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Coronavirus: FM announces Rs 1.7 lakh cr package for poor affected by lock
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharama on Thursday stated the government is planning to provide a relief package of Rs 1.7 lakh crore to the underprivileged, poor and migrant workers affected by the lockdown amid COVID-19 outbreak. The scheme has been named Pr
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Migrant workers go jobless and homeless due to lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 25 (ANI): As the country has been put under complete lockdown for 21 days, several migrants who had come to the national capital for job have now been left jobless and with no hope of returning back to their homes any time soon.
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Migrant workers in Delhi facing tough times due to lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 25 (ANI): Following the lockdown in the national capital in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, the migrant workers in the city are facing serious problems.
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Odisha CM announces special package for migrant workers
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Jan 15 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced a special package for migrant workers.
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CAA protest: Migrant labourers from West Bengal assaulted in Kerala
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], Dec 23 (ANI): Three migrant labourers from West Bengal were allegedly assaulted by four unidentified persons for taking part in a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, held at Nadapuram here on Sunday.
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Bengali migrant workers brought back from J-K look up to Mamata govt for j
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Bangaon (West Bengal) [India] Nov 8 (ANI): The migrant Bengali workers who were sent back from Jammu and Kashmir on Friday said their fate lies in the hand of Mamta Banerjee-led government.
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Migrant workers say will return to Kashmir if WB govt doesn't provide jobs
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
South Dinajpur (West Bengal) [India], Nov 5 (ANI): A total of 138 labourers who went to Jammu and Kashmir to earn a living were brought back to West Bengal after five workers from Murshidabad were killed by terrorists in the Valley last month.
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Dharmendra Pradhan thanks Jaishankar for rescuing migrant workers from Dub
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday thanked his cabinet colleague, S Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister, for his intervention in bringing back the stranded Odisha migrant workers from Dubai.
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Migrant workers stranded in Dubai return to India
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], Jun 25 (ANI): Nine of the ten migrant labourers from Odisha held captive by their employees in Dubai returned to India on Tuesday, while one would travel back to the country tomorrow, Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi has said.
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Issue advisory for not withholding passports of Indian workers by employer
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 2 (ANI): Concerned over the safety and security of the Indian migrant workers, the Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs has asked the government to take adequate steps to prevent their exploitation and harassment.
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Jignesh Mevani calls PM Modi 'Namak Haram'
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar), Oct 27 (ANI): Gujarat Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Jignesh Mevani has stoked a controversy by calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi Namak Haram (disloyal).
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Gujarat migrants 'exodus': Political blame game continues
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 10 (ANI): Political blame game between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continued on Wednesday on the issue of alleged exodus of migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar residing across Gujarat.
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