Current Situation

Current News:

India has currently been in the news for a lot of different things. One of those things is that fact that India is having a problem with child labor. Though they have laws in place saying that children ages 6 to 14 should be in school and laws banning child labor, hundreds of kids continue to work in the horrendous working conditions. The most common industrie for these children to work in is coal mining, a severely dangerous occupation. The New York Times did a report on the industry out of Khliehriat. When there, they saw the dangerous and deadly working condition for these children. The children working in the mines would be going 70 feet into these mines with no ventilation, no prevention of explosions and only one way out. Suresh, a teen working in the mine says, “How can we not work?” he asked. “We have to eat.” India is also, like the US, having a hard time with terrorism. On February 22, 2013, two bombs were placed on bikes in the city Hyderabad. It  killed 16 people with 70 others injured. It was the largest bombing in India since 2011.