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 …

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

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

COVID-19: For migrant workers, a long road ahead

Back home, several daily wagers find themselves endlessly waiting to earn again 

Use revenue-sharing model for development, land acquisition

Access to village commons improved livelihoods but some recent state policies seek to grab them

‘Globotics could disrupt lives of millions of skilled workers’

Richard Baldwin, professor of International Economics, talks to DTE on protectionism, globalisation and the rise of robotics

'If humans, robots work together productivity will be higher'

Naresh Kantoor, managing director of Gurugram-based Encon Systems International, a firm that assembles industrial robots, says these machines do …

Bamboo can generate 516.33 million man days of work in India every year

With most of the global export market for bamboo products yet to be tapped and potential to generate 516.33 million man days of work every year, …

Change in immigration rules flayed

A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire

All in a day's work

For women in the hill area of Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh, life is not easy. They have to wear the skin off their knuckles to scrape together a living

Against the wind

Government policies and land prices are preventing companies from setting up wind mills in Nagercoil

COVID-19 stimulus: How will states identify unregistered migrant workers?

The Union government set aside Rs 3,500 cr for migrant workers not registered under NFSA 

Bihar doctors worried as more healthcare workers fall prey to COVID-19

At least 150 healthcare professionals, including 100 doctors, have tested positive for COVID-19 so far in the state

COVID-19 labour laws dilution: ‘Neo-liberal character has eroded welfare state’

We have moved back to the 19th century in regard to labour laws, says labour economist KR Shyam Sundar

COVID-19: How Koraput's tribal women hawkers are trying to recover livelihoods

The pandemic restricted the mobility of the women street vendors, pushing them to sell their wares online.

Has bureaucratic bungling led to problems for natural farming scheme in Andhra Pradesh

Five years after it was launched, non-payment of staff salaries, excessive hype plague the scheme, observers say

National Handloom Day: 98% funds allocated by Centre used in 3 years

0.1 million weavers taken on board on government portal to enable weavers to market and sell produce; Union govt plans to introduce new schemes

Too hot, heading south: how climate change may drive one-third of doctors out of the NT

If they do, this would leave a large gap in the territory’s health-care system, which already suffers from a fast turnover of staff