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TopicSewage workers

Topic: Sewage workers

NHRC initiates probe into sewage workers’ deaths in Greater Noida, seeks action taken report

ThePrint Team -
The workers were killed while repairing a submersible pump to fix overflowing sewer on June 25 at the plant of a multinational IT company.

Why manual scavenging is still a problem for India in 2018 despite a slew of policies

Priyamvada Grover -
None of the laws enacted so far seems to have done its job, as hundreds of manual scavengers continue to die in pits and sewers.

Sewage worker deaths wouldn’t happen if India worked as hard on it as it did for polio

Bezwada Wilson -
Eleven sewage workers died in seven days despite manual scavenging being abolished years ago.

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Economy

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Esha Mishra -
Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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