Day: November 4, 2010
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Condition of Agarbatti Workers in Bangalore
The incense stick (or popularly known as Agarbatti in India) used in every devout Hindu households for religious purposes, is today a highly marketed commodity both in India & abroad. But not much thought seems to have gone into how these agarbattis are produced or manufactured. With limited infrastructure such as a wooden board, availability…
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Garment Industry :Special Exploitation Zone
The garment industry in Bangalore with about 1200 registered units employing over a half a million workforce and one of the biggest sources of exports in the country, but hardly is there any mention in the media on the living and working conditions of the workers who are the real makers of some of the …
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Anti-Biotic Superbug Scandal: People’s Misery is Capitalists Profit
The recent news (11th August,2010) on a study published by Lancet Infectious Diseases (“Emergence of a new antibiotic resistant mechanism in India, Pakistan and the UK: a molecular, biological and epidemiological study” by Karthikeyan K Krishnasamy et.al) on a drug resistant bacterial gene, the so called super bug, named New Delhi metallo – beta –…