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Supreme Court directs Union of India, state governments to file status report on whether the 28.55 crore migrants and unorganised workers, registered on E-Shram portal, were having ration cards and whether all of them were given the benefit of food under the National Food Security Act

By Ashok Bhan Althoug...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it was not happy with the steps taken by the Centre in addressing the acute problems of migrant labourers during the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court will today hear a suo motu petition, taking into account the “problems and miseries of migrant labourers," amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Union government today admitted in Parliament that it was completely clueless on how many stranded labourers died trudging their way back through locked down states, or even how much ration (state-wise) had been provided to them during the period.

The lopsided management of lakhs of migrant workers wishing to return to their villages in the absence of jobs and any means of livelihood tells us the story of their plight

America is a nation where people stop for red traffic lights late at night even when no other traffic is obvious. Process is important and it is embedded in a good bit of federal regulations.

A force of young Indians trained by the armed forces can be set up and deployed in the country and even overseas, on request. It can be used for multiple operations

Covid-19 turned the worl...

The migrant crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic is the worst humanitarian tragedy seen in India since Partition. Nothing illustrates that more than the heartbreaking video of a toddler trying to wake up his dead mother on Bihar’s Muzaffarpur railway platform