Since there are no data on the deaths of migrant workers from COVID-19, the question of compensation “does not arise,” India’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Santosh Gangwar, told parliament. This has sparked harsh reactions by opposition parties and civil society groups.
Against this backdrop, internal migrants are the group that suffered the most. The labour minister admitted that more than 10 million migrants have returned to their places of origin.

Pope Reappoints Archbishop George Antonysamy to Vatican Dicastery
Pope Leo XIV has reappointed Archbishop George Antonysamy of Madras-Mylapore as a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization, one of the Vatican’s most important departments


