Migrant workers
- India
3 rescued, 10 missing in J&K highway tunnel collapse
Jammu: Ten labourers were still missing while three were rescued on Friday in the tunnel collapse accident on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Ramban district. Police sources said around ten…
- Hyderabad
Watch: Lone survivor of Hyderabad fire tragedy escapes to safety
Hyderabad: Days after the Bhoiguda scrap godown tragedy of March 23, that claimed 11 lives, CCTV footage of the lone survivor surfaced on social media. In the footage, Prem can be seen…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad fire mishap: PM Modi announces 2 lakh ex gratia to fire victims
Hyderabad: Eleven migrant workers from Bihar were charred to death due to a major fire mishap in Secunderabad. As per the details of the incident, the fire broke out at a scrap…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 11 migrant workers killed in major fire accident
Hyderabad: Eleven migrant workers were charred to death in a major fire accident at a scrap godown here in the early hours of Wednesday. The deceased workers, all hailing from Bihar, were…
- Middle East
1.68 lakh expats left Kuwait labour market in 2021, Indians top list
Kuwait: More than 168,000 expatriates have left the Kuwait labour market in the first nine months of 2021 with Indians topping the list, local media reported on Wednesday. Among 168,000 expatriates, those…
- India
SC to consider hearing plea seeking food, welfare measures for migrant workers
New Delhi: The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, said it would consider listing for hearing the fresh plea of activists seeking implementation of an earlier order on ensuring food security and other welfare measures…
- India
Tamil Nadu: Migrant worker dies of torture, 2 cops suspended
A migrant worker in Tamil Nadu’s Chithirai Chavadi due to alleged negligence of the Alamdurai police. The incident took place late in the intervening night of January 11 and 12, wherein a…
- Middle East
45% Middle East returnees faced job losses: Survey
Thiruvananthapuram: A survey conducted among those from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, who were working in the Middle East, and returned to the country through the repatriation mission when Covid-19 pandemic stuck the world…
- Telangana
Telangana CS held meeting with labour dept, district collectors
Hyderabad: Telangana chief secretary on Saturday held separate meetings with the officials of labour department and district collectors of the state. Telangana minister directs officials to prepare an action plan for the…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh: 1 dead, 8 missing after boat capsizes in Sileru river
Visakhapatnam: A child drowned and at least eight people went missing after a boat capsized in Sileru River in Vishapatnam’s Chitrakonda Police station limits along the Odisha- Andhra Pradesh border in the…
- Hyderabad
Impact of lockdown in Telangana: Migrants start leaving Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Migrant workers started leaving Hyderabad as a 10-day lockdown has come into force in Telangana. They were seen at railway and bus stations in the city. According to a report in…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Night curfew instills fear of lockdown among migrant workers
Hyderabad: The fears of the last year’s statewide lockdown have returned to haunt the migrant workers in Telangana. Migrant workers are leaving Hyderabad as they fear the reimposition of a lockdown in the…
- Hyderabad
Record number of Aadhaar Cards issued in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The city witnessed a record in the issuance of Aadhaar cards which are more than the actual population. The increase in the issuance of the Aadhaar card is due to the…
- India
Delhi LG urges migrant workers not to leave city due to lockdown
New Delhi: Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday appealed to migrant workers not to leave the city in the wake of lockdown against COVID-19 and said the government will take care…
- India
COVID-19: Priyanka Gandhi urges Centre to provide monetary help to poor
New Delhi : Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday urged the Central government to provide momentary help to the poor, labourers and street vendors. “Seeing the horrors of COVID-19, it…
