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LABOUR
June 2008	Bengal tea gardens spell death for workers by Aparajita Gupta, iGovernment, 04 June 2008 US indicts India on human trafficking and bonded labour by Krishnamurthy Ramasubbu, MINT, Mumbai, 12 Jun 2008 Navigating the Bermuda Triangle by Christopher Butel, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 25 Jun 2008
May 2008	Looking back, looking ahead on Labour Day, Ashish Sharma and Krishnamurthy Ramasubbu, MINT, Mumbai, 02 May 2008 Bill of rights for vendors, V. Kumara Swamy, The Telegraph, Kolkata, 07 May 2008 India's talent crunch, Ramesh Menon, DNA, Mumbai, 05 May 2008 Are these women under house arrest?, Anuja Agrawal, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 10 May 2008
March 2008	Migrants are good, Madhukar Sabnavis, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 17 Mar 2008 Migrant moolah, Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, Mumbai, 30 Mar 2008 Indian 'slaves' toil in US Gulf Coast, K.P. Nayar, The Telegraph, Calcutta,08 Mar 2008 Laboured concern, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 11Mar 2008 Grist For The Mill, Sanjana, Tehelka Magazine, 01 Mar 2008 Human Highways, Smita Gupta, Outlook, 03 Mar 2008 We'll take the town, Rishabh Rath, Kuldeep Singh Mann and Amit Sharma, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 16 Mar 2008 Why Biharis are despised. Shreesh Chaudhary, The Hindu, Chennai, 23 Mar 2008 Illegal strike call can get you sacked, Shibu Thomas, The Times of India, Mumbai, 20 Mar 2008 Migrants and a silent human rights crisis, Mukul Sharma, The Hindu, Chennai, 27 Mar 2008 Indian It shakedown, B Shekhar, Sahara Time Magazine, 24 Feb 2008 Beehive Shift: Drone To Buzz, Lola Nayar, Outlook Magazine, 31 Mar 2008 The migration of a 'different' kind of women, Shubha Chacko, The Deccan Herald,Bangalore, 01 Mar 2008 Climate change: India may see a migration storm, Khushboo Narayan, MINT, Mumbai, 26 Mar 2008
February 2008	Cross currents in labour decisions, M J Antony, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 06 Feb 2008 Being paise wise and rupee foolish, Jayalakshmi K, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 21 Feb 2008 Two tribals killed in police firing, Rathin Das, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 14 Feb 2008 Landgrab?, Maureen Nandini Mitra, Down to Earth Magazine, 15 Jan 2008
January 2008	For Asian workers in the Gulf, The Hindu, Chennai, 26 Jan 2008 India to fix minimum wage, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 24 Jan 2008
November 2007	Labour Laws Awaiting Parliament's Nod ,The Business Standard, Mumbai, 03 Nov 2007 Memorandum submitted to Chief Justice, The Hindu, Chennai, 08 Nov 2007 Govt mulls scheme to make lay-offs easier,The Business Standard, Mumbai, 03 Nov 2007 Growing assertion of Asian,The Hindu, Chennai, 22 Nov 2007
August 2007	75% of Indians are poor and vulnerable, The Times Of India, Bombay, 11 Aug 2007 Dubai's Foreign Workers Fight for Gains, Jason de Parle, The Asian Age, Bombay, 18 Aug 2007 Go West Young Folks, The Times of India, 9 Aug 2007 Now Outsiders , Peerzada Arshad Hamid, Tehalka Magazine, 18 Aug 2007 Violence again, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 17 Aug 2007 Tougher emigration laws for women, Aroonim Bhuyan, The Asian Age, Bombay, 03 Aug 2007 A Bihar away from Bihar, Oeepender Deswal, The Times Of India, Bombay, 11 Aug 2007
July 2007	Social safety net for 36 crore workers, Kay Benedict, DNA, BOMBAY, 11 JUL 2007 Less than secure, T.K.Rajalakshmi, FRONTLINE MAGAZINE, 14 JUL 2007 8 hour day for unorganised workers mooted, THE HINDU, MADRAS, 11 JUL 2007
June 2007	Balance Between Work And Family, The Hindu, Madras, 20 Jun 2007 A fifth of the world's workers,Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, Madras, 08 Jun 2007 Workers in the unorganised sector, Sandip Das, Down To Earth Magazine, 30 Jun 2007 Bengal's Death Harvest,Avijit Sinha, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 06 Jun 2007 Rs 150 Cr For Overseas Workers, Lakshmi B.Gosh, The Asian Age, Bombay, 22 Jun 2007
May 2007	Open Borders For Jobs, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 29 Apr 2007 Merchants Of Migration, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 07 May 2007 Rs 70,000 For Illegal Exit, Job Abroad Costs Lakhs, The Asian Age, Bombay, 03 May 2007
April 2007	Rethinking India Uninc, Vipul Mudgal, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 23 Apr 2007 A Ten Foot Trench, Rs 14.50, Saikat Datta, Outlook Magazine, 09 Apr 2007 In Up Villages, Migrants Are Role Models, Nitin Yeshwantrao, The Times Of India, Bombay, 23 Apr 2007 Sugar Belt With Holes In It's Core, Nitin Yeshwantrao,The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 04 Apr 2007 Tea Gardens Pushing Workers To The Brink , Prasanta Paul ,The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 18 Apr 2007
