-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After seeing the massive rescue operation to its completion, the Uttarakhand government, with the aid of disaster management authorities, is getting ready to release the final list of "missing" persons who can, for all practical purposes, be "presumed dead". The "missing" database is expected to be ready by the weekend, or July 8, and will be released soon after. Sources overseeing the relief work indicated that...

-PTI IMPHAL: Manipur government has taken up certain security measures to protect the non-Manipuri migrant labourers following recent attacks on them by unidentified miscreants by exploding grenades with the latest attack occurring on June 27 night in which two non-locals were killed and three others seriously injured here, official sources said on Tuesday. Official sources said various mobile check posts have been set up different places where there was huge concentration...

-The Hindu Indentured labour may be a forgotten part of our colonial economic history but Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh are still sending ‘Girmitya' to toil in distant lands The descendants of indentured labourers, who migrated from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to erstwhile colonies, recently met at The Hague in the Netherlands to commemorate 140 years of migration - perpetuated through a system popularly known as ‘Girmit.' They gathered from all...

-Outlook As the Manmohan Singh government makes evident its unfriendliness to villages, the nation hurtles towards disaster. It's a danger no one wants to face. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been trying for years to make us believe that agriculture is a vast marshland in which a huge population is stuck ankle- to neck-deep and it is his duty to rescue them. "Our salvation lies in moving people out of agriculture," he...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A Delhi government circular that excludes migrant children from availing quota facility under the economically weaker section (EWS) category is under the scanner of Delhi high court. Justice G S Sistani recently issued notice to the Delhi government and sought its response on the validity of the circular. HC was hearing a petition filed by a street vendor seeking EWS benefits for her five-year-old child and...