-NDTV Karnataka Lockdown: The trains to ferry migrants were started last week after much back and forth between the Centre and the states amid a countrywide exodus of labourers. Bengaluru: Special trains from Karnataka taking home thousands of migrants stranded by the coronavirus Lockdown have been cancelled by the BS Yediyurappa government, which says workers are needed for construction activities that have resumed in the state. The BJP government is forcing the...

-The Indian Express Diverting rice to produce ethanol during the pandemic is unethical. Surplus grains should be used to feed those in distress. In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and a country-wide Lockdown came an announcement that was difficult to believe. The press release said the National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC) chaired by the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas has decided to use “surplus” rice available with the Food...

-The Telegraph Morality forbids what the law doesn’t: For now, employers should follow this adage and pay due wages It’s one of the Covid-19 Lockdown’s most tragic side-effects: employers forced to suspend business operations, leaving them without the cashflow to pay their employees. And often, the workers not getting paid are those earning minimum wages that have no cash reserves to fall back on. These people who are getting hit the hardest...

-Newsclick.in Several nomadic people usually set out in March on traditional routes, where animals feed on vegetation. Once Lockdown is lifted and kharif sowing starts, the animals will be left with nothing to chew on. Pastoral nomads stranded in the Lockdown in Rajasthan’s desert region since March 25, are worried about feeding their animals, as once the Lockdown lifts, the summer heat would have dried out vegetation on their traditional routes. The seasonal...

-The Hindu Right now, linking Aadhar with Public Distribution System would have been very good, the Nobel laureate tells former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in a conversation The Congress on Tuesday released an edited video of a conversation between Nobel laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee and former party chief Rahul Gandhi on the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the excerpts from the conversation. Rahul Gandhi: Just out of curiosity, you got...