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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicMigrant workers

Topic: Migrant workers

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...

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

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.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

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.