Accept Universal Validity of UDID, Not Mandatory Possession

THE National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has addressed two letters to the secretary, department of empowerment of persons with disabilities, Government of India on issues surrounding the validity of the Universal Disability ID (UDID) Card.Dated March 15, 2023 the letters are in response to an office memorandum and a DO letter issued by the department of empowerment of persons with disabilities (DEPwD), Government of India, which is the nodal department for disability affairs.

Restore Peace, End Hostility: Delegation of MPs to Tripura Governor

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×A DELEGATION of parliamentarians visited Tripura to assess the post-poll violence. Since the assembly polls in the state, goons of the ruling BJP have been perpetrating violence and targeting supporters and members of the Left parties.

The “Hindu Rate of Growth”: Then and Now

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×FOR a large part of the dirigiste period, the gross domestic product of the Indian economy grew at a rate of around 4 per cent per annum or less, which, though an improvement compared to the colonial era that had witnessed virtual stagnation, was not very impressive.

CITU Campaigns for Minimum Wages in Telangana

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE CITU in Telangana has organised an extensive campaign from February 10 to March 5 on the issues of industrial workers, mainly focusing on demands of minimum wages, seven hours a day work and five day week. It had a good effect on the workers. A dharna was held at the Labour Commissioner's office on March 6.

J&K: Farmers Protest against ‘Bulldozer Raj’

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×A KISAN protest dharna was held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on February 24, 2023 by All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Tehreek (JKKT). The dharna was organised against the forceful eviction of Jammu and Kashmir farmers using the Land Eviction Order, 2020.

Caution: Saffronisation of Doordarshan and All India Radio

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) and the Delhi Union of Journalists, in a joint statement on March 16, have expressed serious concern at the virtual capture of India’s Prasar Bharati, which runs both the Doordarshan and All India Radio, by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), through its own news agency, Hindustan Samachar.

CITU Urges Karnataka Governor to Reject Amendment to Factories Act

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×The new amendment extends working hours from nine to twelve and removes restrictions on women working late-night shifts.THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has written to the Karnataka governor Vajubhai Vala and urged him not to give his assent to the amendment to the Factories act passed by the Karnataka Assembly.If passed, the new amendments would render changes to six sections of the Factories Act 1948.

Fighting for Justice: April 5 Delhi March by Farmers, Workers & Agri Workers

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×UNDER the leadership of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), and All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU), the working classes of India, including workers, peasants, and agricultural workers, have decided to step up their ongoing struggles in response to the government's anti-farmer and anti-worker policies.A statement issued by the three organisations on March 10, mentions that a jo

WB: Sagardighi Bypolls: People’s Intent is Clear

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×AS expected, the extent of people’s discontent with the misrule of authoritarian Trinamool regime was borne out in the outcome of Sagardighi by-election, occasioned by the death of sitting minister Subrata Saha in December last year.

The US, UK and Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Deal

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE recent Australia, US and UK 368 billion dollar deal on buying nuclear submarines has been termed by Paul Keating, a former Australian PM, as the worst deal in all history. It commits Australia to buy conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines which will be delivered earliest in the 2040s. These will be based on new nuclear reactor designs yet to be developed by UK.

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