Kashmiris Will Not Be Trusted to Govern Themselves; Portrait of the Anchor as an Angry and Not-So-Young Man

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Snapshot of the day

July 16, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

The Supreme Court today hauled up the Union and State governments for failing to comply with its directions to issue ration cards to eight crore migrant/unorganised sector workers registered on the E-shram portal. At stake is food security for a vulnerable section of the population as lakhs of workers registered on the portal do not have ration cards with which to acquire subsidised food. "Why could the verification not be completed in four months. This is too much. After four months