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Press Release : 28 April 2009 : Bangalore
Bangalore Metro being built by Bonded Children
Child Helpline takes a child into their protective custody
His frail limbs are best meant to wield the willow in his school in a village in West Bengal, not the heavy hammer at the site of Bangalore Metro. But that is one of the many hazardous operations Jabbar (not his real name), a boy no more than 13 years of age, has been engaged in. Question him of his age and pat he will reply in broken Hindi (…)

pudr.org
In 1982, the Asian Games were held in India in Delhi. At that time, PUDR had conducted a survey of Asiad’s construction sites and found gross violations of several labour laws. On the basis of these findings, a letter was written to Justice P.N. Bhagwati, the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who accepted the locus standi of PUDR in the matter, heard the case as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and gave a historic judgment in favour of the Asiad workers. Now, more than (…)

It has been more than one and half years that the great Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti based in Ajmer, Rajasthan, which is equally revered by the Hindus and Muslims, reached headlines for unforeseen reasons. On 12 th October 2008 it witnessed a bomb blast which saw deaths of two innocents and injuries to many. In fact it was for the first time in its few centuries old history that blood of innocents lied splattered in those areas where thousands and thousands of people use to gather (…)

The Asian Age April 30, 2009
First SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), then the bird flu, now the swine flu. Curious new respiratory tract infections seem to be popping up every now and then, killing people swiftly, creating worldwide panic. This week the swine flu, which has already killed about 150 in Mexico and infected scores in several countries, seems poised to turn into a global pandemic. Sadly, as individual countries spring gallantly to protect their own citizens, the world (…)