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AITUC (All India Trade Union Congress) has called for massive movement opposing the state government’s decision to increase the daily working hours of workers from 8 to 10 hours and to allow women to work during night shifts. In the AITUC State Council meeting, this decision of the Govt was strongly opposed, and the organization demanded its immediate withdrawal. It was stated that the government, by amending the 1948 Factories Act, has increased the daily working hours from 8 to 10 under the influence of industrialists for their own benefit. Similarly, under the 1956 Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, employers were prohibited from engaging women in night shifts. However, in the present situation—when women face increasing insecurity in public life—the BJP government’s move to...

La Marx International On October 9, delegates from the Israeli government and the Palestinian militias Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, meeting in Egypt, agreed to a ceasefire, the "first phase" of which involves an exchange of hostages, the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to a temporary stop, and the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Under the agreement, Israel must release 250 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment and 1,700 captured Palestinians, while the Palestinian militias would hand over 20 captured Israelis and any bodies they could recover. The precarious and fragile agreement represents a humiliating defeat for Netanyahu and his government, which failed to achieve...

Protesters waved Palestinian flags and placards labelling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “genocidal war criminal” and calling for the “abolition of the Zionist state.” A group of Hong Kong activists marched in Tsim Sha Tsui on Tuesday to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza and to call for a ceasefire, marking two years since the latest conflict in the Palestinian territory began. Protesters, including Yu Wai-pan, a former member of the League of Social Democrats (front left), hold a pro-Palestinian rally in Tsim Sha Tsui on October 7, 2025. Photo: James Lee/HKFP. The five activists began at the Kowloon Mosque in Tsim Sha Tsui and marched along Nathan Road, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, before arriving at the harbourfront, shouting slogans, “Stop the genocide,” “Fr...