Image used for representation Two women workers were charred to death on Saturday (November 1, 2025) night after a massive fire broke out at a warehouse where thinner and other flammable chemicals were stored, police said. The incident took place when lamps were being lit on the occasion of Devuthani Ekadashi, and the owner of … Read more
The controversy over H-1B visas has spilled from Silicon Valley into Wall Street. James Fishback, CEO of Azoria Capital, has accused regulators and financial trustees of targeting his company’s flagship fund after he spoke out against corporations that replace American workers with foreign labour. Fishback alleges that his statement — vowing not to invest in … Read more
Representative image. File | Photo Credit: PTI Workers of a tea garden in north Bengal staged protests demanding a bonus ahead of Durga Puja. The protests were held by workers of the Nagaisuri tea garden in Jalpaiguri district on September 26 and 27, who sought 20% of their wages as bonus. Police resorted to a … Read more
Two ambulance workers have been arrested over the deaths of six adults, police have said. The investigation was launched in 2023 and last year a man in his 30s, from West Wiltshire, was arrested on suspicion of six counts of gross negligence manslaughter and four counts of ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a care worker. … Read more
Rahul Chakradhari is a pharmacist and a permanent employee at a Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Rasela, a village in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district close to the Odisha border. However, the current circumstances have forced him to go beyond the scope of his duties. He isn’t just dispensing medicines; he is also prescribing them in some … Read more
Three workers were killed following a suspected gas leak at a factory in Pithampur industrial area in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, officials said on Monday, adding that a magisterial probe has been ordered into the incident. According to officials, the incident took place on Sunday night during the cleaning of a chemical tank at the … Read more
Passengers seen at Basaveshwaranagar in Bengaluru on August 5, 2025 | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Employees of Karnataka’s State-owned transport Corporations began an indefinite strike on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) morning, severely affecting public bus services across the State and leaving passengers in the lurch. The unions went ahead with the strike despite a court … Read more
Mumbai: AI solution provider company Qure.ai has introduced AIRA, an AI-powered co-pilot tool for frontline healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) at the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva this week. The company states that community health workers spend over 40 per cent of their time on manual data collection, yet many countries … Read more
Anganwadi workers and assistants stage a protest in front of the Thoothukudi Collectorate on Friday | Photo Credit: N. Rajesh The distribution of supplementary nutrition to children was disrupted in parts of Tamil Nadu on Friday (May 2, 2025) as members of the Anganwadi Workers and Assistants Association staged sit-in protests. Social Welfare and Women Empowerment … Read more
Male health workers should be allowed to perform breast screening examinations to help relieve staff shortages, say experts. X-rays called mammograms are offered to women between the age of 50 and 71 every three years to check for signs of cancer, but can currently only be performed by female staff. The Society of Radiographers (SoR) … Read more