Shelf life

The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon,Oxford University Press, USA, $28

COVID-19: Bihar profiles returned migrant workers for skills

The industry department has profiled skills of more than 80,000 migrant workers so far

Making migrants count: The role of Indian judiciary amid COVID-19 pandemic

The Supreme Court’s recent order has shifted the focus from protecting workers’ legal rights to government largesse 

People from which Indian states migrate the most? Answers will surprise you

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh have the highest overall migration rate according to a recent ILO report

The bitter half

No sway for education to Haryana snake charmers: The Sapera community has been left far behind

Nearly 80% of the Saperas in urban areas are still illiterate

Simply put: Guillotine loom

SC stays Odisha HC order on migrants; allows them to return

Returning migrants narrate tales of anguish and misery

Apple makes them cry

Pledge>> Computers • China

Gearing up AIDS awareness

Blue-collar job declining worldwide

Migrant spectre

Shearers poisoned

Twice shy?

Unions greet labour ministry's plans sceptically

Boost for weavers

COVID-19: Unable to return home, Odisha migrant hangs self in Haryana

Gangadhar Biswal, from Kendrapara, was upset that he could not get back home from Yamunanagar due to the lockdown  

India locked down, but challenges remain

As India entered a 21-day lockdown on March 25, 2020 in a bid to contain COVID-19 spread, thousands of daily wage labourers and migrant workers …

Manual scavenging has gone underground in India: WHO

Most undesirable, high-risk jobs typically subcontracted to temporary, informal workers based on their caste, says new report

Live in Mumbai, work in Mumbai, but these workers can't vote in Mumbai

Ragpickers, DNT members and construction workers in India's financial capital don't possess the most powerful tool in democracy

50 debt-ridden weavers in Varanasi committed suicide since Modi became PM

Conditions of weavers community got worse during Modi regime, reveal experts’ findings

Bad blood

A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed

Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

FOOD, HEALTH AND SURVIVAL IN INDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price:

Unfriendly neighbourhoods

In their rush to meet the housing requirements of cities, planners are turning a blind eye to the quality of the built environment

Steelborn

Thousands suffer in India's ship-breaking yards while an unconcerned government invites more ships for scrapping

Carry on polluters

Some factories in Delhi are flouting a Supreme Court order to relocate polluting factories. Meanwhile, over 50,000 workers have been rendered …