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Topic: Migrant labour

TN cops apprehend 17-yr-olds who attacked migrant worker with sickles; accused are school dropouts

A dispute on a Chennai-Tiruttani suburban train led to 4 17-year-old boys attacking a 20-year-old labourer from Odisha with sickles. The boys filmed the attack and posted it on social media.

Jalandhar’s Rs 2,000-cr sports goods industry says Covid shut 40% units, govt says no distress

ThePrint visited Jalandhar, where workers and business owners in the sporting goods industry are sending distress signals. Government officials say concerns are overblown.

These migrants in Kashmir were packed up & ready to go, but stayed. Now it’s ‘back to normal’

Killings of 11 civilians, including migrants and local residents, in October scared many workers out of the Valley. But panic has ebbed now, and many who left also want to return.

Many unorganised workers’ accounts not Aadhar-linked, e-SHRAM shows, may not be getting subsidies

Of the 5.29 crore informal sector workers registered on e-SHRAM portal so far, the bank accounts of 74.78% aren’t linked to Aadhaar.

This ‘start-up zone’ in Bihar is West Champaran’s answer to lockdown migrant exodus

The district administration in West Champaran has set up a start-up zone that is run by the migrant labourers who returned jobless during last year's Covid lockdown.

Why Punjab migrant farm labourers don’t want to leave despite Covid surge & lockdown fears

The 2020 lockdown and ensuing migrant exodus triggered much upheaval in Punjab as it came in the run-up to rabi marketing season and ahead of paddy sowing.

Send ‘hi’, find job — govt’s WhatsApp chatbot will help labourers look for work in home states

Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment Council creates portal called SAKSHAM to connect labourers to MSMEs in their native places. Idea took root during Covid.

Gujarat HC orders release of man detained as ‘dangerous’ after he asked about migrant trains

An FIR was registered against the man, who is a Congress worker, on 10 May after a commotion broke out between migrants and police at Vavdi checkpost.

Why industries in Maharashtra are reluctant to employ Marathi workers despite shortage

Nearly 12 lakh of Maharashtra's 38 lakh migrant workers have left the state over the past weeks during the lockdown, affecting more than 40 sectors.

Ivanka Trump thinks Jyoti Kumari’s story will inspire Indians, but it should shame us

When 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari took her ailing father on her bicycle and drove 1,200 kms over seven days, she didn’t know she would become a global celebrity.

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.