“Milking their misery”: Indian state makes returning migrants pay for quarantine
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Coronavirus quarantine charges levied by an Indian state on migrant workers who are being flown home from Gulf nations will drive many returnees further into debt and put them at risk of destitution, campaigners and labourers said on Wednesday. India in May began a drive to repatriate nearly a million citizens […]
How Indian state’s three-capital plan could spur equal growth
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A proposal by the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to have three capitals rather than one could be a model for more equal development and help release pressure from the country’s overcrowded cities, say planning experts. Last month, the government of Andhra Pradesh passed the Decentralisation and Equal Development of […]
Indian police use facial recognition app to reunite families with lost children
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Indian police have reunited thousands of missing and trafficked children with their families using a new facial recognition app that campaigners said was a “game changer” in tackling the problem. Tens of thousands of children go missing every year in India and many are trafficked to work in eateries, handicraft industries, […]
Indian state to map cotton supply chain to stamp out child labour
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A top cotton producing state in India is to start mapping its entire supply chain as part of a unique collaboration with the International Labour Organisation to weed out child labour and slavery from its fields and factories. The southern state of Telangana will this month begin a three-year project with […]
INDIA: HINDU EXTREMIST VIOLENCE ON THE RISE IN SOUTHERN STATES
TEJASWI RAVINDER reports for World Watch Monitor…
Indian Christians charged with ‘hurting religious sentiments’ by handing out Easter tracts
World Watch Monitor Four Christians, including the wife of a church leader, have been charged with “hurting religious sentiments” after they handed out Christian tracts during an Easter procession in India’s southern Telangana state. Rayapuri Jyothi, 38, Meena Kumari, 52, Mahima Kumari, 35 and Bagadam Sudhakar, 45, were taken into custody by police in the […]