Cost of COVID-19 lockdown: Who bears the burden?

A curfew of three weeks requires more financial remedies, especially for the low-income groups

COVID-19 lockdown will damage more than demonetisation: Pronab Sen

DTE talks to Pronab Sen, head of the Centre's Standing Committee on Economic Statistics, to make sense of the lockdown  

Clean air is a human right: WHO

World needs to reduce number of deaths from air pollution by two-thirds by 2030, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, WHO in his …

Is there an election angle to leather industry boost?

Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, hubs of the leather industry are also up for election this month  

SEWA helps working women gain confidence

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The Baigas and their weavers

The buzzword these days in Baigachak is the Baiga Mahapanchayat. It is an effort of Nai Disha, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Sijhora …

Voting without voters: Bihar migrant workers forced to sacrifice ballot rights due to financial strain

Require special provisions, free trips home to participate in democratic process

Health in Peril

Hard work pays

Hard manual labour may actually reduce the risk of breast cancer in women

Classify COVID-19 as ‘occupational disease’, trade union federation tells UK government

Section of Indian experts say the country needs to follow suit but is a long way off

Being darker makes being a migrant much harder

Migrants from 'developed' economies enjoy more clout

Menace at work

The unskilled Venkataswamy

Implement ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ by July 31: Supreme Court

It also asked states to bring in an appropriate scheme for distribution of dry ration to migrant labourers till COVID-19 pandemic lasts &…

Need a national policy to combat viral and other diseases with pandemic potential: Parliamentary report

Report also made observations about the failure of implementing the One Nation One Ration Card scheme among migrant workers

No, economic recovery has not brought about a drop in MGNREGA job demand: Experts

Delayed wages due to a lack of funds has eroded the confidence of job seekers in MGNREGA; This has driven down demand for work under the scheme …

Sweltering summers: India must safeguard workforce from heatwaves, warn experts

Proper implementation of government relief schemes, the impact of heat on workers, flexible working hours, should all be looked into, say experts

Odisha Panchayat polls: Caught in a web of debt, exploitative labour only option for migrant villagers

Panchayat elections have little significance for migrant villagvers who won't be casting their votes

We’re scared of 3rd COVID-19 wave: Migrant workers reflect on 2 years of turbulence

Two years on, ripples from the first COVID-19 wave continue to cast a shadow on lives of migrant workers

COVID-19 lockdown provides opportunity to save Punjab’s declining groundwater

Pandemic forced Punjabi farmers to adopt a less water- and labour intensive rice growing technique because of labour shortage; it now might …

Voting without voters: West Bengal may see migrants flocking home to vote & document citizenship status amid CAA worries

Migrants likely to influence fate of elections in state; CAA cloud advantage to Trinamool but BJP to leverage governance failure that led to …

Voting without voters: In Uttar Pradesh, areas with low turnout are hubs of migrant workers

EC plans to reach out to migrant workers via postcards to encourage them to vote, but it may be too little, too late

COVID-19 lockdown, recession backbreaking for informal workers, survey shows

The survey was done on 1,613 rural households in Bihar

Pesticide poisoning

Kerala's tryst with pesticide-related deaths continue

British trade union Amicus builds an international alliance