PAWAN BALI

Around 29 people have died in mining operations of Coal India Limited (CIL) in the last six months, exposing how the workers' lives are at risk while working for the PSU.

New Delhi, Oct. 25 The Vice-President, Mr M. Hamid Ansari, has said that while the Indian mining industry has achieved phenomenal progress in production and productivity, accidents are also occurring.

Smoke billows out of cracks in Bokapahari in this file picture of Jharia

Dhanbad, Sept. 24: Concerned over the underground fire that is threatening to singe the Jharia township, social organisations here are mulling an agitation if steps to control the blaze are not taken without delay.

TIRUCHI: The zonal and state level mine safety awards, for the best mines and best employees of mines in various trades, would be presented during the valediction of the Mine Safety Week here this weekend.

BHUBANESWAR: For the first time in India, Orissa will become the only state to have a rehabilitation centre for industrial workers, who met with accidents while disbursing their duties.

Earlier, the industrial workers were subjected only to a monetary benefit scheme following a mishap, but no other way to help them to start a new life after their recovery.

Sukh Ram strips to his bare minimum and slithers into a stinky manhole as traffic whizzes above him. With no masks to protect against odious fumes, no protective gloves and a primitive spade as a tool, his job is to clean a choked drain of muck so that it does not overflow when monsoon hits the city.

They Work In Harsh Conditions Without healthcare facilities
Aruna Raghuram | TNN

Ahmedabad: They may be the salt of the earth, but in Kutch they live in deplorable conditions. For one, good health seems unattainable for women salt workers, or agariyas.

Firecracker factory was operating illegally an explosion in a firecracker factory in Maharashtra

Sangeetha Neeraja

AN UNOFFICIAL BAN ON EXPLOSIVES DURING POLLS HAS SEVERELY AFFECTED THEIR LIVELIHOOD
THE life of a quarry worker is hardly an enviable one, consisting, as it does, of hours of hard grinding labour under the scorching sun. And the election season has only made things worse for them.