People in India are speaking out and protesting for better pay and working conditions. India’s unemployment rate rose to the highest it’s ever been in the last 45 years. So in New Delhi, workers took to the streets and marched for their rights. Ninety percent of the Indian labor force doesn’t have any security, extremely low wages, and most have… Read more »
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of workers rallied in the Indian capital to demand fair wages, job security and other benefits on Friday as the government presented its last budget before a general election. Construction workers, farm labourers and sex workers came together to demand change in a country where almost 90 percent of the labor force works… Read more »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India on Saturday said it had lodged a protest with the United States government after several Indian students were detained there in connection with their enrolment in a fake university, following an undercover operation by U.S. agents. U.S. authorities this week said eight individuals who exploited the country’s student visa system had been indicted. They had… Read more »
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s cane farmers are owed 200 billion rupees ($2.8 billion) by sugar mills in the world’s second-biggest producer of the sweetener as refined sugar prices have fallen below the cost of production, a leading trade body said on Monday.FILE PHOTO – A sweeper cleans a road in front of sugarcane displayed for sale at a wholesale market… Read more »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – In a dark alleyway no wider than arms’ length, a single ladies’ shoe is all that remains on the boarded-up doorstep of Prabhu Dhandapani, his wife and their eight-year-old daughter.A man looks on from a building at a residential area from where several people travelled illegally on a boat to New Zealand, in New Delhi, India,… Read more »