 Hello and welcome to Daily Roundup, I am Samedha and on this episode of the Daily Roundup we give you a glimpse of some of the most important stories that we report about at NewsClick. The Indian Air Force pilot, Abhinandan, who was in Pakistan's custody, will be handed over to India through the Vaga border. The Pakistan government has specified that the wing commander is being released as a gesture of peace. Imran Khan, the Pakistani Prime Minister, announced the release of the pilot at a joint session of the parliament saying that this should be seen as a first step to open negotiations. India's pilot, we have captured him as a peace gesture, we have started to release him tomorrow. Whereas there have been repeated attempts from the neighbouring countries' Prime Minister to offer peace and to begin dialogue, both the countries have also witnessed the worst of media coverage in recent times. Following the Pulwama attack, the media in both the countries did not leave any stone unturned to create a warlike situation and to escalate the tensions among people. Hashtags such as revenge, Pakistan se badla and other similar hashtags have been seen as trending on social media platforms. But even in this situation, a sensible section of the people from both sides came together to give a message of staying no to war. In one such instance, journalists from Lahore Press Club came out in the support of Abhinandan and asked the government to release the wing commander immediately. Contemporary Indian society is currently under what can be best termed as modern slavery. Over 50 crore workers who are actually bonded are still alive and thriving in India under a system which is oppressive and exploitative of their poverty and their pains. Today in Delhi, some of these workers came forward to give out their testimonies of how they were released and also saved from being trafficked into other states under exploitative conditions. These workers have been promised certain wages were never even paid even half of those wages. The workers are then forced to live under the flyovers or to do begging in order to survive in the cities. Take a look at some of the testimonies that we found today. I am from Delhi. I have been working for four months now. My children are not eating anything. They are just giving me food in the shop. I am asking for food. My daughter is two years old. I am a very young man. Now I am working for four months and I am eating. I am not doing anything. I am going to school. My children are going to see me. I am going to see my children. I am going to see them. I am going to see them. I am going to come back. I am working for four months. I am going to stay on the same ground forever. approval to prosecute Kumar and others under the IPC section 124A which is a sedition charge. The Delhi government's council replied that it is still exploring legal angles on the issue. The Delhi police have charged the former JNU SU President Kanhaiya Kumar and JNU students Umar Khalid and Areeerbhan Bhattacharya for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during an event which was actually to mark the hanging of parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru. In international news, the Poor People's Campaign in the United States of America has announced a nationwide bus tour to highlight true emergencies in the states. The initiative will highlight the struggles and the emergencies afflicting the US's 140 million poor and low-income citizens. The tour will be launched in the month of March and will reach out to about 28 states. The tour is also being seen as a response to US President Donald Trump's declaration of state along the southern border. People's Campaign is an American anti-poverty campaign which demands federal and state living wage laws, equity in education, a single-pair healthcare system and other demands too. Reverend Theo Harris, the founder of the group Zed and I quote, instead of tackling the real emergencies of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and ecological devastation, the president is diverting funds to build a monument for white supremacy at our southern border. That's all that we have for you today on this episode of the Daily Roundup. To follow these stories and many more, log on to our website www.newsclick.in, subscribe to our channel on YouTube and follow us on Facebook. Thank you for watching.