Workers in soup as MGNREGS caught in Centre-TN dispute
This cut has had a direct impact on workers' wages, with reports of payments as low as Rs 30 in some rural pockets. Ironically, many workers are...
For 1,300 days and counting, Virudhunagar cracker blast victims’ kin...
22 Jan 2025 7:00 AM ISTNearly four years since the blast and despite the National Green Tribunal’s direction to pay the victims’ kin Rs 20 lakh as compensation – an order...
Construction workers demand fairer pensions from TNCWWB
19 Jan 2025 6:00 AM ISTOfficial justifies Rs 1,200 pension saying TN has many welfare boards than other states
Bonded child labour: The dark underbelly of Chennai's thriving...
4 Dec 2024 7:00 AM ISTWhen a team of officers attached to a task force arrived at the unit last Friday following a tip-off, they found the children, alongside 30 adults, on...
Stop worrying about ruling alliance, EPS tells dist secretaries
7 Nov 2024 5:00 AM ISTChairing the meeting with district secretaries at the party headquarters, Palaniswami elaborated on things under their control and how to make use of...
Revive scheme offering jobs to inter-caste marriage couples: VCK
6 Nov 2024 7:00 AM ISTThe VCK leader urged the DMK government to revive the scheme that was shelved during the previous AIADMK regime.
Centre insensitive to migrants’ travel needs: Activists
5 Jun 2023 7:00 AM ISTMigrant labourers travelling to their hometown jostling for space inside unreserved coaches as well as reserved coaches has been a common sight for...
More chicken servings for TN jailbirds; rice kanji to be passé
3 Jun 2023 7:00 AM ISTAccording to official sources, the modifications were introduced after a comparison of the diet in TN prisons with that of other southern states.