Birender Yadav's installation at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale poignantly portrays the struggles of Mirzapur's brick kiln ...

LAHORE: Bonded labour has a sordid history in Punjab’s brick kiln industry. Even though bonded labour was declared illegal 24 years ago, the practice remains impervious to most reform initiatives that ...

Winter season is over and with it the outcry regarding smog and the failure of the government to effectively tackle it. Understandably, with an ongoing global pandemic this is the last of the ...

For these Cambodian workers, every brick they make is a step towards freedom from a lifetime of debt. Some NGO’s call this kind of “debt bondage” a modern form of slavery. They’re learning at a first ...

A video clip from a CCTV news program on June 10 shows that Chinese police rescue dozens of workers from a brick kiln in Ruicheng, North China's Shanxi Province. The workers were forced to work about ...

NEW DELHI: Ramcharan Varma, 48, his wife Sunila Devi, their four sons and a daughter made 4,000 bricks every day. The family got around `500 for every 1,000 bricks. The lockdown then happened, leaving ...

THIS is apropos the article ‘Clearing the air: the Indo-Pak battle to breath’ (April 25) which discussed three topics — crop burning, brick kiln industry and Indus Waters Treaty — in relation to their ...

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Researchers in Bangladesh are developing new building materials to mitigate the environmental damage caused by brick manufacturing. The country produces 25 billion ...

COIMBATORE: A draft report prepared by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board with The Energy and Resources Institute, New ...

General secretary, Shamli Brick Nirman Samiti, Sunil Goel said that India had more than 1.5 lakh brick kilns which included over 21,000 from Uttar Pradesh. He said all kilns would stop manufacturing ...

Cropland is losing its fertility as the topsoil of triple-crop agricultural land in Fulbari union under Sariakandi upazila of ...