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Relief operation underway, inquiry ordered in Aurangabad train accident: P
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday expressed grief over the death of 16 migrant workers, who were run over early this morning by a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad, and said relief work is underway and an inquiry has been ordered.
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Nepalese migrant workers at Hyderabad seek govt's help amid lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 7 (ANI): Nepalese migrant labourers working in Telangana's Hyderabad are struggling to make both ends meet amid the coronavirus lockdown, they have urged the State Government to provide them with all the possible assistance so they can survive.
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Yogi Adityanath directs officials to prepare extensive action plan for em
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 7 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to prepare an extensive action plan for the employment of migrants.
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Ensure migrants test negative for COVID-19 before boarding conveyance: Ori
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Cuttack (Odisha) [India], May 7 (ANI): Orissa High Court on Thursday asked the state govenrment to ensure that all the migrants, queued to return to Odisha, are tested negative for coronavirus before boarding the conveyance to the state.
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'What choice do we have'; Migrants workers in Mumbai set off on long walks
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 7 (ANI): With little or no money left in their pockets and no earning opportunities in the city, hundreds of migrant workers in Mumbai and nearby areas are setting off on long walks to their native villages hundreds of kilometres away.
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Kerala Police resort to lathi-charge to disperse protesting migrant worker
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ernakulam (Kerala) [India], May 7 (ANI): Kerala Police resorted to mild lathi-charge in Koothattukulam area of Ernakulam District on Thursday to disperse migrant labourers who were holding a demonstration demanding that they be sent back to their native places.
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Maharashtra Cong has borne travel cost of 4,627 migrant workers: Thorat
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 7 (ANI): Maharashtra Congress said that it has borne the cost of travel of as many as 4,627 migrant workers returning to their states from different parts of Maharashtra.
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First special train for stranded workers of Madhya Pradesh to leave from D
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): The first special train for migrant workers stranded in the national capital will leave for Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, said a Delhi government official.
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Manipur govt to pay for return of state's residents stranded in other part
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India], May 7 (ANI): Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has said that his government will pay for the return journey of the state's residents stranded in other parts of the country amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Migrant labourers in Vizag protest demanding payment of salary for April b
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Vizag (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 7 (ANI): As several states have started receiving and sending the stranded people to their native states, a group of migrant workers of HPCL refinery in Vizag's Pedagantyada staged a protest demanding payment of their salary for April at first.
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Goa govt provides land for setting up IIT campus in state, informs CM Pram
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 6 (ANI): The Goa government on Wednesday formally transferred 10 lakh square metres of land in Guleli village in North Goa, for setting up of Indian Institute of Technology Goa (IIT-Goa), Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said at a press conference.
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Andhra Pradesh Govt to bear travel expenses of migrants
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 6 (ANI): Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has decided that the Government will be paying for the travel of all the migrant workers who were accommodated in relief centres setup across the state ever since the lockdown was imposed and wish to return
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