Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
KOLKATA, 18 OCT: The state health department has decided to provide bicycles under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) to reach remote areas in the blocks. A team of officials from NRHM recently visited various block primary health care centres and primary health care …
But Expresses Inability To Match Minimum Wages Due To Paucity Of Funds Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: The stance of the ministry of rural development stands null and void. At least, as far as officials of the state government are concerned. For most of them that the delegation of the …
The main objectives of the this study in the four selected states are: To assess the social and economic situation of the tribal women; To study specific factors responsible for migration of tribal women from the tribal areas to various towns and cities in search of employment; To study the …
When environmental campaigners began tracking a hi-tech South Korean trawler off the coast of West Africa, they were looking for proof of illegal fishing of dwindling African stocks. What they uncovered was an altogether different kind of travesty: human degradation so extreme it echoed the slavery they thought had been …
IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly taking away the material that had been sitting for five years in an open-air scrapyard in the middle of the busiest part of town. Vegetables and …
The most important drinking water project for the state capital, Narmada Drinking Water Project, is going slow due to shortage of labourers. According to higher officers, even if the number of labourers has been increased, it will take at least 100 days more to complete the project. The construction agency, …
Once the mouthpiece of the Chinese government, the People’s Daily has become slightly heretical. The paper says wages need to rise to protect stability. It says the made-in-China model made popular by cheap labour and solid infrastructure is in for a crisis. Recent strikes in multinational firms in South China …
Bhavnagar: Working conditions at Alang ship-breaking yard were proved hazardous yet again on Sunday when a worker died of suffocation while dismantling a ship anchored at Sisodiya Ship Breaking Yard at Alang on Sunday. The incident also left one labourer seriously injured. According to police, the incident occurred at plot …
An all-India survey on the situation of employment and unemployment and migration particulars in India was carried out during NSS 64th round (July, 2007 to June, 2008). The collection of information on the employment and unemployment part of the schedule particulars was as a part of the annual series of …
Adilabad, May 31: As many as 25 labourers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) have died of sun stroke in the last 30 days at various places in the district. It is being alleged that the officials concerned had failed to provide the labourers with …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR In 1998, all operations at Kalarangi mines were stopped by the state government on the ground that it was a wildlife habitat The Orissa govern ment has decided to take steps to clear procedural hurdles to operationalise Sukinda chromite mines. The decision follows discussions at a …
The global recession may have turned many millionaires into paupers, but for the ship-breakers at Alang, a coastal stretch near Bhavnagar in Gujarat, it's been like manna from heaven. This ship-breaking yard-the biggest and only full-fledged yard for dismantling worn-out ships in India-is a business hub that works on a …
In this round, the scope of the survey on employment and unemployment was enhanced with the collection of information on migration particulars of the households, of the household members and of the out-migrants. In this survey, a nation-wide enquiry was conducted in a moderately large sample of households to provide …
Serum cotinine levels are a reliable marker of tobacco use. Few studies have validated questionnaires assessing smoking and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) against serum levels. We undertook such a study in industrial workers in India.
Female health workers in India face an increasing workload that affects their performance. The authors did a study in 2 districts of West Bengal, India, to quantify their workload and identify determinants of good performance.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) will be held in New Delhi, India, from 3-14 October 2010. Given the many unanswered questions that have marked the CWG process, the Housing and Land Rights Network
Delhi may well be bringing its citizens world-class infrastructure, thanks to the Commonwealth Games (CWG). But the human cost of development and the long-term impact on the poorer sections are either being underplayed or overlooked. As work races to meet the October deadline, stories abound of violation of labour laws, …
