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'Don't have money to buy essential commodities': TN labourers protest in M
Updated : 5 years, 11 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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Ravi Shankar Prasad arranges ration for Bihar labourers stranded in Nagala
Updated : 5 years, 11 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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With no labourers due to lockdown, farmers in Ludhiana call for govt's hel
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 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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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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