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‘Anti-National Policies’: Central Trade Unions Call for Protest on July 23 against Privatisation of Defence Production
10 Jul 2021
The trade unions are protesting the Centre’s plan to corporatise the Ordnance Factories Board while implementing an ordinance that prohibits defence sector employees from striking.
Ronak Chhabra
OFB: Defence Federations to Observe July 8 as All India Black Day Against Centre’s ‘Draconian’ Ordinance
02 Jul 2021
They have also decided to lodge a complaint with the International Labour Organisation against the ordinance allowing the Centre to prohibit agitation and strike action by those engaged in “essential…
Ronak Chhabra
OFB: Ahead of Indefinite Strike, Centre Empowers Itself to Penalise Workers in ‘Essential Defence Services’
01 Jul 2021
Defence Federations called the Ordinance – designed on the lines of ESMA – 'brutal' and 'draconian'; they are to meet on Thursday evening to discuss a future course of action.
Ronak Chhabra
OFB: Defence Employees to Go On Indefinite Strike From July 26
28 Jun 2021
As agitated employees at ordnance factories prepare for strike action, defence federations secure support from other sections of central government employees and central trade unions.
PTI
2 Explosives-laden Drones Crash into IAF Station at Jammu Airport, 2 Injured
27 Jun 2021
Two IAF personnel were injured in the explosions that took place around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other.
Ronak Chhabra
Defence Federations To Discuss Indefinite Strike Against OFB Corporatisation
17 Jun 2021
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to convert the Ordnance Factory Board into seven new Defence Public Sector Undertakings; employees to burn effigies at defence establishments on June 19…
Anees Zargar
J&K: 3 Militants Killed as Security Operation Continues amid Fresh Covid Wave
11 May 2021
The region is under a lockdown but there has been no let up in the counter-insurgency operations against militants with 51 of them being killed so far this year.
D. Raghunandan
Rafale Deal Gets Murkier with yet Another Exposé
17 Apr 2021
The silence of both French and Indian governments, and regulatory agencies, on the three-part series by French investigative portal, Mediapart, is telling indeed.
D. Raghunandan
Indian Navy’s Indigenisation Push Gets Boost with AIP System for Submarines
18 Mar 2021
‘The Indian Navy had embarked on a determined process of transitioning from a ship-buying force to a ship-building one by 2030. This goal, albeit delayed, is nearing fruition, with most recent…
Ronak Chhabra
‘Conciliation Settlement Violated’: Defence Federations Write to Rajnath Singh over Corporatisation of OFB
11 Mar 2021
The letter, signed by representatives of all three recognized federations, hints that the Centre has failed in drawing lessons from farmers’ movement.