Migrant workers with their families wait to board buses to their home state of eastern Bihar in Ghaziabad near New Delhi, May 18, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi The announcement of the schedule for the Bihar Assembly elections amid the Covid-19 pandemic is a significant step towards the restoration of the electoral process. The state with the largest reverse migration in the country is all set for polls.  Now the question in mind is, will the migrant workers go to support the move of nationwide lockdown by the NDA government? or will punish the government for the sufferings they had to go through during the pandemic? As per the study, ‘Effects of COVID-19 on migrant households’, conducted through a survey of returning migrants by UNICEF and Development Management Institute (DMI), about half of the households, 51% have lost complete income and 30% faced a major reduction of income due to lockdown. Followed by 12% migrants who have been affected in a minor way and 7% with no impact...

No signs of Rape: According to ANI, ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar has said, “No semen has been found in the forensic report. The FSL report has already clarified that there was no rape on the victim.” “It clearly shows how a conspiracy was hatched to create caste tension on completely wrong information. Action will be taken those who tried to spread misinformation to create caste tension,” said the officer. Rape victims’ testimony sufficient: SC However, in July 2008, a bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P Sathasivam went to the extent of saying that a victim’s testimony “does not require corroboration from any other evidence including the evidence of a doctor.” However, it said that the victim’s statement should be “convincing”. Well, in Hathras case, sadly the victim is no more, however she has given the statement, so it would be worth a watch to know what will be the next steps by the judiciary system. Gandhi Lathi-charged Also, as Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra were on the wa...