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Over 100 employees of Repos Energy donate salaries for the needy
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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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Poor suffering due to lockdown, hope govt comes out with plan to deal with
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday expressed hope that the government will formulate a strategy to address the problems being faced by the poor labourers due to the nationwide lockdown in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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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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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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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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Coronavirus: Sindh, PoK governments abandon Kashmiri migrant workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Apr 6 (ANI): Thousands of migrant workers from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) including daily wagers, factory workers and labourers are stuck in the Karachi city of Pakistan's Sindh province due to Coronavirus lock-down.
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WTC Chandigarh ensures safety and security of its workers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab)[India], Apr 6 (ANI/NewsVoir): The COVID-19 pandemic followed by lockdown in the country has left many migrants labourers with no food and shelter.
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Jaiveer Shergill burns 2 lamps, says will light 7 more if govt lives up to
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): As the nation expressed solidarity in the battle against COVID-19 by lighting diyas in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's '9pm9minute' call, Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill took a jibe at the Centre, saying that he will light more lamps when relief is
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