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'Don't have money to buy essential commodities': TN labourers protest in M
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Yagappa Nagar (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 12 (ANI): Daily wage labourers protest at MGR Street in Yagappa Nagar area, Madurai alleging they don't have enough money to buy essential commodities amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.
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Hydroxychloroquine not approved as anti-malarial drug in India, says Ipca
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 11 (ANI): The Joint Managing Director of Ipca Laboratories Ajit Kumar Jain on Saturday said that hydroxychloroquine is not approved as an anti-malarial drug in India.
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Ravi Shankar Prasad arranges ration for Bihar labourers stranded in Nagala
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Dimapur (Nagaland) [India], April 11 (ANI): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has come to the rescue of some labourers from Bihar's Purnea, who were stranded here due to lockdown.
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Plea in SC seeks modification of free COVID-19 tests order
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): A petition was on Saturday filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to modify its earlier order which had directed all the private laboratories to conduct free tests for COVID-19.
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PoK, Gilgit Baltistan unprepared to handle COVID-19 outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington/London (US/UK), April 11 (ANI): Lack of coronavirus testing laboratories, medical staff, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan are causes of major concern, say political activists even as the pandemic is set to flare u
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With no labourers due to lockdown, farmers in Ludhiana call for govt's hel
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], April 11 (ANI): Farmers in Ladian Kalan village of Ludhiana have urged the government for help as labourers are not coming to work due to COVID-19 lockdown.
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Over 100 employees of Repos Energy donate salaries for the needy
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], April 11 (ANI): Repos Energy, a door-to-door diesel delivery startup backed by Ratan Tata, has started a campaign to help people in distress due to the coronavirus outbreak with over 100 employees donating their entire month's salary for labourers and migrants.
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Coronavirus: Labourers' exodus hit medicine supply chain in Delhi
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): As scores of daily wage workers have moved back to their hometowns due to the spread of coronavirus, the impact of migration can be seen affecting the medicine distribution chain in the capital.
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COVID-19 : Govt extends life insurance cover to over 1 lakh FCI employees
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Food and Consumer Affairs Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday announced that more than one lakh Food Corporation of India (FCI) employees, including 80 thousand workers, have been given life insurance cover for a period of 6 months starting March 24, in th
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Adhir Chowdhury urges PM Modi to help migrant labourers reach their homes
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to arrange for ferrying migrant labourers to their home or at the nearest point from where their respective states would assure them a safe return
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Farmers in MP unable to harvest crops due to labour shortage
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 9 (ANI): Several farmers in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district are incurring losses as they are unable to harvest their crops due to shortage of labourers amid the nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown.
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Lockdown : Non-availability of labour hits crop harvesting in Haryana's Ro
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Rohtak (Haryana) [India], April 9 (ANI): Amid the lockdown in the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus, farmers here are facing trouble in the harvest season due to non-availability of labour.
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