-IndiaToday.in Some of the migrant workers said that they left Mumbai during the first Covid-19 outbreak to be with their respective families. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "Congress crossed all limits during the first wave of the infection. The party (Congress) gave free train tickets to migrant workers to leave Mumbai...As a result, the Covid spread rapidly in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.” India Today TV spoke to...
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A Budget Whose Silences are Ominous -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The people are thus facing increasingly hard times, but in the bland vision of the Modi government, there is no cognisance of it. However, that itself is ominous because when the balance of payments becomes unmanageable, the Modi government will run to the IMF to ask for a rescue package. No budget in recent memory has been presented at a time when the economy is in such dire straits: unemployment is...
More »1,750 Indians died due to extreme weather events in 2021, says new IMD report
In the month of January this year, more than 100 homeless persons died (please click here and here to access) in Delhi-NCR due to cold wave like conditions. Although a Delhi-based non-government organisation (NGO) Centre for Holistic Development (CHD) made that claim, and therefore asked the Chief Minister of Delhi to make proper arrangements for the homeless poor during winters, the officials of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB)...
More »Number Theory: Protests over railway jobs are a grim reminder of the state of India’s job market -Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times The protests over problems with recruitment for railway jobs in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, may well be India’s first large-scale unemployment riots The protests over problems with recruitment for railway jobs in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, may well be India’s first large-scale unemployment riots. The protests have taken place across a large number of places in these two states. News reports suggest that at...
More »Property Worth Crores Destroyed In Bihar Protests, Say Sources: 10 Points -Parimal Kumar
-NDTV.com Railway property was damaged across four stations in Bihar -- Ara, Gaya, Nawada, Sitamarhi -- which bore the brunt of protests. New Delhi: Railway property worth crores has been damaged and 12 government employees were injured in Bihar during the three-day agitation by students against the changes in railway recruitment rules, sources have said. Here are the Top 10 points in this big story: 1. Railway property was damaged across four stations in...
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