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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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Topic: Migrants

Between locked down cities and distant homes, migrants lost their way in own country

Modi government’s lockdown to tackle Covid-19 pandemic led to a huge humanitarian crisis, not witnessed by the country in recent memory.

With the anti-poor lockdown, BJP is back to its upper caste, middle class, urban roots

Demonetisation’s political gain was to rebrand the BJP as a pro-poor party. The poorly implemented coronavirus lockdown is undoing that image.

Modi emerged from poverty but his govt is blind to the poor

The Modi govt seems to have worked harder on its own public-relations battle than on figuring out how lockdown would affect India’s poorest people.

Migrant workers stranded in their own land while buses practice social distancing

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Delhi’s migrant voters from south prefer AAP but UP & Bihar could decide election outcome

Migrants from UP and Bihar dominate Delhi’s population. Two out of every three migrants in Delhi were born in either state.

Maharashtra to Jharkhand, jobs for local youth – politics that Indian economy can’t afford

Internal mobility has a positive impact on economic growth. So why are India's politicians turning myopic in one state after another?

Migrant workers scramble to get out of Kashmir, say night of clampdown was horrific

Thousands of labourers have taken state-owned buses and private vehicles to Jammu, but many more are stuck as confusion reigns in Kashmir.

This year, US has already deported 550 Indians — 50% more than first 6 months of 2018

In 2017 and 2018, the total number of Indians deported by the Trump administration were 570 and 790 respectively.

Move over Mumbai, Delhi is the new centre of the burgeoning Bhojpuri music industry

Delhi’s proximity to UP and Bihar, coupled with the earning opportunities in the city, has made it a fertile ground for the ambitious Bhojpuri singers.

Congress state units compare Gujarat migrant exodus with Partition using 2010 photo

The widely-shared image, showing an overcrowded passenger train, is from Mathura.

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.