the notification of the draconian Essential Services Maintenance Act 2011, virtually imposing a total ban on the right to strike following the presidential assent to the bill passed by the Maharashtra legislature.
the notification of the draconian Essential Services Maintenance Act 2011, virtually imposing a total ban on the right to strike following the presidential assent to the bill passed by the Maharashtra legislature.
Lahore, August 10: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm and a strong sense of outrage at the continued exodus of religious minority communities from Sindh and Balochistan and said that the state has consistently failed to allay the concerns of these communities despite repeated reminders by the civil society.
Farooq Haider Maududi, son of the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan in a scathing interview says that his father founded a fascist party and he thinks states based on a religious ideology are always oppressive.
India’s first great automobile success story, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), has plunged into notoriety. Its factory at Manesar in Haryana witnessed terrible violence on July 18, which led to the death of a manager and injuries to over 100 people. The violence must be condemned, strongly and unequivocally. The MSIL management has imposed a lockout and is demonising its workers as criminally irresponsible and violence-prone. It wants to sack about a third of the 1,000 permanent workers and half the 2,000 contract workers. It has mounted enormous pressure on the government to arrest as many workers as possible and guarantee industrial peace, failing which it could pull out of Haryana.
[In India] authorities aggressively pursue targets, especially for female sterilization, by threatening health workers with salary cuts or dismissals. As a result, some health workers pressure women to undergo sterilization without providing sufficient information, either about possible complications, its irreversibility, or safer sex practices after the procedure.
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