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West Bengal Jute Workers Demand Immediate Reopening of Mills
29 Sep 2020
Around 21 trade unions held a protest in Kolkata demanding pending salaries since past seven months.
Tarique Anwar
Bihar Elections: Remember Cycle Girl Jyoti Kumari? She’s Still Hoping to Join School
29 Sep 2020
Darbhanga: Do you remember Jyoti Kumari Paswan, the 16-year-old girl who cycled from Gurugram in Haryana to Darbhanga in Bihar in May this year with her ailing father, covering ove
Subodh Varma
Sacked -- 50 lakh Industrial Workers, 62 Lakh Professional Employees
20 Sep 2020
In addition, some 1.1 crore daily wage earners too lost their jobs compared with last year.
PTI
COVID-19 Pushes 150 Million More Children into Poverty: UNICEF
17 Sep 2020
The number of children living in multi-dimensional poverty has soared by 15% to approximately 1.2 billion after pandemic-induced lockdowns, says the analysis.
PTI
Homeless, Elderly Kerchief Vendor Struggles Amid COVID Near Delhi’s Upscale Khan Market
15 Sep 2020
The 79 year-old, who lost his home in an anti-encroachment drive, says he cannot enter the market as shopkeepers feel vendors like him may spread the novel coronavirus.
Subodh Varma
Six Months of Pandemic: Why India Lost the Battle
13 Sep 2020
It seems like a lifetime of heartache, worry, fear and uncertainty, but it was only six months ago, on March 11, that the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Shikha Mukerjee
Is Modi Govt Using Pandemic Crisis for Political Gain?
02 Sep 2020
The strategy of the Narendra Modi government is to insulate itself from everyday management of the crisis and make the states appear as bunglers.
Subodh Varma
Indian Economy Falls of the Cliff
01 Sep 2020
Economic growth plunged by nearly 23%, making India the worst performing among all major economies of the world.
PTI
Lockdown Shrinks Economy Further by 23.9% in April-June, a First in Decades
31 Aug 2020
Construction, manufacturing, mining sectors see sharpest decline in gross value added. Only agriculture does relatively well.
PTI
Hunger, Joblessness Driving Bihar, Odisha Migrant Workers Back to Cities
27 Aug 2020
Employers, many of whom had virtually abandoned migrant labourers, are sending train, bus and even flight tickets to fetch them back as factories whir back to life, construction activities pick up…