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Unlocking India

Reopening essential; time for awareness campaigns

Industrial activity picking up pace in UP; no new tax proposal: Adityanath

UP government eyeing post-covid investments with companies looking to exit China

Reviving the farm economy

The return of migrant workers to their villages offers an opportunity to give agribusiness a leg-up

Trains to hospital queries: When calls go beyond Covid in this control room

From March 25, when the control centre got formalised to May 28, as many as 66,563 calls have been received here, and by end of this month the numbers could well surpass 70,000.

India on the brink of reaching grim milestone of 5,000 Covid-19 deaths

It began as a rich man's disease that came to India on the plane and then ended up uprooting the poor as well.

In pictures: What daily life during coronavirus pandemic looks like

A hospital honours a patient and chief minister visits people in quarantine at their homes.

Railways running 'Corona Express' in name of Shramik trains, says Mamata

The Chief Minister said that a decision has been taken to increase the state government's workforce capacity

Best of BS Opinion: Basic minimum income to farmers, lockdown 4.0, and more

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Lessons from the lockdown

The corona pandemic of 2020 will join cataclysms such as killer floods, communal bloodbaths, or a mass migration rising to Partition levels

Vinod Kapri filmed migrants who cycled from Delhi to their Bihar village

His docuseries puts India's migrant debacle into sharp focus, writes Nikita Puri

Shramik trains: Rlys appeal to people with comorbidities to avoid travel

At least nine passengers were reported dead on May 27 over a span of 48 hours on board the migrant trains, with the railways stating that all of them had health conditions.

After flak over Shramik, Rlys says only 71 out of 3,840 trains diverted

Over the past few days, at least nine people lost their lives in different Shramik trains, for which the reasons were allegedly lack of supply of food and water

When will Krishna get her old life back?

Her son and daughter who both have jobs in small businesses, had found themselves home without pay during the lockdown

Life and death in lockdown: Pictures from around India

Restrictions confining people to their homes entered the 66 day on Friday as the number of coronavirus cases steadily increases.

UP signs MoUs with industry bodies to create 1.1 million jobs for migrants

The migrant workers will lay the foundation of New UP, says CM Adityanath

Coronavirus LIVE: India has more deaths than China; total cases at 165,348

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Fourth tweak in social security Bill likely to cover more workers

The current social security laws in India exclude about 90 per cent of the workforce - mainly in the unorganised sector.

Nearly 2.3 mn in quarantine, Maharashtra has the highest: Govt estimates

Maharashtra has the highest number of people in quarantine facilities -- 602,000 -- followed by Gujarat, which has kept a total of 442,000 lakh people in quarantine centres

States can't charge fare from migrant workers, must provide food, says SC

The bench, also comprising Justices S K Kaul and M R Shah, directed that states oversee the registration of migrant workers and ensure that they are made to board the train or bus at the earliest

Top headlines: Indian economy to shrink 5% says S&P, power sector woes

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