November 2006	Cyberian Folk Tales, Sugata Srinivasaraju, Outlook Magazine, 01 November 2006
October 2006	Can a slum become a world class township?, Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu Madras, 06 October 2006 'The poor should matter as well' says Ruth Manorama, K Raghu, DNA, BOMBAY, 08 OCT 2006 The battle for farmlands,The Business Standard, Bombay, 26 October 2006
September 2006	30 trapped miners die, Kumar Uttam, The Asian Age, Bombay, 08 September 2006 Swallowed by the dark pits of earth, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 08 September 2006 Death by Mining, Economic & Political Weekly Magazine, 16 September 2006 Pay more attention to mine safety,The Hindu, Madras, 13 September 2006 Forced departures, The Hindu, Madras, 17 September 2006 "Women form half migrant population", The Hindu, Madras, 07 September 2006
August 2006	Children banned from workforce, The Times of India, Bombay, 02 August 2006 Child's rights can't be ensured by a mere ban, say activists, The Asian Age, Bombay, 13 August 2006 Don't ban labour, give them schools, Sreelatha Menon, The Business Standard, Bombay, 14 August 2006 Chotu doesn't work here any more, Rita Panickar & Grey Pinto, The Indian Express, Bombay, 29 August 2006 Domestic slaves, Frontline Magazine, 11 August 2006
August 2006	India calling, Mini Joseph Tejaswi, The Times of India Bombay, 04 August 2006 200 BPO crorepatis in making, T Surendar, The Times of India, Bombay, 12 August 2006
June 2006	"Society security is a protective measure; it does not solve chronic problem", Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, Madras, 15th June 2006 A treaty for labour safety, Gopal Sutar, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 06 June 2006 Time for a global conversation about migrants, Kofi A. Annan, The Hindu, Madras, 06 June 2006
May 2006	Once again at the receiving end, Sahara Times, New Delhi, 13 May 2006 Behind the glitter, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, The Business Standard, Bombay, 13 May 2006 Labour activists to push Gulf Arabs on worker rights, The Financial Express, Bombay, 22 May 2006 Unsafe India: Workers abroad, Preeti Singh Saksena, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 15 May 2006 Latest on Govt's table is Rs 25,000-crore safety net for all 'unorganised' workers, N. Madhavan Kutty, The Indian Express, Bombay, 16 May 2006 A socially secure unorganised worker, Arjun Sengupta, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 28 May 2006 A Safety net with holes, Gautam Bhardwaj, The Indian Express, Bombay, 18 May 2006 Social security for all, The Economic Times, Bombay, 23 May 2006 Poor can retire to a pension too, Malini Goyal, The Economic Times, Bombay, 1 May 2006
April 2006	Strike called off, buses back on roads, The Indian Express, Bombay, 23rd April 2006 SBI stir ends as govt hikes pension cut-off, The Financial Express, Bombay, 10th April 2006. Hero Honda resumes production, The Financial Express, Bombay, 14th April 2006 Hero Honda terms worker's strike illegal, The Financial Express, Bombay, 14th April 2006 Labour pangs: A debate on labour reforms in India, Labonita Ghosh, DNA, Bombay, 9th April 2006 Blue-collar migration to Gulf at peak, Vaishnavi C Sekhar, The Times of India, Bombay, 17th Apri l2006 American's migrants have overcome their terror, Gary Younge, The Hindu, Madras, 18th April 2006 Indian workers join strike at Bahrain firm, The Times of India, Bombay, 21st April 2006. Govt gears up to upgrade workers' skills, Ishani Duttagupta, The Economy Times, Bombay, 24th April 2006 How to police human trafficking, Joginder Singh, The Indian Express, Bombay, 19th April 2006. Rage over U.K. work permit rules, Hasan Suroor, The Hindu, Madras, 22nd April 2006
March 2006	Protests over job scheme turn violent in France, Vaiju Naravane, The Hindu, Madras, 18th March 2006 Fearful of flexploitation, Naima Bouteldja, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 23rd March 2006 France on sunset boulevard, Dileep Padgaonkar, DNA, Bombay, 30th March 2006 France's Politicized Students - Capitalism Under Fire, William Pfaff, The International Herald Tribune, London, 30th March 2006
February 2006	Heard of centreities?, Singh Gyanant Kumar, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 15th Feb 2006 Going beyond the curriculum, The Hindu, Madras, 15th Feb 2006
January 2006	Publishers too join BPO party, Manoj Nair, The Economic Times, Bombay, 29th Jan 2006 World yet to take up India's legal process outsourcing case, The Financial Express, Bombay, 19th Jan 2006

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