`Tea garden labourers severely discriminated`

Last Updated: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 15:12

Noted social activist Swami Agnivesh alleged that tea garden labourers of Cachar district in Assam were severely discriminated by the owners.

UP: 72 bonded labourers freed in raid at brick kiln

Last Updated: Friday, February 1, 2013, 13:38

Seventy-two bonded labourers were freed following a raid at a brick kiln at Bihari village in the neighbouring Baghpat district, police said Friday.

Eight kidnapped labourers released in Bihar

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 14:11

Three days after they were kidnapped by Maoists, eight labourers were Wednesday released by the ultra-left activists in Jamui district of Bihar, police said.

Eight kidnapped labourers still untraced

Last Updated: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 19:01

Eight bridge construction workers, kidnapped by armed Naxalites in Bihar`s Jamui district late Saturday night, remained untraced despite rescue operations by security forces, police said Sunday.

Angry labourers try to set tea factory on fire in Assam

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 15:11

Angry labourers ghearaoed the estate management and attempted to burn down the tea factory.

Two labourers killed as wall collapses in Uttar Pradesh

Last Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 15:11

Two labourers were killed when wall of the well from which they were taking out bricks collapsed in Mundali, police said on Saturday.

14 child labourers rescued from bangle making units

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 17:41

Fourteen child labourers were on Tuesday rescued from bangle making units in the capital during a raid conducted there.

88 workers died in industrial accidents in two yrs in Odisha

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 16:54

At least 88 labourers working in different big industries in Odisha died in accidents in the last two years, state assembly was told.

Over 5,000 child labourers rescued in Maha since 2005

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 14:41

As many as 5,215 children under the age of 14, employed in various units across Maharashtra have been rescued since 2005.

Retail inflation based on agri, rural labourers up in Sept

Last Updated: Friday, October 19, 2012, 22:00

These figures stood at 9.18 percent and 9.34 percent, respectively in August this year.

Meira asks for paying special attention to farmers & labourers

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 20:25

LS Speaker urged govts to pay special attention to the condition of farmers and labourers whose condition was pitiable though they were important wheels of the country.