Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that there would be an interim hike of 15 per cent in the daily wages of tea estate workers in north Bengal at a time plantations were witnessing demonstrations ...
By Avijit Sinha and Anirban Choudhury
in Siliguri/Alipurduar
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Sir — One of the biggest casualties of these testing times has been human relationships. Statistics show that forced togetherness induced by lockdowns deepened pre-existing fault l...
It beggars belief that India lost more lives to suicide in 2020 than to Covid-19. Yet this is exactly what the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau reveal. Suicides in India increased by...
Vivek Dutta, a resident of Kumhri village and son of a daily wage labourer, secured first position in the state in Jharkhand Academic Council Matriculation examination.
Vivek, a student of Upgraded H...
Many actors and technicians are teetering on the brink of penury because of the prolonged suspension of shooting brought about by the Covid-19 curbs.
Any such stoppage of work on the floors of Tollyg...
A large number of people, including construction workers, street vendors, rickshaw pullers, road side restaurant staff who are deprived of ration cards are facing the double blow of loss of income due...
Hours before the announcement of dates for the Bengal assembly polls, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said her government has increased the daily wages of labourers working under the state...
A daily wage earner from Sinidih in Katras died when he drowned into an abandoned coal mine pit. His body was recovered on Thursday at around 1 pm, 24 hours after the accident on Wednesday.
A group o...
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi has triggered a farmer revolt with his new farm laws, a general sense of frustration at his policies and failed promises has attracted a wider segment of the poor to th...