Union opposes online payment of wages to handloom weavers

Union opposes online payment of wages to handloom weavers

The AITUC Tamil Nadu Handloom Weaving Workers’ Federation opposed the disbursement of wages to weavers through digital mode. In a resolution passed at the State-level meeting held at Kumbakonam on Saturday, the federation claimed that disbursement of wages through banks would cause immense inconvenience to weavers and therefore cash disbursement should be continued. It demanded … Read more

AIADMK opposes collection of fees from students for summer coaching camps in Tamil Nadu

AIADMK opposes collection of fees from students for summer coaching camps in Tamil Nadu

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami. File | Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday, April 28, 2024 opposed the reported decision of the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDATN) to collect fees from government school students for the summer coaching camps that are scheduled to commence from … Read more

ED opposes bail plea of accused in Karuvannur case

ED opposes bail plea of accused in Karuvannur case

Private moneylender P. Satheesh Kumar, also an accused in the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank fraud case, was the benami of several prominent political leaders and police officers, according to the Enforcement Directorate (ED). M.J. Satheesh, the standing counsel for the agency, read out the statements of K.A. Jijor, a witness in the case, to this … Read more

Farmers’ body opposes release of water to T.N.; seeks release of water to irrigation canals

Farmers’ body opposes release of water to T.N.; seeks release of water to irrigation canals

President of Federation of Karnataka Farmers’ Associations Kurubur Shanthakumar (second from left) addressing reporters in Mysuru on Sunday. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram Opposing the release of water from reservoirs in the Cauvery basin to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, the Federation of Karnataka State Farmers’ Association president Kurubur Shanthakumar has urged the State government to instead … Read more

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | U.P. Govt opposes bail plea of Ashish Mishra in Supreme Court

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | U.P. Govt opposes bail plea of Ashish Mishra in Supreme Court

Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Misra’s son Ashish Mishra (centre) and other accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, being produced in a court in Lakhimpur. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Uttar Pradesh Government on January 19 opposed in the Supreme Court the bail plea of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son, … Read more