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Hitching rides on trucks, highway pit stops in the heat — migrants continue their walk home

As the lockdown continues and Covid pandemic remains a concern, migrants are still leaving cities to be home with their families in villages in UP and Bihar.

It’s back to work for these migrants who, after walking barefoot, finally made it home to UP

Migrant workers, who managed to reach home after walking from cities, quarantined themselves for 14 days before setting out to find work again.

What a Friday Iftar looks like at a Delhi Rohingya refugee camp during lockdown

Refugees at a Rohingya camp in Delhi said they have to rely on fruit carts during lockdown, making this year's Ramzan an expensive, and nearly unaffordable affair.

As first batch of migrants leaves Delhi for MP, some are left behind for want of a pass

ThePrint chronicles the departure of the first batch of stranded migrants from New Delhi railway station for Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh.

Highways are now paths for buffaloes, migrants cycling back home as lockdown continues

More than 40 days into the lockdown, ThePrint's journalists capture snapshots from across UP as migrants still make their way home.

Covid spike, 70% hike, long queues — but nothing can keep Delhi away from booze

ThePrint's photojournalist Manisha Mondal captures three days of chaos and zero social distancing since liquor stores in New Delhi opened up after the lockdown.

Smiles behind masks, orderly lines, social distancing as stranded migrants arrive home

ThePrint's photographers capture moments of students, workers and families arriving in their home states of Bihar and West Bengal via special trains.

Recovering from Covid has felt like escaping death for this 85-year-old in Vadodara

After several difficult days, Shardaben says she and her son have one more test to pass before doctors give them a clean bill of health.

What words can’t say — pregnant, and in quarantine, this nurse can only wait for now

This young nurse in Vadodara is asymptomatic and feels fine. Not knowing the effect of the virus on her unborn child has been harder for her to deal with.

3 meals, Ramayan on TV, and a long wait to go home: Life inside a Delhi quarantine centre

Migrant labourers and patients from AIIMS and Safdarjung hospital are waiting out the lockdown at this quarantine centre where 3 meals and a roof is welcome, but painfully so.

On Camera

India’s labour policy left it unable to compete with other eastern economies: Nani A Palkhivala

Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.