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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The migrant’s photo while crying on the roadside in Delhi was shared widely on social media. (File) New Delhi: A migrant worker, whose photo while crying on the roadside in Delhi amid the nation-wide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic was shared widely , has been shifted to a hospital in Begusarai district of Bihar, […] More
One worker died in the truck after which the truck driver left the body on the road, said an official. Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh): A truck driver left the body of a migrant worker along with his three minor children on the roadside amid nationwide lockdown in Karera area in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, Karera Tehsildar […] More
Railways issued tickets to 1,608 people for travelling by the Shramik Special train (Representational) Kolkata: The first Shramik Special train from West Bengal left for Rajasthan’s Bikaner on Sunday, while a train carrying stranded migrants from Maharashtra reached Howrah station, a South Eastern Railway official said. The 24-coach train carrying stranded people from Rajasthan left […] More
Yakoob is seen calling for help as Amrit lies on his lap. Bhopal: A moving picture of a migrant worker — visibly sick due to the gruelling journey to reach to his home in Uttar Pradesh — lying on the lap of his friend by the side of a road in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district as […] More
Two sisters have been providing comic relief stranded migrant workers in Delhi’s shelter homes | Image credit: Reuters Agarwal, a 34-year-old sociologist by training, and her sister Khushboo, an activist, performed their act at a makeshift shelter in New Delhi housing some 650 people. Reuters Last Updated: May 15, 2020, 4:39 PM IST […] More
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