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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Topic: Migrant workers

Small pharmacies to private GPs: India must engage informal economies in fighting coronavirus

Indian cities have shown resilience in overcoming challenges. Yet, resilience has not always resulted in improving urban governance and improving lives of urban poor.

With few biscuit packets and no map, Mahesh cycled 1,700 km in 7 days to get home in Odisha

Mahesh Jena, a 20-year-old worker in Sangli, Maharashtra, chose a perilous journey home over uncertainty & confusion that's gripped the migrant community.

No movement between states for labourers: Home ministry issues guidelines for return to work

The process will involve registration, skill-mapping and screening in the states where workers are located, before they are transported to work sites in buses.

No phones, no money for recharge — Kejriwal’s tech-based solutions for poor have no takers

This month, the Arvind Kejriwal govt announced several mobile apps & a scheme to help migrants and poor. But these relief measures have very little resonance on the ground.

How Covid-19 crisis presents an opportunity to deal with India’s excess food grain stocks

In episode 446 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta delves into the suggestions of Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit Banerjee and Amartya Sen on optimal use of existing stock of food.

Yamuna banks as home, once-a-day langar: How hundreds in Delhi spent 4 days before CM acted

Hundreds of homeless people moved to Yamuna Pushta in Delhi after a shelter home burnt down. But their living conditions were barely survivable for days.

How not to report: A lesson from Republic TV, Times Now, ABP covering Bandra migrants

Was the gathering of migrant workers at Bandra railway station the result of a masjid, a conspiracy or is the clue in absent luggage? Indian TV picked all.

India’s next problem: Convincing frightened workers to return to the cities

Tens of thousands of workers who returned to villages are now weighing whether to return and companies are already reporting labour shortages.

Amit Shah’s self-praise, Owaisi’s Mughal-e-Azam moment & why Stephen King’s angry

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Front pages go from 21 to 40 days lockdown, NIE, Mint & ET warn of Great Depression 2.0

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.

On Camera

Should Goa share Mhadei waters? A living river can’t be divided like property

Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.