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Deal with migrant workers tactfully to prevent exodus: Advisory to officers -Mahender Singh Manral

-The Indian Express Delhi Police's special branch asked the district police to intensify patrolling at night to prevent unauthorized movement of labourers. As Covid cases surge and the possibility of a lockdown looms in the national capital, the Special Branch of Delhi Police, after taking cues from the mass migrant movement during the last shutdown, has asked all 15 district police officials to counsel migrant workers and send them back to their...

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Jhansi train incident with nuns shows Christian habits are the new skullcaps in India -Rachel John

-ThePrint.in After Christian nuns were harassed over fears of ‘forceful conversion’, church groups are advising nuns and priests not to step out in their habits. Clothes are deeply embedded in the regional and cultural framework of India. But today, they are being used for something far more sinister — religious profiling. Certain clothing items are categorically unsafe to wear in this country because they make you easy targets, as the recent train incident...

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Over 42,000 posts reserved for SC, ST & OBC vacant in union ministries, govt tells Lok Sabha -Sravasti Dasgupta

-ThePrint.in Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh says there were 78,923 vacant posts under reserved categories on 1 January 2020, and 42,066 of them remain unfilled. New Delhi: Over 42,000 posts reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Castes (OBC) are vacant in various central government ministries, the Narendra Modi government has revealed. In a written reply presented before Lok Sabha, Minister of State (MoS) in...

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Post-lockdown misery of India’s migrant workers -Rajendran Narayanan

-The Indian Express One year since the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed, there’s been little change in the hunger levels and unemployment rate among migrant workers, especially women. Today marks the first anniversary of the day the central government announced an ill-planned national lockdown. India is home to nearly 500 million informal sector workers with practically non-existent social security and the unilateral decision pushed them into perilous circumstances, triggering their great exodus from...

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Nuns’ detention in Uttar Pradesh fans Kerala poll furore -Ramesh Babu

-Hindustan Times The nuns’ congregation belongs to Syro-Malabar Church which is based in Kerala. Thiruvananthapuram: The brief detention of a group of nuns by Government railway Police (GRP) following complaints of alleged forced conversion by Bajrang Dal activists in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district has generated a political firestorm in Kerala ahead of the crucial assembly elections next month. The nuns’ congregation belongs to Syro-Malabar Church which is based in Kerala. While the Kerala Catholic...

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