The accused is on the run while the victim is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Durgapur city, officials said.

‘Women Negotiating for Family Housing & Work: A Study on Quasi-Live-in Domestic Workers’ examines the everyday lives and negotiations of a category of domestic workers, different from the mainstream, who barter work for obtaining family housing, and are referred to in the study as the ‘quasi-

Mobility is generally defined as movement from one area to another and from one sector to the other for better earnings and employment as well as other purposes.

A striking feature of economic development in India is that a major part of the country’s nonagricultural workforce and significant numbers of seasonal workers in agr

Unlike Sri Lanka, the Philippines or Indonesia, the major structuring contexts of international migration from Kerala / India do not enable the mobility of less skilled women workers, yet it has been observed that they are a prominent presence in some Middle Eastern destinations

Restrictions imposed by the Government of India on the emigration of women in ‘unskilled’ categories such as domestic work are framed as measures intended to protect women from exploitation.