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Migrant workers travelling home on a goods truck pass through Bhubaneswar on May 21.

Understanding migration

When governments and their plans are found to be blatantly wanting in addressing reverse migration, exercises such as the Ekta Parishad’s survey of mi

Divya Trivedi ,Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Migrant workers queueing up at a screening station before boarding a bus to the station to take a train to Ballia in Uttar Pradesh on May 18.

Capital unconcern

Migrant workers feel cheated by the way the capital city has treated them during the crisis and continue to head back home in the hope that they would

Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel take stock of the situation during the nationwide lockdown, in Raipur on March 30.

An oasis of comfort

Chhattisgarh stands out among central Indian States for its efficient handling of the pandemic and its far-sightedness in dealing with lockdown-relate

Zafarul Islam Khan, Chairman, Delhi Minorities Commission. The police landed up at his doorstep following an FIR against him over a social media post.

The virus of authoritarian strain

Taking advantage of the lockdown restrictions, the Delhi Police unleashes a witch-hunt against anti-CAA activists, especially Muslims, on the pretext

People wait for distribution of free food during the extended lockdown in New Delhi on May 4.

Informal sector workers in Delhi suffer amid prolonged lockdown

With Delhi in the third phase of a prolonged lockdown, wherein it has relaxed some restrictions on the movement of individuals, the situation has turn

People queuing up to buy liquor in New Delhi on May 6 despite an increase in price per bottle by 70 per cent.

Confusion in the capital

The relaxed restrictions of phase 3 of the lockdown have not made life in Delhi easier or less worrying.

Transgender people maintaining social distancing as they wait for food distribution in Hyderabad on April 29.

COVID-19 and the plight of the transgender community

Highlighting the plight of the transgender community, Amnesty International said: “As the world comes together, India’s transgender community fights C

People waiting on the banks of the Yamuna to be transferred to a temporary shelter in New Delhi on April 15.

In fits and starts

After the initial lethargic response to the sudden migrant onrush, the State government retrieves lost ground to launch containment and surveillance m

A Bangladeshi couple who allegedly attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi, being taken to a quarantine centre in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, on April 9.

Targeting a community

The COVID-19 crisis brings out the communal polarisation of society that has been on the rise in the past few years.

Personnel of an NGO serving meals to homeless families at Andheri in Mumbai on April 1.

Double distress

The Central government announced the lockdown abruptly and with apparently no thought for how India’s millions of vulnerable and socially excluded peo

Migrant construction workers housed at a shelter near Chennai following the lockdown, on March 31.
Photo: B. Velankanni Raj

Survey finds 94 per cent of construction workers ineligible for funds transfer

The question of inadequate relief measures for migrant workers left stranded in more ways than one by the COVID-19 lockdown was brought out starkly in

In Guwahati, stranded people leave on a truck after government announced the lockdown, on March 24.

Guests stranded as hotels shut down soon after PM’s lockdown announcement

People who were away from their homes when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the 21-day lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, were l

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