Post-graduates from technical institutes like IITs, who were recruited as faculty for the Ministry of Education’s Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) are not being absorbed as faculty at the conclusion of the project.
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Around 6,000 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) in Delhi have not been paid monthly incentives since April 2021. The incentives are due to them for visiting COVID-19 patients under home isolation and for carrying out surveys in containment zones.
Continue readingOn August 15, 2021, Taliban forces entered Kabul city and took over the Presidential palace. A few hours earlier, President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country, with American assistance. The three lakh strong Afghan army, financed and trained by the US, disintegrated without a fight. These events mark the final collapse of the US backed puppet regime in Kabul. It brings to an end the nearly 20-year long US imperialist occupation of Afghanistan.
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Thousands of farmers of the Doaba region in Punjab have been on agitation since August 20, against mounting dues of the sugarcane mills and low state advisory prices (SAP) — the price the sugarcane mill owners are supposed to the sugarcane farmers for their produce.
Continue readingExcerpts of the interview of MEL with Com Sunil Kumar P. (SKP), Secretary General, All India Station Masters Association (AISMA).
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On 17th August 2021, loco drivers and their families including children staged a demonstration, under the banner of All India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA), in front of the Bilaspur Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) office. The DRM of Bilaspur did not even allow the drivers to set up tents for the demonstration. The driver and their families protested this by raising slogans. They had to stage their protest under a tree.
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Demonstration in Bilaspur On 10th August 2021, the members of the All-India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA) organized a protest over their 17-point demands. These protests were organized in about 650 lobbies of 16 zones of railways across the country. Despite the demonstration being declared illegal by the railway administration,
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On 9th August 2021, a protest demonstration was organized in the call of central trade unions at Ghari check in Ambikapur in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh.
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On August 15, the 74th anniversary of India’s independence from colonial rule, kisan organisations organised rallies all over the country.
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Over a thousand people participated in a militant rally in London, UK on August 15th 2021. The protest rally was organised to express the support of Indian workers and students in the UK to the kisan andolan in India. Indian Workers Association (GB) was amongst many organisations participating in the protest rally. The protestors gathered outside the Indian High Commission in London.
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