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Topic: Migrant workers

Home ministry allows special trains to take stranded workers, tourists, students home

A few hours after the first special train left Telangana’s Lingampalli for Jharkhand’s Hatia, MHA announces more such services to help stranded people.

Is govt right to send migrants back on trains as lockdown eases & economic activity resumes?

About 1,200 migrant workers left Telangana for Jharkhand Friday on a special train.

Can’t work, can’t go, can’t stay. A virus trilemma for low-cost migrant workers abroad

Migrants can’t work, can’t go home (with airlines grounded) and stand a greater risk of infection by staying put in their densely packed urban quarters.

Nitish govt gets to work to bring 27 lakh migrants, students back but says it’ll take months

Bihar has been reluctant to evacuate its migrants and students, and while it has drawn up a plan to get them back, it is yet to shed its hesitance.  

Is Raghuram Rajan a well-meaning economist or partisan critic?

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan discussed the economic effects of Covid lockdown in a video chat.

57 migrant workers cycling home booked for violating lockdown norms

The Mumbai Police also registered a case against three shop owners who sold bicycles to these migrants during the lockdown.

Mirror says rich’s disease now poor’s burden, Mint’s ‘mutual crisis’, ET on restaurant woes

A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.

Modi needs to give migrant workers a ‘New Deal’ to get them back to the cities

Migrant workers tossed out of cities with no food, shelter or transport won't return without a New Deal: Nest eggs for old age and healthcare.

With just biscuits and water, migrants on highways walk, cycle to homes hundreds of miles away

On the way from Delhi-Agra-Lucknow, migrant workers complain of no transportation, and lack of food and government support.

On Camera

Mumbai blasts acquittal must not set a precedent. It’ll hurt both agencies and judiciary

Several terror attack cases have been concluded by following the methods Maharashtra ATS used in the 7/11 case. It’s surprising that the high court didn’t find them worthy of legal scrutiny.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.