Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 15 (ANI): Over the Centre's remark that Jharkhand has not provided approval for enough 'Shramik Special trains', Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday said that the BJP and the Centre have a habit of playing politics over everything.
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 15 (ANI): Over 1,000 persons including students and migrant workers from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, who were stranded in Punjab, were brought back by a special train today.
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Amid COVID-19 lockdown, Union Minister and BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday lashed out at the Congress and said that it should be sensitive towards issues being faced by migrant labourers.
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Scores of migrant workers queued up outside a COVID-19 screening centre in the Gole Market area on Friday to secure a medical certificate in order to return to their homes via special trains.
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal government to allow 105 trains every day for migrant labourers, and not in 30 days.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 14 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Thursday welcomed the announcements made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today, stating these are dedicated to small farmers, poor, migrant labourers and street vendors.
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that his party will raise voices of migrant labourers and ensure they get help as their livelihood was adversely impacted due to coronavirus-induced lockdown.
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday hit out the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying the West Bengal government was accepting only 105 trains in a month for migrant labourers stranded in other states while the state needs 105 trains daily a
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 14 (ANI): As uncertainty looms over his work due to coronavirus-lockdown and no signs of hope in the near future, a daily wage labourer in Delhi packed his belongings about a fortnight ago and started walking towards his home in Bihar's Katihar.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 14 (ANI): Over 1,000 stranded migrant labourers gathered at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Kurla in Mumbai seeking to board trains for their home States, on Thursday.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over the death of eight migrant labourers in Madhya Pradesh's Guna after the truck they were travelling in collided with a bus. He also offered condolences over deaths of six mi