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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicChild labour

Topic: Child labour

‘Tactical thaw’ likely in India-China ties & how spiritual event turned into deadly Hathras stampede

Global media also explores how India is fostering a wedding industry that has led to Indians spending nearly twice as much on weddings as education, on an average.

MP’s Som distillery made child labourers work 11 hours a day, says govt report

Last month, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights found 58 children working illegally at factory following which police are probing the use of child labour at distillery.

58 children rescued from MP distillery, say photos of shriveled hands ‘misleading’, fear ‘losing jobs’

NCPCR chairperson had inspected premises of liquor factory in Raisen & posted a photo of a child's hands with shriveled skin. District collector says medical exam is underway & probe is on.

Informal jobs, child labour & press freedom rank — what global media says can hinder India’s growth

International voices discuss 'crackdown' on journalists, shortage of quality jobs & 'rising inequality' but also how hedge funds are profiting from India's booming options market.

US court convicts Indian-American couple of coercing minor into forced labour

US attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia said Singh and Kaur allegedly confiscated minor's immigration documents & subjected him to physical abuse.

Children selling flowers on the street aren’t atmanirbhar. They are poor and not in school

Khushbu Sundar was inspired by how a girl child was earning money to put food on the table—because the girl was selling flowers while singing Narendra Modi’s praises.

‘Beatings, burns & confinement’: Parents of Dwarka domestic help narrate 10-year-old’s trauma

10-yr-old rescued from employers’ house with swollen eyes & wounds is one of many victims of child labour & abuse. Parents say don't want money, were told she'd 'have a good life'.

Jharkhand girls leave home for English, movies, city life. Then they face India’s urban rich

Police search trains at Ranchi station for young girls. But their hands are tied. 'If we verify they are going with their parents’ consent, then we have no mandate to stop them.'

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.

In Chitvan Gill’s frames, there are stories—of child labour, suffering and pandemic

What stands out in Gill’s work is the sense of humanity with which she treats her subjects—the children and their families.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.