Page 6 - Migration

Many unhappy returns

For states that account for the bulk of the migrants, this unprecedented reverse migration imposes extraordinary challenges of absorbing them without causing social disruptions

Acting on its own, SC takes note of migrants workers' misery in lockdown

The top court listed the matter for May 28 and asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to assist it on the issues

India coronavirus dispatch: Removing the fear and stigma around Covid-19

From reopening schools and rescheduling exams, to India and China's role in vaccine development, and why reverse migration has set us back by 15 years - read these and more in today's India dispatch

Connectivity provides a stronger foundation for exports: Harsh Shringla

He said, the pandemic has highlighted the global shortage of trained personnel in various sectors, especially in health care and the digital domain

An award-winning journalist tracks humankind's migration out of Africa

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America

Covid-19 has made the invisible visible

Today, these 'invisible' people have become visible

India needs basic income scheme to make lockdown work, says Thomas Piketty

The French economist said that India has the potential to become the global democratic leader of the 21st century if it manages to address the issue of inequality

Coronavirus: UP provides cash relief to over a million daily wage workers

The relief amount has been directly credited into the bank accounts of over 1.06 million beneficiaries estimated at Rs 106 crore, of which Rs 4.85 crore was credited during the day

A Pandemic and an election: Covid19-led migration to test Bihar alliance

At the time of writing this report, more than 500 people have been tested in Bihar. The state has also reported 10 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and registered one death

How despite migration caste discrimination follows India's disadvantaged

SCs and STs benefited less from migration as social discrimination continued to impact them in the places they migrated to, research shows

Migration is the issue here

When people move to cities and countries, there is tension between "insiders" and "outsiders"

Labour migration works

AP law reserving jobs for locals is a bad precedent

Labour migration works

AP law reserving jobs for locals is a bad precedent

Can paying poor nations to admit refugees solve the mass migration puzzle?

The deeper analysis of why immigration policy is so hard to fix deserves close attention

Low interstate migration is hurting India's growth and states are to blame

Internal migration improves households' socioeconomic status, and benefits both the region that people migrate to and where they migrate from, research shows

Statisticians Kundu and Mohanan question 2011 Census data on migration

Both former members of the National Statistical Commission and working on migration issues, argue that there are serious anomalies in the figures, particularly those comparing decadal migration

Migration and miscegenation

The ancient history of India's population

Women on the move

Rising migration due to economic factors needs policy response

Indians second-biggest migrant community in Australia: Census data

Indians have become the second highest number of migrants living in Australia at 163,000 since 2011

Economists hint at deviations in migration numbers

Estimates challenge the widely held view that migration in India is low