Child Labor Rising Sharply in India’s Cities, Report Says

Urban India is employing an increasing number of children – many under 9 years old – in producing everything from pickles to fireworks, working in tourism and laboring on building sites, a U.N. children’s agency report and campaigners said. The State of Child Workers in India report by UNICEF, based on the latest Indian census data, says the proportion of child workers in the 5-to-9-year age group jumped to 24.8 percent in 2011 from 14.6 percent in 2001.

Indian IT companies worried over Trump’s new visa plans

Indian experts say concerns are mounting that India’s software industry will take a hit as the United States looks at tightening visa rules for skilled foreign workers. This AFP photo taken on March 3, 2012 shows Indian labourers walk past the Meenakshi technology park at HITECH City , or Cyberabad, a major technology township at the centre of the information technology industry in Hyderabad.

Five killed, many trapped in Indian coal mine collapse – police

BHUBANESWAR, India: At least five Indian miners were killed and nearly two dozen trapped when mine waste collapsed at a mine run by state-owned Coal India Limited, police said on Friday. Several vehicles working at the mine were also trapped in the accident in Jharkhand state on Thursday evening at the Lalmatia mines owned by Eastern Coalfields Limited , a subsidiary of the world’s largest miner.