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The Missing Clause: Climate in India’s Labour Codes

India’s four new labour codes came into effect in November 2025, and the rules to run them were notified in May 20...

Street vendors are the low-hanging fruits in the battle against plastic

Single-use plastic ban vilified street vendors and small players, but conveniently missed the real villains: the produc...

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In Nagaland, Despite An Act To Protect Street Vendors, Women Vendors Struggle For Basic Amenities

The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 aims to protect livelihood righ...

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Random Reflections- Cheating the Street Vendors and the Public- The Finance Ministers way

Remember the Atma Nirbhar – TV Show of Mrs. Nirmala Sitaraman and Mr. Anurag Thakur? After that, both have disappeared ...

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International Finance Institutions and their Impact on People

Shaktiman Ghosh, National General Secretary of the National Hawkers Federation, on the IFIs and their Impact on People ...

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October 2, 2026

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The Missing Clause: Climate in India’s Labour Codes

India’s four new labour codes came into effect in November 2025, and the rules to run them were notified in May 2026. They were meant to make labour law simpler and wider in reach. But they do not mention climate change even once, though the last eleven years have been the warmest on record. T...

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March 8, 2025

Anirban Bhattacharya

Street vendors are the low-hanging fruits in the battle against plastic

Single-use plastic ban vilified street vendors and small players, but conveniently missed the real villains: the producers and users of plastic – petrochemicals companies, plastic producers, and FMCG companies – who choose to make plastic polymers and use plastic packaging. There appears to be a...

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December 16, 2022

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

In Nagaland, Despite An Act To Protect Street Vendors, Women Vendors Struggle For Basic Amenities

The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 aims to protect livelihood rights and social security of street vendors but its implementation has been sluggish, putting street vendors at risk. Every morning, 42-year-old Loni Yalie neatly places vegetables, f...

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August 25, 2020

Thomas Franco

Random Reflections- Cheating the Street Vendors and the Public- The Finance Ministers way

Remember the Atma Nirbhar – TV Show of Mrs. Nirmala Sitaraman and Mr. Anurag Thakur? After that, both have disappeared for long. May be rehearsing for the next show. Mr. S.Gurumurthy has announced that more will come in September. Let’s wait and see. Suddenly there was speculation that Mr. K.V.Kama...

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