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 …
Japanese workers entered the No.1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday for the first time since a hydrogen explosion ripped off its roof a day after a devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami. High radiation levels inside the building have prevented staff from entering to …
Beijing: At least 31 people, including 28 miners were trapped in flooded coal and iron mines in China, the state media reported on Sunday. Twenty-eight miners were trapped in a flooded colliery in southwest China
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 …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO : At least 35 sponge iron plants and 46 induction furnace (IF) units in the state are closed, pushing the fate of over fifty thousand work force into uncertainty. And almost all the remaining 70 sponge iron and another 110 induction furnace units are running at less …
Melvyn Thomas | TNN Surat:To safeguard the health of thousands of artisans working in the agate stone processing industry in Khambhat region, the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) plans to provide financial and other aid to them for setting up a non-hazardous stone processing system. The agate industry …
Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR: At least one engineer died and two others were battling for life when they sustained serious burn injuries after coming in contact with hot ash on campus of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited, Thelkoli in Sambalpur district, about 350 km from here on Sunday The deceased was …
NEW DELHI The tobacco industry is not only hazardous to society but it also exploits its workers by paying them meagre wages, especially women and children. The Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), on the basis of a study in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, released a report …
CSMCRI To Equip Salt Workers With Technology To Improve Quality, Yield Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Bhavnagar: Small and marginal saltpan workers in Rajula taluka of Amreli district, often known to be debt-ridden and poverty stricken, will now be armed with science and technology to help them earn more and break …
A file picture of an export oriented unit in Coimbatore. Arun S. The Commerce Ministry has rejected a proposal to extend the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to the export sector saying it is not feasible. The Ministry said the problem of labour shortage in export units …
While there is a clear policy shift towards large-scale industrialisation in the state of West Bengal (WB) during the early 1990s, not much improvement can be discerned in the performance of its manufacturing output. Moreover, contrary to the wider Indian experience, more than half of West Bengal
Economic growth is supposed to deliver prosperity. Higher incomes should mean better choices, better lives, an improved quality of life for us all. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. But things haven't always turned out that way.
BHUBANESWAR: For the first time in India, Orissa will become the only state to have a rehabilitation centre for industrial workers, who met with accidents while disbursing their duties. Earlier, the industrial workers were subjected only to a monetary benefit scheme following a mishap, but no other way to help …
The Lives of Ants by Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon,Oxford University Press, USA, $28 Since time immemorial, ants have captivated human beings. With numerous black-and-white images and eight pages of colour plates, the book depicts a world full of surprises, one which, even after decades of observation, is still replete …
Dhanya Matsa |ENS FOR the residents of three panchayats under the Puzhal Union in Tiruvallur District, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has become an integral part of their livelihood, but small industries situated there are wooing people from across Tamil Nadu and nearby Andhra Pradesh in search of cheap …
