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Delhi's migrant worker populace longs to return home, even as work resumes
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): Despite all assurances and appeals by the state government, urging the migrant workers not to leave national capital as the work resumed amidst the lockdown, the workers stranded here are longing to go back to their native places through 'Sharmik' special tra
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Plea in SC seeking directions for safe return of migrant workers in Mumbai
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to authorities to ensure that migrant workers stranded in Mumbai due to coronavirus are safely transported to their homes in an "humane" manner.
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Congress leaders seek details of special economic package but speak in dif
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Congress leaders on Tuesday said they will await details of special economic package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi but spoke on in different voices on the announcement itself with party leader Anand Sharma welcoming it while another party leader R
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India deeply disappointed by your utter lack of empathy, failure to addres
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation on Tuesday in which he announced Rs 20 lakh crore special economic package for the country to be self-reliant, Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said that "India is deeply disappointed b
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Rahul urges PM Modi to transfer Rs 7,500 in accounts of migrant labourers
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Minutes before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address the nation on Tuesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi urged him to directly transfer at least Rs 7,500 to the accounts of migrant labourers to support them during COVID-19 crisis.
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Andhra Pradesh has conducted highest number of tests per million: State He
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Health Secretary Dr Jawahar Reddy on Tuesday said that the state is on top spot as far as the number of COVID-19 tests per million goes, followed by Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.
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Red zones in WB to be divided into 3 categories: Mamata
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 12 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that the red zones in the state will be broken into three categories but added that no changes will be imposed on containment zones.
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Sixth special train with over 1000 migrants leaves for Bihar from Punjab
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
SAS Nagar (Punjab) [India], May 12 (ANI): Providing relief to hundreds of migrant workers, the sixth Shramik special train carrying 1,201 workers, who were stranded due to the lockdown, left from SAS Nagar Mohali railway station to Bihar's Chhapra city on Tuesday.
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233 trains brought 2,81,408 migrant workers to UP so far: Awanish Awasthi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi on Tuesday said that 233 trains have brought 2,81,408 migrant workers to the state so far.
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Migrant workers allowed to go to UP after being stopped at Maharashtra-Ma
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Barwani (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): Migrant workers belonging to Uttar Pradesh, who protested after being stopped on Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border here on Tuesday, were later allowed to go to their home state after buses were arranged for them by the administration.
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Bihar govt worried about spike in COVID-19 cases as migrant workers return
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 12 (ANI): The fears of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that the return of migrant workers could lead to increase in COVID-19 cases in Bihar seem to be coming true with 148 of them testing positive in the first few days itself.
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Over 1300 migrant labourers board Shramik Special train for Maharashtra fr
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): Providing relief to migrant workers, a Shramik train carrying 1,342 migrant labourers, who were stranded after the lockdown, left for Maharashtra, from Mangalagiri railway station on Tuesday.
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