Mumbai: On April 29, the police raided a pub in Khar after receiving a tip-off about a flesh trade racket operational there, and detained 16 girls. However, families of many of the detainees say they are just college students or housewives from working class families who had only gone to the pub to have a good time. They claim they have been tagged prostitutes and consigned to a rehabilitation centre...
12:15 PM, May 09, 2012
Even as trade unions the world over are celebrating May Day with rallies, holidays and discussions, questions are being asked about the role of labour outfits in the changed liberal and globalised scenario. "Trade unions everywhere are losing their revolutionary character and are seen degenerating into litigation committees, striking deals and bargains with managements. Their preoccupation is no longer waging a class struggle or sharpening the political consciousness of their...
01:25 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: International Labour Day (also known as May Day or International Workers' Day) celebrates the various labour and left-wing movements across the world. It is mostly observed by holding street marches and demonstrations by working class people and their labour unions. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. It is also celebrated unofficially in many other countries. Labour Day has its origins in the eight-hour...
12:43 PM, May 01, 2012
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has finally been given a clean chit in the death case of National Conference party worker Haji Yousuf. The chief minister was exonerated in a magisterial inquiry, which said that the party worker died of heart attack. Omar, however, refused to comment on the issue. He said, "The Justice Bedi Commission has not concluded its inquiry. So I will not be commenting...
09:21 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: If a person's wife is knocking on the door when he's in bed with a call girl, chances of his getting out of the situation unscathed are rather remote. After stalling for an hour, 54-year-old Surendra Harischandra Chauhan thought he saw a window, or rather, a balcony of opportunity. The fact that his flat was on the third floor led to the strategy ending in disaster. According to police,...
01:34 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Kolkata: Workers of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday heckled human rights activists who once supported Mamata Banerjee during the Nandigram land acquisition campaign. The activists were protesting in Kolkata against slum eviction and political prisoners. The police reportedly chased away the TMC workers but also detained 6 human rights activists for not having permission to hold a rally. ...
01:45 PM, Apr 12, 2012
The relationship between domestic worker and employer is in a crisis It is urban India's most unresolved relationship. A relationship that goes to the ...
07:36 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Mumbai: Ashok Patil, a tea vendor at Mumbais Crawford Market area had a special visitor to his stall yesterday. A visitor called Jean-Benot Jaouen, who like Patil, participated in the Mumbai Marathon last January albeit in different categories. Frenchman Jaouen presented Patil Rs 9000 " half his prize money earnings " after reading his story in January 14, 2012 edition of MiD DAY in an article headlined: VENDOR SWAPS TEA...
12:19 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Pune: The two convicts in the Pune BPO employee rape-cum-murder case, Purshottam Borate and Pradip Kokate, have been sentenced to death. The court called it a rarest of the rare cases, saying it was 'premeditated' and 'heinous'. The two were pronounced guilty on Saturday by a Pune court. Twenty two-year-old Jyotikumari Chaudhary was raped and killed in November 2007. Her body was found at Wadgaon, off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, on...
01:43 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Pradesh Congress President Pradip Bhattacharya Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the killing of a Congress worker and alleged that party activists were under attack from both the Marxists and the Trinamool Congress in the state. "A Congress worker was killed Saturday night. We condemn this. We demand CBI probe into the killing. The Congress workers are being attacked by both CPI-M and Trinamool in the state,"...
08:50 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Samajwadi Party workers created a ruckus at Akhilesh Yadav's swearing-in ceremony in Lucknow. ...
02:13 PM, Mar 15, 2012
London: Women engaged in sex trade in most developing countries, especially in Asia, are nearly 14 times more likely to get infected by HIV compared to general women population, a new study has claimed. The research, an analysis of over 100 studies involving nearly 100,000 female sex workers in 50 low and medium-income countries, found that overall prevalence of HIV in these women was 12 per cent. But, they are...
01:01 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Srinagar: The counsel for the family of deceased National Conference worker Syed Mohammad Yusuf on Wednesday visited Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's residence in Srinagar. Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, counsel for the family of Yusuf, who died in police custody last year, visited the camp office inside Omar's residence. Dar's visit to the Chief Minister's house came after Justice (Retd) H S Bedi, probing the circumstances leading to the death of Yusuf,...
07:13 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: In fresh clashes between Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party workers in Hardoi one person died and five were injured on Saturday. Several instances of violence have been reported till now in Uttar Pradesh after Mulayam Singh Yadav's party swept the Assembly polls last week. Eight people were later arrested including a former gram pradhan. The former Gram Pradhan is said to be affiliated with the Samajwadi...
10:43 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Chennai: The move by the Tamil Nadu police to enumerate migrant workers, students and tenants on the basis of their language is an affront to the constitutional freedom of an Indian to live and work anywhere in the country, said civil rights activists and trade union leaders here Friday. Following heists in two banks in Chennai and a jewellery shop in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, the state police has asked...
07:59 AM, Mar 10, 2012
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