One slip : Bihari boy Pulped to death in Paper Mill

One slip : Bihari boy Pulped to death in Paper Mill

He fell on to a conveyor belt, and in seconds was turned into pulp, his shrieks of terror drowned by heavy machinery. This is no horror film, but what happened to a nineteen year old boy just yesterday. Erode, Tamil Nadu:  a young man from Bihar  was working along a conveyor belt in a private paper […]

Relief for Indian workers stranded in Saudi?

Relief for Indian workers stranded in Saudi?

Some ten thousand Indians are stranded in Saudi Arabia. General V.K. Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs, has left for Saudi Arabia, raising hopes that he may do something for them. The Indian government has confirmed that 7,700 Indian workers were affected by widespread unemployment and are in dire need of exit visas.. Minister […]

‘ 3 Dead Nepali workers arrive at KTM from Gulf every day’

‘ 3 Dead Nepali workers  arrive at KTM from Gulf every day’

Activists in Nepal  have received many complaints from across the Gulf regionof maltreatment and exploitation of workers. Sujata Upreti, an official of the Pravasi Nepali Coordination Committee (PNCC), a Kathmandu-based labour rights group representing Nepalese migrant workers, has told an Asian news agency that many had been arrested and deported because they were found outside […]