Tag: MIgrants
The Cost of ignoring refugees, the Messenia boat disaster
On 14 June 2023, a fishing boat, called the Andrianna, carrying over 750 refugees sank in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Pylos,...
Bengaluru’s Sanitation Workers Say No to the System’s Scraps
Bengaluru, India: Travel a few miles south of the upmarket enclave of Whitefield (home to the offices of Dell, IBM and Cisco) and you’ll find...
NGO Launches Free Ambulance Service In Memory of Gauri Lankesh
In the memory of noted journalist Gauri Lankesh, the Karnataka Chapter of Akhil Bharata Shramik Kendra, a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) has launched a free...
“Even after living here for decades we cannot call it home!”-Migrant...
What unites the city's domestic workers, security guards, drivers, garment makers, construction workers and app-based service workers? One way of looking at it would...
Migrant Worker Beaten to Death at a Badminton Academy in Gurgaon
A migrant worker, on Monday, was beaten to death by men from a higher economic class at Heritage Badminton Academy at Gurgaon Sector 37,...
NRIs to soon get postal ballot voting, what about migrants?
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is going to great lengths to ensure that Non-Resident Indians (NRI) are able to cast their votes by...
Citizens and the Sovereign: Reflections on a long due Humanitarian Crisis
On 24th March 2020, Prime Minister Narender Modi announced a nation-wide lockdown that left the country’s citizens in immense distress. People were left with...
Chandrashekhar Azad’s Party to Contest Elections in Bihar: Bhim Army Chief
Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad recently announced that his party, the Azad Samaj Party, will contest Vidhan Sabha elections in Bihar this year, and...
Alarming Pattern of ‘Contempt’ for Activists and their Advocates
In light of the recent contempt proceedings initiated against Advocate Prashant Bhushan by the Supreme Court for his tweets on the CJI, many former...
Indian Railways Earns Rs 429 Crores through Shramik Special Trains
An RTI query by activist Ajay Bose has revealed that Indian Railways earned Rs 428 Crore till Juner 29th 'Shramik Special Trains' during the...