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Former Delhi University Professor G.N. Saibaba celebrates with his family after being released from the Nagpur Central Jail after the Bombay High Court acquitted him in an alleged Maoist links case, in Nagpur on Mach 7, 2024.
Human Rights

G.N. Saibaba’s acquittal prompts calls to scrap UAPA

Additionally, the harsh and inhumane treatment meted out to prisoners underscores the urgent need for a law that criminalises such acts.
Ashutosh Sharma
Global Hunger Index

India’s 2024 GHI rank: Marginal improvement masks deep-rooted nutrition crisis

Child wasting, stunting, and undernutrition still remain formidable challenges, compounded by the lack of critical data.
T.K. Rajalakshmi
CONTROVERSY

Random enforcement of KYC rules is denying the poor their own money and dignity

Banks are freezing accounts without warning, forcing people to make costly trips to distant branches and pay bribes just to access pensions and wages.
Jean Drèze,Vipul Paikra,Natasha Trivedi
TRIBUTE

G.N. Saibaba’s death is an injustice

What was the real crime of Saibaba? He constantly raised his voice for the human rights of the weak, the oppressed and the wronged by the system.
Apoorvanand
Labour Rights

Samsung strike: Workers arrested as battle for union recognition continues

Tamil Nadu government swiftly dismantled protest site, arrested workers after they rejected a pact reached between Samsung and a “workmen committee”.
Siddarth Muralidharan

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E. Muthukumar, president of the Samsung India Workers Union, hopes that this strike ends in victory for the workers.

No difference between what is said by Samsung and Tamil Nadu government: E. Muthukumar

The SIWU president states that the strike focusses on the right to unionise and says victory for trade union rights is a victory for everyone.
Siddarth Muralidharan
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Delhi’s Madrasi Camp and its 2,000 Tamil migrants face demolition threat

Home to working class Tamils for over 60 years, this colony in Jangpura, Delhi’s migrant haven, gets caught in the BJP-AAP crossfire.
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Samsung workers take part in a strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, on September 16.

Samsung workers strike in Sriperumbudur. What’s driving India’s largest electronics workers’ protest?

Over 1,000 employees demand higher wages and union recognition, testing labour relations in the country’s burgeoning tech manufacturing sector.
Siddarth Muralidharan
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the Assembly session in Kolkata on September 3. While she has called the Aparajita Bill historic, women’s rights activists and lawyers call it anti-feminist.

Aparajita Bill: A knee-jerk reaction

Brought in response to the Kolkata hospital rape and murder, the Bill has been universally panned as regressive, unconstitutional, and anti-feminist.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

It cannot get dirtier, it can only get cleaner: Bina Paul

National Award-winning editor and WCC co-founder believes that the feudal mindset existing in certain sections of the Malayalam film industry must go.
R.K. Radhakrishnan
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