Amid China and Covid-19 let's not forget the migrants

If solutions are not found, adequately and in good time, things could simply slip out of everyone’s hands, warns N Sathiya Moorthy.  IMAGE: Police personnel baton charge a migrant......

Someone like Shiv Kumar had to be tamed

'At 23, he has experienced what very few of his age have: Poverty at home, a stint in jail for his student activism.''His experience told him that if you want your rights, you have to fight for......

This govt has a tendency to put the burden of suffering on people

'You cannot implement such a huge exercise, which is bound to cause misery to millions, without studying every aspect of its consequences, economic and social,' notes Sherna Gandhy. IMAGE: A......

India's fight against COVID-19 has gone awry

'The handling of the pandemic, under this totally constitutional and legal three-level dictatorship, has begun to show its downside,' observes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra......

Govt begins mapping migrant workers to work out relief package

The Union home ministry and the labour ministry have asked state governments to coordinate with the chief labour commissioner’s (CLC’s) office to give a comprehensive data of all the......

Labour codes to herald new reforms; job creation to be major challenge

The implementation of four labour codes in one go from April 1 next year will usher in a new wave of reforms in industrial relations and also help in attracting more investments but employment......

'The crisis we are facing now is lack of demand'

'There is lack of demand because people have no jobs, and no income.' 'Lakhs of people have lost their jobs and they have no income which has led to no demand in the market.' IMAGE: A salesman......

'SMEs are badly affected, business is down 50%'

'Nobody expected the slowdown to go for these many days.' 'Unfortunately, it is an unbelievably bad slow down.' V Sundaram, the president of the Coimbatore Small Scale Industries Association, along......

SEE: Bhaichung Bhutia offers shelter to migrant workers

'We will also provide them some basic ration. I am also working with the local authorities to see how it can be done.' IMAGE: Former India football captain Bhaichung Bhutia said he is in touch......