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Migrants leaving the Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi on May 30 after they arrived from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands on a special flight arranged by the State government.

Flying high

Jharkhand has managed to keep the infection in check and handled the migrants issue maturely by even airlifting them home, and it accomplished all thi

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A toddler pulling at the cloth covering his dead mother, Arvina Khatun (35), at the Muzaffarpur railway station in Bihar. Khatun, a widowed mother of two, had fallen ill on a Shramik Special train bound for Katihar district.

Flood of worries

The spectre of floods in the approaching monsoon haunts an election-bound Bihar as it struggles to contain the COVID-19 contagion and deal with return

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A group of migrant workers in New Delhi on May 20.

Strangers in cities

The rush of migrant workforce to leave big cities in the wake of the lockdown lays bare the fact that they do not figure in urban adaptation plans and

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Migrants disembarking from a container truck at Mithapur in Patna on May 17.

Community clout

Early surveillance, testing and people’s participation kept the virus under check, but the State’s health infrastructure is expected to come under str

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Returning migrant workers wait at a shelter in Ranchi to board buses that will carry them home to their villages, on May 14.

Cashless & abandoned

The Jharkhand government gets little help from the Centre by way of funds even as thousands of returning migrants pour into the State.

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At a job fair in Chinchwad, Maharashtra in 2019.

Job offers withdrawn, internships now unpaid

Engineering and business school graduates stare at a bleak future as job offers are withdrawn or revised, while delays in joining dates add to the cli

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Migrants who arrived at Danapur railway station in Bihar by a special train from Bengaluru leave to board special buses arranged by the State government to reach their native places on May 5.

Waking up late

Nitish Kumar’s good governance image takes a beating with his inept handling of the return of migrant labourers and students to Bihar.

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In Ranchi on May 1, migrants labourers wait to board buses to reach their native places after their arrival from Hyderabad.

On the train to Hatia

The Jharkhand government arranges for the transport of its migrant labourers back home and ensures that everyone in the State has food on the plate.

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A teacher takes an online class in Ahmedabad during the lockdown.

Students in limbo

High school students on the threshold of their careers stare at an uncertain future because board exams and the entrance exams for various professiona

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Two students from Nagaland, who were denied entry in a supermarket in Mysuru. A screen grab from a video of the incident.

Virus of racism

Racist prejudices against people from the north-eastern region in India come to the surface in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Buying essential items in a market in Ghaziabad on April 8 after the Uttar Pradesh government decided to completely seal hotspots in the State.

Confusion over complete sealing of hotspots in U.P.

Confusion and chaos prevailed in Uttar Pradesh as the government suddenly declared the sealing of 22 hotspots in the State on April 8. As was seen imm

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi lights a lamp as he appeals to the people to show a gesture of unity in the fight against COVID-19, in New Delhi on April 5.

Symbolism vs substance

The Prime Minister’s histrionics do not make up for his government’s failure to respond effectively and in time to the COVID-19 crisis.

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Purnima S. Tripathi