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Rahul Gandhi on Sunday flagged the plight of loco pilots and asserted that the INDIA bloc will raise its voice in Parliament to improve their rights and working conditions. Gandhi's remarks on X came as he posted a video of his recent interaction with loco pilots at the New Delhi Railway Station. «In Narendra Modi's government, the train of the life of loco pilots has been completely derailed,» the former Congress chief said. He said loco pilots are forced to work 16 hours a day sitting in cabins boiling with heat.

Republican officials in Montana are pressing the state Supreme Court to overturn a landmark climate ruling in a lawsuit brought by young environmentalists

NHRC has issued notices to the chief secretaries and the police chief of all the states and union territories over reports that women are allegedly being forced into sex trade by anti-social elements on the pretext of providing them with lucrative job opportunities. In a statement on Friday, the National Human Rights Commission observed the content of a news report quoting statements by women arrested during a raid, if true, raises a serious concern relating to the life, liberty, equality and dignity of women, irrespective of caste, religion and geographical boundaries. «The media report, carried on July 1, indicates that most of the arrested women during a raid at a hotel in Ranchi, Jharkhand, got into sex trade out of compulsion and helplessness. Many of them were pushed into this web by their relatives and some of them were forced to enter into this ugly business to fulfil the needs of their families and could not come out of the vicious network of anti-social elements once got into their grip,» it said. The news report indicates that the victim women are natives of different places, «trapped in the name of a job» and their handlers are reportedly operating from distant locations. This indicates the «depth of the crime syndicate» across the country, which requires a pan-India action against such criminal elements, the statement said.

Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colours, pile up on a workroom floor. Jacket sleeves, collars and brand labels protrude from the stacks as workers feed the garments into shredding machines. It’s the first stage of a new life for the textiles, part of a recycling effort at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of the largest cotton recycling plants in China. Textile waste is an urgent global problem, with only 12% recycled worldwide, according to fashion sustainability nonprofit Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Even less — only 1% — are castoff clothes recycled into new garments; the majority is used for low-value items like insulation or mattress stuffing.

French President Emmanuel Macron has refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him to remain temporarily as the head of the government after chaotic election results left the government in limbo

The open sewer runs straight for 10 kilometres. In a gorge about 8 metres deep and 50 metres wide, with sides sloping such that 20 metres of its width in the middle is flat. The 6-metre-wide sewer is in the middle of this flat stretch.

jazz LPs that my father played — but when I started hanging out with fellows a little older than me, the compact music cassettes that they played in their dens. It was a transactional thing. I was still in school. They were already in college. As the youngest in the group, I had a price to pay for being allowed to be around. It was a task, really. I was given a pencil and a bunch of cassettes and my task was simple: I had to spin each cassette like a Buddhist prayer wheel till they got fully rewound and ready to play. No one wanted to waste their sessions rewinding cassettes on the tape deck. Hence, the deployment of a slave.

Taylor Swift is one gem of a singer, and most importantly, a strategical thinker. As her Eras Tour 2024 plans kicked off a few months back, she is now continuing with her latest leg of her Eras Tour. She has been busy with the Europe leg of her Eras Tour shows since May and will now be proceeding towards US and Canada this fall. Swifties in US are eagerly waiting for her shows this year as major part of her year has been spent in European cities, especially Paris.

zhengbao for short). The total number of Chinese police officers is not made public, but is thought to be over 2m. Drawing on provincial, municipal and county yearbooks and publications, Mr Pei estimates that 3-5% of all police work for the zhengbao at the national and local level.

French voters have propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections and plunged the country into political uncertainty

As the tax filing deadline of 31 July looms, individuals and small business entities rush to navigate the income tax website to choose the right ITR form.

Marko Kolanovic has had a 19-year career at JPMorgan predicting movements in global markets, and during that career he's got many things right. More recently, though, he's got quite a few things wrong. Kolanovic's apparently involuntary exit today from his job as chief global market strategist, and his replacement by his junior, is a sharp reminder that if MDs don't jump the hoops, they will be out. 

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Quest Diagnostics, Southwest Airlines rise; Simulations Plus falls

Ajay Vora, Executive V-P & Head-Equities, Nuvama Asset Management, says they are playing two broad themes. On the consumption side, both at the domestic level as well as the exporters to the overseas market of the household goods looks interesting. Within domestic also, the consumption should ideally now pick up because if you look at segments like apparel, vacations, and the whole hospitality segment – I sense that demand is still very robust over there. They are also playing the infra theme through cement as a sector because we believe that with the consolidation happening there will be a decent price discipline which will result in higher profitability going forward. How are you dissecting the market construct because the kind of move that one has seen since the election results have been parabolic and now you have another event, the budget in just about two weeks. Ajay Vora: Broadly, we have been constructive on the markets throughout last year. Although there were some hiccups in between, I think till the time the earnings growth profile was pretty strong, I think that there is very little downside to the markets and that is why from the election outcome day also we have seen a very sharp rally from the lows.

Som Distilleries at Sehatganj village in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh. He calls his work “pauwa jamana”— setting the bottles upright so that alcohol falls into them. He did that for nine hours a day. Wearing jeans and tee shirt, Vineet sits with a slight stoop at his home. He says he dropped out of school. Instead of going to class, the thin boy would reach the distillery at 8 am and work till 5 pm. After a long day of strenuous, hazardous work, he would go home with Rs 350. He saw the hands of his friends had turned white, the skin had peeled. “It could have been the chemicals,” he says. He worked there only for a fortnight. Before he had to spend more days in that reeking plant, before his hands too got scalded, he was rescued. On June 15, a team of officials of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a nonprofit founded by Kailash Satyarthi, rescued 59 children—39 boys and 20 girls—from the distillery, in the biggest busting of child labour racket in the liquor industry in the past several years. About 40 other children “escaped” during the raid, according to officials at the rescue operation.

Arvind Kejriwal, arrested in Delhi excise scam cases, seeking additional virtual meetings with his lawyers. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna granted the prison authorities five days to file a reply and listed the matter for argument on July 15. Kejriwal has challenged a trial court's July 1 order rejecting his application for directions to the prison authorities to grant him two additional meetings in a week with his lawyers through video conference. At present, the jailed Aam Aadmi Party national convener is allowed two meetings with his lawyers per week.

Leaders across Europe have reacted with relief mixed with concern to the result of the French legislative election

It looks like loyalty is dead in the wealth advisory space, as a significant portion of financial advisors in the US are contemplating a change in their employment, according to the JD Power 2024 US Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Indian cricket was confirmed on Tuesday evening (July 9) when Jay Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), announced that Gautam Gambhir would be the next head coach of the senior men’s team. Gambhir’s appointment is an expected one, an obvious one even, but oddly, also a slightly left-field choice. It was expected in that he was the preferred candidate of the powers that be. It was obvious in that he had relinquished his position as a member of parliament and simultaneously succeeded in guiding his IPL team to a trophy. It’s left field because Gambhir has no previous coaching experience whatsoever. Gambhir has not coached a state team in the Ranji Trophy, he has not worked with a zonal or national age-group team and even in the IPL. He has been a mentor and a director of cricket of sorts rather than a hands-on coach. In the IPL, Gambhir has had a phalanx of coaches under him to run day-to-day operations while he focussed on the bigger picture.

British voters are picking a new government in a parliamentary election Thursday that is widely expected to bring the opposition Labour Party to power

Global software giant Microsoft Corp. will pay $14.4 million in California to settle allegations that it discriminated against employees who took protected leave from work