The death of labourer, Mohd Amrez, comes a day after three army personnel were killed while fighting two terrorists, who were attempting to carry out a suicide bomb attack at Rajouri.
ThePrint visited Jalandhar, where workers and business owners in the sporting goods industry are sending distress signals. Government officials say concerns are overblown.
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.
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.
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.
Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment Council creates portal called SAKSHAM to connect labourers to MSMEs in their native places. Idea took root during Covid.
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.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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