Prominent Muslim leaders have demanded withdrawal of FIR registered against Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission Zafarul Islam Khan who has been booked on sedition charge for his social media posts. Condemning the police action and terming it “biased”, the clerics and Muslim leaders from different parts of the country alleged that the case against Khan is just another form...

At least 14 exhausted migrant workers going home due to virus curbs run over by train while they were sleeping on the tracks on Friday morning in Maharashtra state’s Aurangabad district, the railway ministry and media said. Tens of thousands of people have been walking home from India’s key cities after losing their jobs because of a lockdown to contain...

These figures are as of end of week of 3rd May. The unemployment even before Covid19 hit India was already rising and we were at around 8.7%. Amid suspended economic activity to counter the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s unemployment rate surged to 27.11 per cent for the week ended May 3 from the level of 6.74 per cent...