[ad_1] The central government has announced an economic package that supposedly represents about 10 percent of India’s gross domestic product (GDP). GDP is a measure of the economic size of a country. India’s GDP is around Rs 200 lakh crore. This is how 10 percent of that results in Rs …
Read More »Vande Bharat Mission: Grateful to be back home, students say despite expensive tickets; lack of social distance in flight scares passengers
[ad_1] Air India began on May 7 the first phase of one of the largest government repatriation operations with up to 64 flights flying to 12 international destinations to airlift some 15,000 stranded Indians who are trapped abroad due to to the COVID-19 blockade. Flights operate from 12 countries in …
Read More »Coronavirus blockade: “There is no dignity in living like this, it is humiliating”, migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh explain why they want to leave Mumbai
[ad_1] “If I have to die, I would rather be close to my parents when I die. I don’t want to die here. “ Those were the words of Ramodar, an 18-year-old boy in Mumbai, desperate to go home to Uttar Pradesh and see his parents. He worked as a …
Read More »Coronavirus shutdown: unions accuse BS Yediyurappa of yielding to property lobby after Karnataka cancels special trains for migrant workers
[ad_1] Bangalore: On a warm Wednesday afternoon, spirits rose to the gates of a sprawling construction site in southern Bengaluru. In the context of five residential towers under construction, which will house more than 2,500 families in 31-story buildings, hundreds of workers shouted a demand: Let’s go home, even if …
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