Traders to oppose local bodies tax in Supreme Court

Sudha Bharadwaj is a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee). I interviewed her in Raipur on March 5, 2013. JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you ...

As the world celebrated rights of workers to a dignified living on this Labour Day, the "indefinite strike" of several thousands labourers of Delhi Municipal Corporation, demanding regularisation of jobs, better salary and working conditions entered ...

Domestic workers in Pune have alleged they're facing difficulty getting IDs of the state government's Domestic Workers' Welfare Board because of vested political interests. Over 50,000 domestic workers — mostly women — have registered themselves ...

HYDERABAD, May 1: Programmes were held and rallies taken out across Sindh on Wednesday to pay homage to the labourers killed in Chicago in 1886 for demanding their basic rights. Workers and activists belonging to various organisations, institutions ...

City is facing sanitation problem once again because of tussle between A2Z company and its employees. The company has given sub contract to another company to lift the garbage of the city and its employees are opposing it. Employees union of A2Z on ...

Our Correspondent Fatehgarh Sahib, March 22 Liquor vends of the district have been allotted for licence fee of 85,22,31,000 which is 5.8 per cent more than that of the previous year. The draw of lots for the year 2013-14 for allotment of liquor ...

Patients at Mumbai's only tuberculosis hospital at Sewri get a fresh set of clothes only once in three or four days because the clothes disinfecting boiler at the hospital has been shut down. Hospitals are supposed to give patients a set of washed ...