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COVID-19 : Govt extends life insurance cover to over 1 lakh FCI employees
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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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CSIR-NCL innovates Digital IR Thermometer, OEU to assist in coronavirus mi
Updated : 5 years, 11 months 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 : 5 years, 11 months 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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BSF distributes ration to daily wage labourers in J-K's Pulwama amid lockd
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 8 (ANI): Continuing its efforts to help the needy during the nationwide lockdown, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday distributed ration and other essential items among daily wage labourers in Jammu and Kashmir's Pampore in the Pulwama dist
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Conduct COVID-19 test free of cost for all citizens : SC to Centre
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): In an interim direction to Centre on Wednesday Supreme Court said that tests related to COVID-19, whether in government laboratories or approved private labs shall be conducted free of cost for all citizens. The apex Court has asked Centre to immediately
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WTC Noida extends support to its workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India] April 8 (ANI/NewsVoir): The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the entire country at standstill and many migrant laborers are left with no food and shelter.
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Ben Stokes becomes first English player since 2005 to be named Wisden's Le
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 8 (ANI): All-rounder Ben Stokes on Wednesday became the first English cricketer since 2005 to be named as Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World.
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400 million Indian workers may sink into poverty due to COVID-19: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 8 (ANI): With 90 per cent of people working in India's informal economy, about 400 million workers are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the coronavirus crisis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.
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Karnataka CM directs authorities to provide aid to migrant labourer who di
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 8 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday condoled the death of a woman labourer who walked roughly over 200 kilometres from Bengaluru to get back to her home in Raichur district. He also directed authorities to provide relief to the
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