New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): More than 21 lakh passengers have reached their native places in 1,595 "Shramik Special" trains which have been operationalized so far from various states across the country, the government said on Tuesday.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 19 (ANI): An FIR has been registered against Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's personal secretary Sandeep Singh and party's Uttar Pradesh chief Ajay Kumar Lallu in Hazratganj Police station of Lucknow on Tuesday, police said.
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, offering to deploy 300 buses at borders of the national capital to ferry back migrant workers to their respective states.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 19 (ANI): The list of 1,049 vehicles furnished by Congress to take migrant workers to their homes in UP includes 31 "autos/three-wheelers", 69 "other" vehicles including school buses, according to a communication from a UP government official to Luckno
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 19 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary Home, Avnish Awasthi, has informed that to date 656 trains have reached the state bringing around 8,52,000 migrant workers.
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said that Congress has exposed itself by showing buses on the television screen, instead of deploying them on the ground to ferry migrant workers.
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of opposition parties on May 22 on the coronavirus crisis and the large movement of migrant labourers to their native states, sources said.
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Congress national spokesperson PL Punia on Tuesday urged Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government to allow the Congress party to ferry migrant workers stranded on Delhi-UP border to their homes in the state.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 19 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Sidharth Nath Singh on Tuesday said that the list of buses given by the Congress to ferry migrant workers to their homes consist of many two-wheelers, autos and goods carriers.
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Congress leader Jitin Prasada on Tuesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for being "insensitive" at a time of unprecedented crisis by asking party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to provide the list of buses at 10 am.
Hubli (Karnataka) [India], May 19 (ANI): South Western Railway (SWR) on Tuesday informed that a total of 10 Shramik specials will leave Karnataka ferrying migrant workers, students and others back to their homes amid the lockdown.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 19 (ANI): A huge crowd of migrant workers gathered outside the Bandra railway station here on Tuesday to board a Shramik special train to Bihar amid the COVID-19 lockdown.