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Shramik Express demand down to 30 trains a day versus 255 in May

On the other hand, the much-hyped special trains - including 15 pairs of Rajdhanis and 100 pairs of mail and express trains - are running on low occupancy of 62 per cent and 67 per cent, respectively.

Housing for workers

Affordable accommodation for casual labourers has become a must

Migrants to get 20% wage hike, other benefits after Jharkhand-BRO agreement

Thousands of workers from the Santhal Pargana region of the state have been going to Leh-Ladakh since 1970s for construction works, particularly roads on difficult terrains and peaks

Monetising fiscal deficit via secondary OMOs right way: Uday Kotak

If we keep subsidising or protecting businesses that are not able to compete, we have an issue. I would expect the market to be able to sort things out, says Uday Kotak

Focus of political storm in Bihar shifts from Covid-19 cases to jobs

Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav has emerged after many weeks to challenge the chief minister on the issue

'Please protect yourself & others': Lockdown pictures that tell a story

The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India rose to 2,36,657 with a record single-day spike of 9,887 cases in 24 hours

Maharashtra spent Rs 100 cr to transport 1.1 mn migrants: Home Minister

He said the state government provided railway tickets to labourers besides food packets and other necessary items

Covid-19 updates: India overtakes Italy's caseload, all you need to know

Wuhan, the first epicentre of the pandemic, the city discharged the last of three coronavirus patients on Friday

Best of BS Opinion: Govt's limited fiscal cushion, doing-business concerns

From why this year's budgeted net tax revenue for the Centre is impossible to achieve to how Indians are blase about class-driven brutality, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces

SC mulls giving 15 days to Centre, states to transport all migrant workers

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said state governments can tell as to how many more migrant workers need to be shifted and how many trains are required for that purpose

The Covid-19 deniers

Social stigma associated with Covid-19 has led to people denying that they, or their family members, have it - and this will make the task of containing the pandemic much harder.

The power of the cause: Meet the trio behind a start-up to feed migrants

KVN Foundation, the start-up which was conceived when the lockdown began on March 25, has produced 4.5 million free meals for migrants and day labourers since then

Sonu Sood sponsors another flight for migrant workers; now to Dehradun

The actor also said he was looking forward to more such flights in the near future

In pictures: Migrants head home, mosques gear up for Unlock 1.0 and more

The home ministry had last week said ''Unlock-1'' will be initiated in the country from June 8 under which the nationwide lockdown, will be relaxed to a great extent

Unemployment rate falls to 5.8% in 2018-19 from over a four-decade high

The unemployment rate in 2017-18 had risen to 6.1%, compared to 2.2% in 2011-12, according to the results of the Periodic Labour Force Survey released by the National Statistical Office.

The indignity of labour laws

Suspending the entire labour law as some states have tried is not sustainable

Going back to basics: Make labour laws simple, protect workers' rights

It's not just the inability to downsize that constrains it but opaque hiring practices and the illogic of size-based legal thresholds that encourage companies to stay small

UP provides cash support of Rs 1,000 each to more than 3.3 mn poor people

This includes 1.79 million construction labourers, 881,000 urban labourers and 659,000 destitute in the rural areas of the state

Untested Covid control

Will the strategy of society instead of the State controlling the virus be tested by rising deaths?

India coronavirus dispatch: By how much can distancing, masks lower spread?

From rebuilding trust in public transport, to how face masks can help contain virus, and how construction firms got away with not paying during lockdown - read these and more in today's India dispatch