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Ravi Shankar Prasad arranges ration for Bihar labourers stranded in Nagala
Updated : 6 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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CSIR-NCL innovates Digital IR Thermometer, OEU to assist in coronavirus mi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], April 9 (ANI): The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune on Thursday announced two innovations -- Digital IR Thermometer and oxygen enrichment unit -- that can help in the mitigation of the coronavirus ou
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Over 84,000 workers received relief amid COVID-19 in Chhattisgarh, says st
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 9 (ANI): Over 84,000 labourers from Chhattisgarh and outside the state have received relief, including the facility of salary advance, food, accommodation and medical treatment, under the initiative launched on the directions of state Chief Minister Bhupe
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