Are we facing another migrant labour crisis? April 12, 2021, 11:05 PM IST
Saroj served in the Indian Army as a technical officer for 23 years and opted for premature retirement in 1991. Operational service includes 1971 India-Pakistan war in high altitude sector and two years in counterinsurgency operations in northeast. LESS. MORE
No one can forget the problems created by the reverse migration of labour after the first lockdown was announced in middle of March 2020. There were many heart wrenching scenes that still haunt the nation. A lot of lessons were learnt that included what could have been done to avoid the chaos as the migrant labour was finding ways and means to go back home to their parent states. Given the suddenness of the lockdown announcement and the magnitude of the numbers involved, perhaps the authorities and the labour were both unprepared for the situation as it unfolded last year. The question that emerges today is will history repeat itself
QUAD initiative – A view point March 15, 2021, 2:31 PM IST
Saroj served in the Indian Army as a technical officer for 23 years and opted for premature retirement in 1991. Operational service includes 1971 India-Pakistan war in high altitude sector and two years in counterinsurgency operations in northeast. LESS. MORE
The first ever virtual QUAD meeting was held on 12 March, 2021. The QUAD concept is not something new as it was first mooted in 2007 by Japan. Since 2007, various meetings and discussions had been held over the years at the ministerial levels. However, this was the first time that respective heads of world’s four largest democracies, USA, India, Australia and Japan, came together. The leaders discussed many issues that included development, cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, Covid-19 vaccination programme, climate change, technology and assured supply chain management.
The current BJP government led by Mr Narendra Modi has often been termed as autocratic. Some from the opposition, media, liberals and social activists (henceforth called the Crony Club) have even termed Mr Modi as.
There has been a fundamental change across the country that can be seen and felt from North to South and East to West since the arrival of Mr Narendra Modi and BJP on the national.
The investigations by the international team constituted by WHO to examine and establish the origin and spread of Coronavirus are over. In a televised event the team announced the results of their supposedly herculean efforts..