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Topic: Migrant workers

Indian doctors are pessimistic and are bracing for a tsunami of coronavirus cases

More than a dozen physicians say it’s just a matter of time before coronavirus sweeps India and that the country isn’t ready.

Migrant workers pursue long journeys back home amid coronavirus lockdown

The last few days have been witness to large crowds of migrant workers at bus stations trying to leave Delhi ahead of the lockdown.

Centre committed all support to migrant workers during lockdown: Home Minister Amit Shah

The home ministry asked states and union territories to immediately set up relief camps for migrant workers, pilgrims, who are returning to their domicile states.

Stranded & with no jobs due to Covid-19 lockdown, labourers head home on foot, govt buses

There were chaotic scenes at the border points between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh where state buses, arranged by the UP government, waited to carry migrant labourers home.

‘Better to die with families’ — no food or money, Delhi migrants prefer the long walk home

The govt’s announcement of relief measures for 3 months triggered fear among migrant workers that the lockdown may get extended. This led to more rounds of migration.

‘Easier to survive in village’ — it’s a long journey home for Delhi labourers with no work

Robbed of their daily income, daily wage earners and labourers sit out the nationwide lockdown cramped in tiny shanties in cities or in villages.

Migrant workers sent more money to India than any other country last year

The World Bank estimates remittances to low and middle-income countries reached a record high of $529 billion in 2018, an increase of 9.6 per cent from 2017.

Journalists exposed in #MeToo movement, and fleeing migrant workers

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Migrants attacked in Gujarat: Mumbai-like anger for workers or reaction to minor’s rape?

Migrant workers, mostly from UP and Bihar, are reportedly fleeing Gujarat after 15 of them were attacked in the backlash against the rape of...

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

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.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

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.