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Sunday, January 25, 2026
TopicCheap labour

Topic: cheap labour

Meta to face lawsuit over claims of cheaper foreign labour preferences

US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco says 3 US citizens, who accused Meta of refusing to hire them though they were qualified, may pursue a proposed class action.

Life in India is easier than in Canada—because they respect their labour and we don’t

A woman recently posted a video about how ‘difficult’ life in Canada was – she had to print labels for her return parcels and drop them off herself, unlike in India.

Blinkit-like approach to reduce cost hurting economy and workers. Innovate, increase revenue

Investing in more capital than in employing labour can work in most countries. But India can't blindly emulate developed economies and reduce the amount of labour employed.

India innovates in labour. It doesn’t need the pressure to spend huge on R&D like US, Japan

India has cheap labour while conventionally R&D-intensive countries have cheaper capital. The whole debate on R&D needs to be recast to fit the realities here.

50 million slaves still exist but prompt action needs reliable data

The UN’s 2022 global estimate only surveyed 75 out of 118 countries on forced labour.

Behind the closet

Rising prosperity has not changed attitudes, it has merely enabled us to exploit cheap labour as 'domestics'.

On Camera

What Indira Gandhi said in her first speech as PM, 60 years ago

On 26 January 1966, Indira Gandhi delivered a speech that was broadcast over All India Radio. This was her first address to the nation after becoming India’s first woman prime minister.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

US officially calls China ‘second most powerful country’, new strategy softens stand against Beijing, Moscow

New defence strategy marks clear break from Biden-era Pentagon policy, softening tone on China & Russia, while pushing allies to shoulder more responsibility with less US backing.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.