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in NEWS2 Women Migrant Workers Give Birth While Returning To Odisha In Shramik Trains
Earlier, a 35-year-old woman from Odisha had delivered a baby boy (Representational) Bhubaneswar: Two women migrant workers gave birth while travelling to Odisha in separate trains on Sunday, officials said. A woman who was returning home in a Balangir-bound train gave birth to a baby girl, they said. When the Shramik Express from Kazipet in […] More
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in SPORTSDo India’s biggest sporting stars not feel the pain of migrant workers?
Cyclone Amphan, one of the fiercest storms to hit the eastern part of India, left a trail of misery with many losing their lives. As of 22 May, the death toll stood at 80 and is expected to rise in the coming time. The plight of people has moved many with condolences pouring in on […] More
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Farah Khan, Chef Vikas Khanna Organise Sanitary Pads For Female Migrant Workers
Farah Khan, who is observing self-isolation in Mumbai, and Vikas Khanna, currently residing in New York, had been discussing the plight of women migrant workers over the phone before taking the decision. IANS Updated:May 21, 2020, 12:45 PM IST credits – IANS Filmmaker Farah Khan Kunder and chef Vikas Khanna have collaborated to donate 72,000 […] More
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Congress’ list of buses for migrant workers contains vehicle registration numbers allotted to autorickshaws and cars, claims UP govt
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said the list of 1,000 buses offered by the Congress to ferry migrant workers contained registration numbers of two-wheelers and cars, fuelling a war of words between the two sides. The Congress, however, rejected the claim, challenging Yogi Adityanath’s government to conduct a “physical verification” of the buses. […] More
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Centre’s Revised Order On Migrant Trains Likely New Flashpoint With States
Coronavirus: Centre has said two million migrants have travelled in Shramik special trains New Delhi: The centre today issued a new standard operating protocol (SOP) to send home migrant workers between states. It has done away with state consent clause in its revised SOP. While issuing the revised SOP, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said […] More
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Pune Autorickshaw Driver is Using Money Saved for Wedding to Feed Migrant Labourers
Image for representation. (Reuters) With the help of his friends, he is using the money he saved for his wedding to prepare food for nearly 400 people every day. PTI Last Updated: May 19, 2020, 10:49 AM IST In a noble gesture, a 30-year-old auto-rickshaw driver, who saved Rs 2 lakh […] More
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Railways has subsidised 85% fare of special trains for migrant workers, states to pay remaining 15%, claims BJP
New Delhi: The BJP said on Monday the railways has subsidised 85 percent of ticket fare for special trains being run to transport migrant workers and the state government has to pay the remaining 15 percent, soon after the Congress attacked the central government over the issue. The state government concerned can also pay for […] More
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Migrant Labourer Walking Home Dies Of Starvation In Maharashtra: Cops
Thousands of migrant workers in India were forced to walk home amid the coronavirus lockdown (File) Aurangabad, Maharashtra: The decomposed body of a 40-year-old labourer, who worked as a sugarcane-cutter, was found on Monday in a village in Maharashtra’s Beed district, police said. The man, identified as Pintu Manohar Pawar, had set out on foot […] More
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Coronavirus Outbreak: Sonu Sood arranges more buses for migrant workers, says he will continue helping them
Sonu Sood says he is pained by the plight of migrant workers who are unable to go back home amid the nationwide lockdown and he will do everything he can to arrange for transport for them. On Saturday, Sonu arranged more buses for the migrant workers after obtaining special permissions from the government of Uttar […] More
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Uttar Pradesh govt accepts Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s offer to run 1,000 buses to bring migrant workers back home
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has accepted Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s proposal to run 1,000 buses to ferry migrant labourers back home to the state and sought the list of buses along with the names and other details of the drivers and conductors. “The offer made to the chief minister through the letter on […] More
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‘They will go die where there is life’: Gulzar writes poem on plight of migrant workers caught in COVID-19 lockdown; watch video here
Lyricist, writer and director Gulzar recently penned down a poem, which he released on his Fcebook page, capturing the plight of the migrant workers caught unawares in the lockdown. The migrant crisis has emerged as a humanitarian crisis while the nation has been under a lockdown since 25 March to contain the spread of the novel […] More
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in NEWSTop news of the day: PM Modi reviews response preparedness on Amphan cyclone; U.P. accepts Priyanka Gandhi’s offer of 1,000 buses to transport migrant workers, and more
India is expected to join over 60 countries at a two-day crucial conference of the World Health Organisation in Geneva in pushing for an “impartial, independent and comprehensive” evaluation of the global response mechanism to the COVID-19 crisis as well as to find out the “zoonotic source” of the deadly infection. Helpline numbers | Interactive […] More
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