Friday, December 17, 2021

To make matters worse, when 4,500 of these workers went on strike for 13 days from November 27 to December 14, the administration refused to recognise them as their employees and chided them for creating a nuisance. Adding insult to injury, they were forcefully evicted from the strike spot on December 10, international Human Rights Day, on the eve of the TTD board meeting on December 11.

 https://thewire.in/labour/workers-at-tirumala-tirupati-devasthanam-allege-underpayment-mistreatment

Monday, December 6, 2021

 

The farmers say while there was a big hue and cry after the prices of tomatoes increased, nobody had bothered about their plight in the past, when there was a glut and produce had to be dumped for want of buyers.

 https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/tomato-price-rise-farmers-in-andhra-say-that-is-only-part-of-the-whole-story-80540