Help sought for Indians in Gulf hit by global meltdownDUBAI - A Gulf-based Indian charitable body has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to dispense financial assistance to Indian workers in that region returning home after the global economic meltdown. CPI-M cadre burn down CITU office, angry CITU men attack mallKOLKATA - Activists of Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the labour wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Sunday attacked a mall here after their party office was set ablaze allegedly by some Marxist cadre, CITU members said. ASEAN leaders want proactive action for financial stabilityHUA HIN - ASEAN leaders Sunday stressed the necessity of proactive and decisive actions to restore market confidence and ensure continued financial stability as the global economic downturn was deepening. Oscar Fernandes lays foundation for employees hospital in HimachalMANDI - Union Labour and Employment Minister Oscar Fernandes Monday laid the foundation stone of the proposed Rs.10 billion Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Medical College and Hospital here. Army shells Tamils, LTTE prevents their flight: rights bodyNEW YORK - The Sri Lankan government should immediately cease indiscriminate artillery attacks on civilians in the north and its policy of detaining displaced people in internment camps, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday. ILO warns rising unemployment to push millions into povertyMANILA - More than 140 million people in Asia could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2009 as unemployment surges due to the global economic slowdown, an International Labour Organization (ILO) report warned Wednesday. EU faces 3.5 million job losses in 2009BRUSSELS - Up to 3.5 million European Union (EU) citizens face losing their jobs in 2009 owing to the current economic crisis, the EU’s executive warned Tuesday. No cheer for India’s children in interim budgetNEW DELHI - The interim budget for 2009-10, presented in the Lok Sabha Monday, has brought down allocation of various child welfare programmes as compared to previous years, says a budget analysis done by a city-based children’s rights organisation. 90 child workers rescued in JharkhandRANCHI - Authorities in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand Tuesday rescued around 90 child workers from hotels, eateries, business houses and other places of the district, an official said. 60 percent of Cuban workers shirk responsibilities : StudyHAVANA - Some 60 percent of Cuban workers shirk their job responsibilities, 46 percent of workers arrive late for work and 19 percent took more time than allowed for meals and breaks, a study said. Both Livni, Netanyahu declare victory in Israeli pollsTEL AVIV - All but final official results Wednesday morning showed no clear winner in Israel’s national elections, promising tough and complicated coalition negotiations ahead. Rebel BJP MP joins CongressNEW DELHI - A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Maharashtra, Hari Singh Rathore, Friday formally joined the Congress party. EU, India may reach free trade agreement deal: officialBRUSSELS - India’s ambassador to the European Union Jaimini Bhagwati has expressed confidence that the 27-member European Union and India will reach a deal on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Life and love under a tree for 25 years (Feature)RANCHI - Left without a roof over their heads for marrying against their families’ wishes, a couple in Jharkhand took shelter under a tree 25 years ago. It was to be their nest for the rest of their life. US stocks tumble on weak economic dataNEW YORK - US stocks tumbled Thursday as disappointing economic data of housing and unemployment and corporate earnings report weighed on the market. Kerala’s annual plan fixed at Rs.80.6 billionTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala government Saturday fixed the state’s annual plan for the next fiscal at Rs.8,650 crore (Rs.80.65 billion). Asian growth engines India, China dubbed ‘mostly unfree’ economiesWASHINGTON - Both India and China have been ranked as ‘mostly unfree’ economies by an annual ‘Index of Economic Freedom’ that also suggests the two countries could speed development in Asia if they press on with economic reform. ‘Greed plunged current economy into global crisis’WASHINGTON - Greed may have plunged the current economy into global crisis, for which both individual and increasingly materialistic culture are to blame. Hasina chooses 25 novice ministers, makes personal physician foreign ministerDHAKA - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has made her personal physician the foreign minister in her 32-member team in which as many as 25 are newcomers. Kolkata auto-rickshaw drivers protest ban, Trinamool calls strikeKOLKATA - Agitated auto-rickshaw drivers set ablaze a government bus here Friday, opposing the court ban on two-stroke public transport vehicles in the city, while the opposition Trinamool Congress stepped into the protest and called for a 12-hour auto and taxi strike Saturday. Right to Education bill puts great responsibility on schools (Comment)‘No failure till Class 8′, as enshrined in the Education Bill introduced last week in parliament, brings to the fore the huge level of responsibility that schools across the nation face in educating children - all the way till Class 8. This proposal protects the right of a child to education and also categorically states the importance of school contribution to writing, reading and speaking in the medium of instruction desired. Child labour, liquor addiction a blot on Agra shoe unitsAGRA - Thousands of children still slog it out in tiny shoe-making units despite a ban on employing them in factories in and around a city that remains in international limelight because of the Taj Mahal. What’s more, the industry has come to be plagued by liquor addiction. |
Topics
Poll Loading ...Latest TweetsLabour
Latest Friend FeedsLabour
|
