Migrant Workers
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Israel: Money to clear debts or safety – migrant workers looking to leave face difficult choice
Thai and Filipino nationals make up the biggest share of foreign migrant workers in the country.
Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mariejo Ramos, Thomson Reuters Foundation & Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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You cannot ‘create disquiet’ in stable state, SC tells YouTuber accused of spreading misinformation
Manish Kashyap challenged the invocation of the National Security Act and the 19 FIRs filed against him for spreading fake videos of attacks on migrant workers.
Scroll Staff
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India’s migrant children are falling through the cracks of social programmes
Migrant children have lower nutritional outcomes, are less likely to complete schooling and to benefit from government policies and programmes.
Azera Parveen Rahman, IndiaSpend.com
Trending
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Mumbai school principal told to resign after being targeted by Hindutva website
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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Sugar in Nestlé baby food sold in African countries shows how corporations influence public policy
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SC asks BJP’s Prashant Umrao to apologise for tweet on attacks on migrant workers in Tamil Nadu
The court also remarked that as a laywer, Umrao should be ‘more responsible’.
Scroll Staff
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Bihar officials find videos of attacks on migrant workers in Tamil Nadu are fake
In their report to Bihar chief minister, the four-member team concluded that no migrant workers were attacked in the southern state.
Scroll Staff
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BJP spread rumours about attacks on migrant workers in Tamil Nadu for electoral gains, alleges JD(U)
JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh claimed that the BJP tried to raise tensions between Tamil Nadu and Bihar but failed.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: Meet Sparkles, the new avatar of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog with a special costume
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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Watch: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
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Disinformation about attacks on migrants spread after my call for united Opposition, says MK Stalin
The Tamil Nadu chief minister said that people can understand BJP’s agenda if they notice the timing of the spread of the disinformation.
Scroll Staff
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Bihar team visiting Tamil Nadu says situation normal for migrant workers
Several videos circulating on social media earlier this week had falsely claimed that daily wage workers from Bihar are being attacked in the southern state.
Scroll Staff
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Explained: How disinformation and politics made migrant workers flee Tamil Nadu
The BJP has been accused of using false claims of violence against North Indian migrant workers to target the ruling parties in Tamil Nadu and Bihar.
Nachiket Deuskar
The Reel
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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Post-Covid, Centre must simplify access to welfare schemes for migrant workers to truly benefit
Many unorganised sector labourers lack the basic documentation and technical know-how required to register for such programmes.
Prabhat Raghavan & Gauri Thampi
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19 workers fled Arunachal border road project. Only 10 survived. Their ordeal tells a larger story
Relatives of the workers, all from impoverished villages in Lower Assam, allege they were engaged in forced labour.
Rokibuz Zaman
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Modi government’s efforts to help India’s 11.1 crore informal workers in MSMEs have fallen short
The criteria for relief packages for the sector excluded more than 90% of medium and small industries.
Chitra Rawat, IndiaSpend.com & Shiwani Agrawal, IndiaSpend.com
The Field
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Badminton, Thomas and Uber Cup 2024: Indian women exit in quarter-final after loss to Japan
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Squash, Saurav Ghosal interview: ‘People enjoyed watching me, this was the legacy I wanted to leave’
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Aryan, Yashwardhan, Priyanshu among Indians in semi-finals
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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IPL 2024: Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar bowl Punjab Kings to crucial win over Chennai Super Kings