New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): Thousands of migrant workers and daily wage labourers stranded away from their homes and families in cities like Delhi amid lockdown are spending their time sleeping in parks and lining up for food at relief camps and government schools.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 17 (ANI): Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Friday said that till now about 51,000 samples have been tested for coronavirus in the state.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 17 (ANI): Police here stopped a lorry carrying 80 migrant workers back to their native place in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.
Panaji (Goa) [India], April 17 (ANI): The Crime Branch and ATS teams of Goa Police department are reaching out to the stranded migrant labourers in different parts of the state and providing them with free ration, the police said.
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 16 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh has started conducting 1200 tests for coronavirus every day and samples are being sent to Delhi and Uttar Pradesh's Noida for testing, said State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday.
Surajpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 16 (ANI): The Surajpur district administration celebrated the birthday of a child named Vikas, who is living in a relief camp for stranded people and migrant labourers being run by the Chhattisgarh government.
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): Affordable housing will be the most affected due to countrywide lockdown imposed to arrest the spread of COVID-19, a cross-section of industry experts said on Thursday.
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): Construction projects worth more than Rs 59 lakh crore are under development across the country and most of them have been impacted severely by COVID-19, global professional services firm KPMG has said.
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], April 16 (ANI): To ensure that the labourers and migrant workers can earn a livelihood once the lockdown is over, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation has started an initiative to introduce skill-based training among beggars and the homeless in the city.
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): In a bid to survive during the lockdown many migrant labourers in Delhi's Janakpuri, who were employed in the transport sector or factories, have now started selling vegetables and fruits.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 15 (ANI): A TV journalist has been arrested for spreading misinformation about trains that led to huge gathering of migrant labourers outside the Bandra railway station on Tuesday.
New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): The Labour Ministry on Wednesday said that the due date for filing of Electronic Challan-cum-Return (ECR) for wage month March 2020 has been extended up to May 15 for employers who have paid wages to their employees for March 2020 in view of the prevailin