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Losing ground

S. VISWANATHAN in Coimbatore, T.K. RAJALAKSHMI In Gurgaon & LYLA BAVADAM in Surat

Construction workers at a site in Chennai. In India, the ILO report says, casual workers earn 45 per cent less than regular workers.-MANDAL, ATREE

Wake-up call

THE World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization, produced by the International Labour Organisations (ILO) Int

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Workers at a construction site in Mysore. The schemes relating to life and disability have not been specified in terms of a concrete financial commitment in the Bill.-M.A. SRIRAM

Short on goodwill

THE 422.6-million unorganised workers in the country have little to celebrate despite the passage of the Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Bi

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Fuelling a crisis

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Congress will get clear majority

Interview with Congress leader Ashok Gehlot.

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Jaipur

BJP optimistic

Interview with O.P. Mathur, president, BJP Rajasthan unit.

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Nineteen-day-old Manji Yamada at the Supreme Court in New Delhi on August 13. The future of the child, born to a surrogate mother, hung in legal limbo after the Japanese couple who planned to take her home got divorced.-RAVEENDRAN/AFP

Abetting surrogacy

The Bill on surrogate motherhood focusses more on protecting private-sector interests than on providing a regulatory mechanism.

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From the margins

The AIDWAs convention calls on the government to do its duty by Indias Muslim women.

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A private party

The government appoints private companies to manage EPF deposits amid trade union opposition.

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Left party leaders D. Raja and A.B. Bardhan of the CPI, Prakash Karat of the CPI(M) and Debabrata Biswas of the Forward Bloc release a book on the Left stand on the nuclear deal, in New Delhi on July 10.-R.V. MOORTHY

Feeling betrayed

The Left parties feel cheated by the governments conduct over the deal and by the extent to which it deviated from the CMP.

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MEMBERS OF THE Save Indian Family Foundation staging a protest against Section 498A of the IPC and the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, in New Delhi in August last year.-V. SUDERSHAN

The real victim

Campaigns to amend Section 498A of the IPC citing misuse of the anti-dowry law are being strengthened in many parts of the country.

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P.S. Krishnan: 'I do not think there will be any unreasonable reaction if the exercise of categorisation is undertaken on an objective and socio-scientific basis.'-V.V. KRISHNAN

A rational solution

Interview with P.S. Krishnan, Retired Secretary, Ministry of Welfare.

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