The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has decided to present amendments to the existing legislation on child labour.

NCPA Chairman Jagath Wellawatte said the new legislation will seek to increase the legal age of child labour recruitment from 14 to 18.

Under the Petroleum Policy-2009, the government has allocated 50 percent job quota to the residents of each exploratory block for development and uplift of the area. According to official sources, employing the unskilled workers of the area, at local level both by the operator and its third party contractor has been decided.

Between India Shining and Jai Ho, through four years of high growth that India became the story of global markets, not much has changed on the ground, it would seem. Between aspirational Indians vying for better and richer lifestyles, there are millions still below the poverty line.

India trails badly on the human development indicators. Illustration: Saurabh Singh

With 663,000 more jobs disappearing from the American economy last month, swelling the total number of jobs surrendered to the recession beyond five million, the government

The summit of the Group of 20 leading high-income and emerging countries in London on Thursday seems set to achieve progress. But achievement must be measured not just against past performances, but against