SC order comes after it took sotu motu cognisance of media reports showing migrant workers walking on foot and cycling for hundreds of kilometres to get back home.
BSP supremo says Congress’ failure to create jobs for decades forced people to go to cities, BJP govt should’ve given them advance notice before the lockdown.
Modi govt has been criticised for announcing interventions in economic package that are of a long-term nature. Opposition, activists say migrants who lost livelihood need cash in hand.
As India goes for a free fall due to Covid and lockdown, insensitive would be too mild a word to characterise Modi government’s shameful handling of the crisis.
As many as 300 Nepalese migrants, caught while trying to cross over to their homeland during the lockdown, have been spending their days in quarantine at Sitamarhi.
A Shramik train was scheduled to depart from Bandra for Bihar at noon. However, several migrants said there was a rumour that two more trains were to set off later in the day.
Led by Union minister Thawar Chand Gehlot, the panel has recommended to Modi govt a slew of measures to encourage lakhs of migrant workers to come back to work in cities.
Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Strange but true that it took SC almost 2 months and order by 12 HC to realize that executive branch of India had failed to address issues that it created for citizens of that tantamount-ed to turning lock-down with 4 hours notice without any consideration for elderly, disabled, pregnant women, migrant workers and others lockup.
SC taking notice of issues is good but it will take some time to win back trust of citizens to take timely action.
It is possible the apex court has been moved by some of the fine orders high courts have been passing in this matter, in the highest traditions of the Indian judiciary.
I am absolutely appalled with our SC. What has Narendra Modi through Ravi Shankar Prasad done to it? Is this the way you destroy a country’s most respected institution? I thought “that fellow” Ranjan Gogoi had retired! But they all seem to be under his spell! (I am sorry I cannot take his name with more respect). A man like Goswami gets a hearing as well as protection within 24 hours, the 370 thing is still not heard, Rafale case is still not re-heard even when Modi government themselves pointed our that there was a misinterpretation, and now TWO MONTHS after Modi declared a lockdown at 4-hour notice, the honorable Supreme Court is talking of free food and shelter etc. Is this the way you treat your poor? Is this the New India we are hurtling towards, under the camera-savvy Narendra Modi’s leadership?
Strange but true that it took SC almost 2 months and order by 12 HC to realize that executive branch of India had failed to address issues that it created for citizens of that tantamount-ed to turning lock-down with 4 hours notice without any consideration for elderly, disabled, pregnant women, migrant workers and others lockup.
SC taking notice of issues is good but it will take some time to win back trust of citizens to take timely action.
It is possible the apex court has been moved by some of the fine orders high courts have been passing in this matter, in the highest traditions of the Indian judiciary.
God be praised.
I am absolutely appalled with our SC. What has Narendra Modi through Ravi Shankar Prasad done to it? Is this the way you destroy a country’s most respected institution? I thought “that fellow” Ranjan Gogoi had retired! But they all seem to be under his spell! (I am sorry I cannot take his name with more respect). A man like Goswami gets a hearing as well as protection within 24 hours, the 370 thing is still not heard, Rafale case is still not re-heard even when Modi government themselves pointed our that there was a misinterpretation, and now TWO MONTHS after Modi declared a lockdown at 4-hour notice, the honorable Supreme Court is talking of free food and shelter etc. Is this the way you treat your poor? Is this the New India we are hurtling towards, under the camera-savvy Narendra Modi’s leadership?