WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding In Re: News item titled "Fire Tragedy in Maha glove factory claims 6 lives" appearing in Millennium dated 01.01.2024. Report says that in a fire incident in a hand glove manufacturing unit in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district of state of Maharashtra, six persons died. …
Submission by the Additional Director, Industrial Safety & Health, Pune regarding fire in a chemical factory in Pune, killing 18 dated 15/06/2021. The factory, M/s SVS Aqua Technologies LLP in Uravade, taluka Mulshi, district Pune made an application for grant of licence under Factories act 1948 on March 4, 2021. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News item published in the “Indian Express” dated 04.11.2020 titled “Ahmedabad: Nine killed as godown collapses after factory blast” dated 23/03/2021. The matter related to a blast at a chemical boiler factory at Pirana-Piplaj road, Ahemdabd on November …
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is interacting with other socio-economic and demographic factors to create a perfect storm of business model change in all industries, resulting in major disruptions to labour markets. New categories of jobs will emerge, partly or wholly displacing others. The skill sets required in both old and …
Standing Committee on Labour (2014-15) present this Third Report on `The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014’ relating to the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014 was introduced in Lok Sabha on 7.8.2014 and referred to the Committee by the Hon’ble Speaker, Lok Sabha for examination and report …
This report highlights serious labour rights and human rights violations faced by girls and young women employed in the Tamil Nadu spinning industry in South India, which is a major hub in the global knitwear sector, supplying some of the big name clothing brands including C&A;, HanesBrands, Mothercare and Primark. …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of NTPC Kahalagaon & Others Vs Nakul Das & Others dated 05/09/2014 regarding recruitment of labour in Kahalagaon Super Thermal Power Plant, Bihar. Preference was to be given, in various classes of such labour, to persons whose lands had been …
A Bill further to amend the Factories Act, 1948. This Act may be called the Factories (Amendment) Act, 2014. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this …
Today, we stand at a juncture where the chief beneficiaries of the neo-liberal model of “development” have succeeded in presenting it as the one best suited for everyone’s needs, which the Bharatiya Janata Party has used to garner electoral support. If we are honest about fighting Modi, it is time …
Even groundwater in the area is polluted: residents With the water from Mettur dam hardly reaching River Cauvery in Namakkal district, the effluents discharged from the unauthorised dyeing units in Pallipalayam and Komarapalayam into the river has become its only source of water. “Anyone crossing the bridge that connects Erode …
How do mass slum resettlement programmes in expanding megacities contribute to the reproduction of urban poverty? Chennai's premier resettlement colony, Kannagi Nagar, housing slum-dwellers evicted from the city since 2000 has integrated itself into the industrial, commercial and software economies of the information technology corridor on unfavourable terms, swelling the …
An assessment of the Maruti Suzuki Employees Union’s struggles against the Suzuki management in Manesar (Gurgaon) reveals that like central trade unions, plant unions also tend to reproduce a form of bureaucratic functioning. This results in a split between leaders and the rank and file – a tendency which often …
Four industrial workers died after inhaling hydrogen sulphide gas that leaked from a chemical factory in Tarapur on Tuesday evening. Seven other workers were taken to hospital, three of whom were unconscious till late at night. The other four were reported to be out of danger. The leak occurred at …
Shillong/Khliehriat, Aug. 29: The coal mines in Meghalaya are death traps, feel many migrant labourers who are engaged in extracting the black gold by adopting unscientific rat-hole mining methods. Because of the hazardous nature of work, the labourers continue to perish in the deep and dark tunnels while digging for …
Seven ship-breaking yards at Sitakund were Thursday fined Tk 36.50 lakh for violating environment protection rules and failure to maintain proper safety measures for the workers. The action was taken after inspection of the ship breaking yards by enforcement team led Environment Directorate chief Monwar Islam.
The fact that an economy, even when it experiences a higher growth rate in the capitalist segment, is saddled with an increasing unemployment rate, goes against the grain of conventional growth theory as indeed of the basic presumption underlying policymaking. In India, for instance, faced with growing misery in the …
