New Delhi: India said yesterday that it is looking to help its expatriate workers in Kuwait who would be affected by the Gulf nation’s decision to reduce the number of its overseas workers even as 72,000 Indians have applied in neighbouring Saudi Arabia for Emergency Certificates to return home over the kingdom’s new work policy. External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said that Indian workers who had entered on a domestic worker visa but took up a job in a different category would be affected. The embassy there has issued around 8,000 Emergency Certificates to Indian workers. The Kuwait government has offered to pay for the return airfare of the workers till Mumbai. The Indian embassy will pay the Indians the remaining amount that they need to go from Mumbai till their home destination, he informed.
Country has 50 lakh child labourers
New Delhi: Fifty lakh children eke out a livelihood in the country, of whom 17.5 lakh are in Uttarakhand, according to the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). The second-largest share of child labourers comes from West Bengal (5.5 lakh), Rajasthan (4.05 lakh) and Gujarat (3.9 lakh), the NSSO estimated on the eve of the World Day against Child Labour today.
Engineer arrested for ‘raping’ woman
Gurgaon: An engineer was arrested here for allegedly raping a married woman for three years on the promise of marrying her, police said yesterday. A 27-year-old woman engineer from Madhubani in Bihar had married another engineer five years ago. They both worked in separate private firms in Udyog Vihar area here. She and her husband moved to Hyderabad a few years ago, where she got into a relationship with another engineer, Harshvardhan Aggarwal, police said. She returned to Gurgaon with Aggarwal three years ago and started living with him in Sector 31. They had a child together. In her complaint, the woman said that Aggarwal told her that he could not live with her anymore. “We have registered a case against the accused. He has been arrested and sent to jail under judicial custody,” police said. IANS
