Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): Amid the measures taken to curb the surging infection rates related to COVID-19, the Pakistan government has started preparing to tackle the issue of desert locust which, if not controlled, will endanger food security in the country.
Chandigarh [India], May 4 (ANI): The Haryana government is making transportation arrangements for the safe return of all the stranded agricultural and migrant labourers in the state to their respective states at the earliest, as per the Chief Minister's Office (CMO).
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has said that the free bus service for migrant workers has been extended by two days in the state.
New Delhi [India] May 4 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday hit out at the Centre asking that if the government can bring back Indians stranded overseas through air, free of cost, then why cannot it give free rail travel facility to labourers amid lockdown.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): Indian women's hockey team has raised Rs 20 lakh through an 18-day fitness challenge in an attempt to help the poor and migrant workers, whose livelihood has been affected due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): The sound of hammers striking hot iron, drilling and breaking of boulders emanated as construction on the stalled government projects resumed on Monday on Bishnu Dutt Marg in the heart of national capital.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): The Indian Railways has said that it is charging only standard fare in Shramik special trains from State Governments, which is just 15 per cent of the total cost incurred by Railways.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Monday urged Pradesh Congress Committees to mobilise all possible local resources to help migrant workers purchase train tickets to get back to their homes as the COVID-19 lockdown has been extended till May 17.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday hit out at the Central government for charging migrant workers for rail travel during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): Migrant workers stranded in different parts of Karnataka arrived in buses at Central Bus Stand in Kalaburagi on Monday morning and are being sent to their home towns.
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that her party will bear the cost for rail travel of every needy migrant worker and labourer to their respective home towns during the lockdown.
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 4 (ANI): A special train, carrying 1,200 migrant workers who were stranded in Gujarat's Sabarmati amid the coronavirus lockdown, reached Kanpur on Sunday.