforce it, are tested. That is why in the current context the failure of the Supreme Court becomes even starker

For migrant labourers returning home even the special trains are becoming death traps

Two deaths, lack of food and water, many unplanned ‘diversions’, the Indian Railways has never been so off track

Muslims light the pyre of 78-year-old Hindu man in Akola

Members of the Akola Kutchhi Memom Jamaat performed the funeral after the deceased’s family allegedly refused to do the same

Vapi Industries Association wants Gujarat Pollution Board to relax environmental clearance norms

Environmentalists slam demand, say shameful that insincere industries can pressure the government

Ahmedabad Civil Hospital “as good as a dungeon”: Guj HC slams state gov’t

Two days later, state government “discreetly” moves court for urgent hearing on Eid without informing litigant’s lawyers or Amicus Curiae!

Remembering Balbir Singh Sr

Was this Indian hockey idol denied his due allegedly for being a Sikh?

UP gov’t invokes ESMA, prohibits strikes for next six months

ESMA covers services such as railways, public transport buses, health services including hospitals, post and telegraph, airports and ports etc.

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