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India
No seats on bus, train; migrant workers return to Surat on flight
Surat: It was my first air journey, said an excited Satish Soni, a migrant worker who returned to Gujarat’s Surat to join his job back. As he was not getting bus or train…
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Telangana
Over 37,000 migrant workers return back to Telangana in search of work
Hyderabad: Amid COVID–19 pandemic as many as three lakh migrants have waved off from the city back to their home town which they felt was more secured. Furthermore, the immigration…
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Sonu Sood now offers accommodation to 20,000 migrant workers
New Delhi: Actor Sonu Sood who had earlier launched a job portal ‘Pravasi Rojgar‘ to help migrant labourers, on Monday said he will also be offering accommodation to the 20,000 workers…
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Odisha Migrant-worker-turned rapper trends for his lockdown raps
Kalahandi: Duleshwar Tandi aka Rapper Dule Rocker has been trending on social media with searing lockdown raps. The lyrics talk about the plight of migrant workers during the COVID-19 crisis.…
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Migrant labourers falling prey to tiger attacks in Sunderban
Kolkata: Prashanta Mondal of Chargheri village in Sunderban’s Gosaba went into the dense mangrove forests on Sunday (Aug 2) to catch fish and crabs with other villagers. He was a migrant…
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Two-thirds of migrants have returned to cities or wish to do so: Survey
New Delhi: Nearly two-thirds of migrant workers who had left for their homes due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown have either returned to cities or wish to do so in the…
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India
Migrants denied entry in Bengal village, living in forest
Kolkata: As many as 13 migrant workers who came to their native village in West Bengal’s Bankura district were denied entry at the quarantine centre by the locals. As a…
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Rahmath Group offers selfless-service to the migrant workers
M A Siraj Bengaluru City Railway Station has witnessed departure of 231 Shramik Expresses between May 3 and July 3 carrying nearly 350,000 migrant labourers to their hometowns. These labourers…
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Crime
Migrant labourer commits suicide in UP
Banda: A migrant labourer who recently returned from Surat allegedly committed suicide in Amlohara village here, police said on Saturday. Mani Shankar Mishra (35) killed himself by hanging from the…
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Crime
Migrant labourer commits suicide due to financial woes
Chitrkoot: A migrant labourer, who returned from Surat about three months ago, allegedly committed suicide as he did not have money for his wife’s treatment, police said on Friday. Shiv…
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India
Elderly migrant labourer dies in UP after returning from Punjab
Banda: A 60-year-old migrant labourer who was returning from Punjab where he worked in a brick kiln died near his native village under Naraini police station area here, police said…
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Run more Shramik trains with less bogies for migrants: HC
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday directed the state labour department to take the responsibility of sending all the willing migrant workers to their hometowns. More number of Shramik…
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India
C’garh CM says returnee migrants to get jobs in power firms
Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government will try to provide employment to migrant labourers who have returned from other states due to the lockdown, in state-run power companies depending on their skills,…
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Photos: Migrants make footpath their home
Hyderabad: Migrants make footpath their home as they don’t have enough money to purchase train tickets to return their native places, at Secunderabad railway station on Tuesday. (Photo: Laeeq)
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Hyderabadis serve over 2 lakh migrant workers on NH
Hyderabad: ‘Food is the universal thing that has the power to unite everyone, no matter what religion or culture they behold’ this saying of Guy Fieri was the sight at Medchal…
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India
35 migrants injured as bus falls into ditch in UP
Etawah: At least 35 migrant labourers were injured, 10 of them seriously, when a bus carrying them from Rajasthan to Hamirpur fell into a ditch, police said on Friday. The…
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Purzon ki Purzour Pukar!
Khalid Noor Mohammed Hum they bus inke liye ek purza magarJab rukee machine inki, tho hum ho gaye be ghar. Bhatak rahe hain hum dagar, dagar;Jin shahr ko, nagar ko…
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Bengal CM urges Centre to give Rs 10,000 each to migrants
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday appealed to the central government to provide one-time assistance of Rs 10,000 each to migrant labourers and others in the unorganised…
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Cry, my beloved country
Mohammad Wajihuddin My heart sank as I saw the viral video of a toddler tugging at the bed sheet shrouding his dead mother at Muzaffarpur railway station. The child is…
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India
Migrant worker’s body found near quarantine centre in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: A migrant worker, who had returned from Mumbai recently, was found dead near a quarantine centre in Odisha’s Cuttack district, police said on Monday. The deceased was identified as…
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Hyderabad News
Migrant worker returning to Bengal from Hyderabad on foot dies
Balasore: A 60-year-old migrant worker, on his way to West Bengal from Hyderabad on foot in a desperate attempt to reach home, died near Soro in Odisha’s Balasore district on…
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Entertainment
Big B sponsors 10 buses for UP migrants
Mumbai: Moved by the plight of stranded migrants, Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan has come forward to contribute his mite to their cause. After the Friday afternoon ‘namaz’, a fleet of…
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Migrant worker found eating dead dog near Jaipur
Jaipur: India’s Covid-19 lockdown has turned into one of the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times, with millions of migrant workers stranded in cities across India battling hunger. A video…
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Warangal: 9 migrant workers found dead in well
Hyderabad: In a tragic incident of suicide, nine migrant workers belonging to West Bengal and Bihar were found dead in an agricultural well at Gorrekunta village in Geesukonda mandal in…
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Migrants hurl stones at police in Ahmedabad; 100 detained
Ahmedabad: Nearly 100 migrant workers gathered on a busy road connecting IIM Ahmedabad with Vastrapur area here on Monday and hurled stones at police and vehicles passing by while demanding that…
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Migrant workers break through the barricades in UP
New Delhi: Yesterday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had ordered district officials to stop the entry of migrants and their families coming on foot, cycles or trucks, they were also told to…
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India
Auto driver uses money saved for wedding to feed migrants
Pune: In a novel gesture, a 30-year-old auto-rickshaw driver, who saved Rs 2 lakh for his marriage but postponed the ceremony due to the lockdown, is now using the money…
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Crime
11 migrant labourers injured in accident in UP
Gorakhpur: Eleven migrant labourers travelling from Himachal Pradesh to Bihar were injured after their bus was hit by a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district on Sunday, police said.…
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India
Photos: Migrant Crisis in India
New Delhi: Children rest on their bags as migrants gather to cross the Delhi-UP border to reach their native places, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in New Delhi, Sunday, May…
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India
Centre, state govt failed to deal with migrant crisis: Chavan
Pune: Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday said both the Centre and the state government had failed in their responsibility to send migrant labourers back to their home states.…
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