The bitter half

Migrant spectre

Shearers poisoned

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

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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 …

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's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

International Sex Workers Day: Odisha’s sex workers get little help amid COVID-19 lockdown

The COVID-19 lockdown means a complete loss of income, struggle for daily survival for sex workers across the country

Simply put: Why pesticide

Odisha registers biggest COVID-19 spike, mostly migrants from Surat

34 migrants who had returned from Surat, tested positive, 24 of them from Ganjam

Modernising energy

Dead beat

Workers offer wages

Rice and easy

Missing link

Families of 120 of 121 doctors who died of COVID-19 in Bihar yet to get compensation

The delay in compensation have demoralised doctors who are living in fear after the recent spate of deaths in the state