Authorities rescued 78 bonded labourers, including 21 children, from an unregistered brick kiln in Tiruvallur district.

Less polluting methods have reduced coal use and waste while workers still struggle for more wages and better work conditions ...

We were forced to bury her outside the brick kiln,” said 27-year-old Raj at his relative’s home in Kasganj district, Uttar ...

For the people of Manikganj, the hope is straightforward: survival depends on converting kilns to environmentally friendly technologies. Without change, more agricultural land will disappear, and the ...

A decade ago, travellers on the Dhaka–Chattogram highway could see lush hill forests and fertile fields while passing through Satkania. Today, the landscape is dominated by rows of brick kilns ...

TAXILA, Sept 5: The imposition of 16 per cent General Sales Tax on bricks announced in annual budget for 2010-11 has finally led to closure of two brick kilns of the city, rendering scores of ...

In a special spring firing, the Colonial Williamsburg brickyard crew set up about 9,000 salmon bricks to bake. The under-baked and porous bricks were fired to strengthen them so they can better endure ...

A 25-year-old student from a private homoeopathic medical college in Maharashtra’s Nanded died by suicide, following which police booked a local NCP leader for alleged abetment, an official said on ...