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Mahesh Jena, a 20-year-old worker in Sangli, Maharashtra, chose a perilous journey home over uncertainty & confusion that's gripped the migrant community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’?
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 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.
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.
Every thing is fine about the article except the proposal to engage pharmacies and quakes for covid strategy. This is very dangerous and present a deadly precident. Again qualifies GPs are not informal, they are atleast mbbs which is a formal education in medical science. Engage them as much as you can. But not the unqualified quakes and pharmacist you taking about. There is a huge difference between them.
Every thing is fine about the article except the proposal to engage pharmacies and quakes for covid strategy. This is very dangerous and present a deadly precident. Again qualifies GPs are not informal, they are atleast mbbs which is a formal education in medical science. Engage them as much as you can. But not the unqualified quakes and pharmacist you taking about. There is a huge difference between them.