Inter-state migrant workers are a group whose hardships have largely remained unaddressed in India. Recent events have starkly exposed their suffering, fragmentation, exclusion, and heightened ...

Sujeet Tigga, a 27-year-old from the Sambalpur Diocese in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, once dreamed of becoming a priest. He was undergoing formation in a seminary when tragedy struck — his ...

Heat stress due to working outdoors may have caused a 10 per cent decline in productivity among migrant workers in India over the past four decades, a study has estimated. Researchers, including those ...

Indian highways are lined with migrant laborers trying to walk hundreds of miles home to their villages. Left without work or transport, they're... Migrant Workers In India Desperate After National ...

When cyclones batter Odisha, floods swamp Kerala or heatwaves sear the Gangetic plain, India’s internal migrants are often the first to suffer and the last to receive help. Their lives, already ...

India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labor shortages, like Germany and Japan. Students studying Japanese in New Delhi. Schools like Furusawa Academy and Learnet Institute ...