This Bill states that all the families of the state, urban and rural, will get guaranteed employment of 125 days every year. The old aged, disabled, single women and widows will receive a minimum pension of Rs 1,000 per month. The state is slated to go to assembly polls later this year.

After 25,000 home guards posted across UP were sacked, Chetan Chauhan, the UP cabinet minister, home guard department, assured them on Wednesday and said: "No home guard would be sacked." But this was not enough

It is true that a government cannot please all the people but at least the 'Sangh Parivar' should have been satisfied if not happy.

At the rate our population is surging, we will, by 2027, surpass china to become the most populated nation in the world with a projected population of about 1.5 billion. This clearly shows that India suffers from a major population explosion

The sale of every automobile from the tractor to the truck and 'Chota Hathi' to two-wheelers has plummeted due to the slump in the automobile sector. It has directly affected the large manufacturers of automobiles and small industries supplying them goods. In Jharkhand, 1,000 small companies and in Lucknow 100 companies are facing the slump. Thousands of workers with these companies are now unemployed

Exactly two years back, on March 25, 2020, the nationwide lockdown came into force. Millions of migrant workers from rural India were stranded in cities without a place to stay, and with no food nor other means. Hundreds of thousands of them walked back home. Two years on, Gaon Connection caught up with these migrant workers and found their wounds haven't healed and their scars run deep.