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Occupational Health and safety has been an issue of serious concern of health personnel as well as the workers’ organizations. The 60th World Health Assembly held in Geneva in 2007 charted out Workers’ health: global plan of action. It recognizes that the ‘workers represent half the world’s population and are the major contributors to economic and social development. But despite the availability of effective facilities there remain large gaps between and within countries with regard to the health status of workers and their exposure to occupational risks. Only a small number of them have access to occupational health services’.

Boris Johnson’s election as Conservative leader has been greeted in Brussels with a rejection of his Brexit demands and issuing of a warning by the newly appointed European commission president Ursula von der Leyen about the “challenging times ahead”. The chances are bleak that EU leadership will mend its stance on the convoluted issue of Brexit. The situation has been simply complicated by the mess created by former UK Prime Minister Theresa May. Undeniably both sides have a “duty” to deliver a deal notwithstanding newly appointed president offering her congratulations to Johnson on his election as the prime minister of Britain.

The passage of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha amidst walk out of the opposition exposes the mentality of hunger for absolute power rather than intention of eradication of the mentality of violence in individuals. The bill aims at grabbing the power of branding an individual a ‘terrorist’ and of seizing the properties of the people and organizations which are to be labelled as such by the government in power. Nothing beyond it.

BHOPAL: It was a sixer, it was a master stroke by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, Karnataka avenged. BJP was stunned when Congress succeeded in manoeuvering two BJP legislators and showed that the party commands comfortable majority. After the result of division on a absolutely non-controversial bill, the Congress numbers touched 122 in a house of 230.

19 July 2019 marked the 50thanniversaryof bank nationalisation. At the time of nationalisation, the bitter opponents of the move were Jan Sangh’s Atal Behari Vajpayee and Swatantra Party’s Minoo Masani. Coming in that legacy, Modi and BJP cannot obviously acknowledge any positive contribution of bank nationalisation. And so, under Modi, the official discourse on banking reforms has given way to that of bank denationalisation.

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

Since the Modi 2.0 Government has come to power after 23rd May, 2019, it has been on a spree to pass legislations in the 17th parliamentary session, obviously owing to its brute majority in Lok Sabha. Most of these bills are quite contentious, including the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019, bill criminalising Triple Talaq, and Unlawful Prevention Activities (Amendment) Bill, 2019, amongst others.

Oil price can become another constraining factor for the Indian economy later in the year and upset growth calculations.

For him being identified as the protégé of Nitish Kumar is more worth than upholding political and ideological line and character of his party. Yes, this is an open secret and even a layman will endorse this. The deputy chief minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Modi has been projecting Nitish as the best friend and true protagonist for the saffron outfit.

Karnataka is the story of a beautiful dream gone sour. Over a year ago, when HD Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress came together to thwart the BJP bid to form a government as the saffron party failed to secure a majority, it was as though all the parties opposed to Modi had joined hands. The grand photograph, taken at the swearing in of Kumaraswamy as the chief minister, showed Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, Sitaram Yechury holding hands in a rare camaraderie, and it soon became the mascot of opposition unity. The optics from Bengaluru suggested imageries of a cornered Narendra Modi, with no chance of making it for a second time in 2019.