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Hyderabad: Double PG teachers turn labourers amid pandemic
HYDERABAD: A double post-graduate teacher for 12 years in private institutions and his wife turn into labourers in Hyderabad, The Times of India has reported. Chiranjeevi K, who, holds three degrees –…
- Featured News
Stories of labour hanging between hunger, hope and gloom
Shaheen Nazar Santosh is a street vendor who used to sell bananas in Bhangel, a small semi-urban neighbourhood in UP’s Noida. But that was his story until the lockdown was…
- Delhi
Welfare Party of India condemns rolling back of labour laws
New Delhi: The Welfare Party of India strongly condemned the rolling back of labour laws and undermining workers’ right to attract investors. National President of Welfare Party of India, Dr…
- Crime and Accident
Truck carrying labourers overturns in MP, 5 dead
Narsinghpur:Â Five labourers died and 11 others sustained injuries after the truck they were travelling in overturned in Khap village in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh in the intervening night of…
- India
MP labourer couple quarantined in toilet
Guna: A labourer couple was quarantined and reportedly served their meal in a school toilet on Sunday in Madhya Pradesh’s Raghogarh district. A photograph of the couple went showed the…
- Kashmir
3,000 more labourers brought back from other states: J-K admin
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday brought back its 3,000 labourers stranded in other parts of the country due to the coronavirus lockdown, official said. Over 20,000 migrants…
- India
‘The Great Escape’ by 225 migrants in containers from TS to Raj
MUMBAI: In the current ‘national lockdown’, a group of around 225 migrants – including a lone young woman and her two minor kids – pulled off a daring escape from…
- Crime in Hyderabad
12 killed in truck-auto collision in Telangana
Hyderabad:Twelve labourers were killed and six others injured when a truck hit an overcrowded autorickshaw in Telangana’s Mahabubnagar district on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred near Kothapalle village in…
- Crime and Accident
Two killed, 12 hurt in blast at Ludhiana iron furnace unit
Ludhiana: Two labourers were killed and 12 others injured in a blast in an iron furnace unit in Punjab’s Ludhiana town, police said. The injured, most of them migrant workers,…
- Crime and Accident
Maoists set vehicles ablaze in Jharkhand
Ranchi: Maoists on Friday set ablaze 16 vehicles at a railway siding and also assaulted six labourers in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, according to police. The Maoists who carried out the…
- Crime and Accident
Toddler dies after falling from school building
New Delhi: A toddler died after falling off the roof of a private school where his labourer parents were working, police said on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as…
- India
Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia announced; 3-member team to probe Pune wall collapse
Mumbai: An ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh was announced for the victims and a three-member team has been formed to probe the wall collapse incident which claimed 15 lives in…
- Middle East
Migrant workers stranded in Dubai return to India
Dubai [UAE]: Nine of the ten migrant labourers from Odisha held captive by their employees in Dubai returned to India on Tuesday, while the last worker will reach tomorrow, Indian…
- Kashmir
Jammu: Massive fire razes shanties of labourers, Rohingyas
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir): Nearly 150 shanties, including 41 of Rohingya refugees, were gutted in a massive fire in Jammu in the early hours of Monday. The cluster, located at…
- Crime in Hyderabad
10 labourers buried under mound of clay in Telangana
Hyderabad:At least 10 labourers were killed when a mound of clay fell on them during digging works in Telangana’s Narayanpet district on Wednesday, police said. Five others, employed under the…
- Crime and Accident
Three labourers rescued from a pit in Gurugram
Gurugram: Three labourers were on Monday rescued from a pit which they had dug to install electric cable at city’s Sector 38, near Medanta Medicity hospital. The three were identified…
- Crime and Accident
2 labourers die, 3 others injured in factory wall collapse
New Delhi: Two labourers died while three others were injured on Thursday after a wall of an aluminium factory collapsed in east Delhi, police said. The incident occurred around noon…
- Crime and Accident
Three labourers electrocuted in UP
Bareilly: Three persons were electrocuted in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday while laying cable wires of a private telephony company, police said. The daily-wagers were laying cables for…
