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4 killed, 15 migrant workers injured in bus-truck collision in Maharashtra
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Yavatmal (Maharashtra) [India], May 19 (ANI): Four migrant workers were killed and 15 others were injured after a bus they were travelling in crashed into a truck in Yavatmal on Tuesday morning.
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UP govt's demand of sending 1000 empty buses to Lucknow is inhumane: Congr
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's office on Tuesday termed the Uttar Pradesh government's 'demand of handing-over 1,000 buses' which Congress wants to ply for ferrying stranded migrant labourers, as not only a waste of time and resources but also an
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Migrants paying hefty amounts to travel back home from Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): As many as 110 buses bound for Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, and West Bengal were stationed at Delhi-Noida border to ferry migrants stranded in the national capital to their homes. However, the passengers rued that the ticket charges are dearer but they ha
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Priyanka Gandhi thanks UP CM for permission to run 1,000 buses for migrant
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday thanked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for permission to run 1000 buses to take migrant workers to their native places.
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Odisha to bear train fare of migrant workers if not borne by sending state
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 18 (ANI): The train fare of migrant labourers coming to Odisha will be borne by the state government if it is not borne by the sending state.
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Maharashtra CM says over 5 lakh migrants have been sent back to their Stat
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 18 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said that over five lakh migrants have been safely sent back to their native States by trains and buses and appealed to them to not walk on foot as 'trains and buses are being arranged for them'
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UP govt to provide water, food to migrant workers at state borders
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 18 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday ordered state officials to make arrangements for drinking water and food at state borders for the migrant labourers.
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Punjab CM urges PM to allow work under MGNREGS in rabi, kharif crop operat
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 18 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow labour/cardholders under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) work in farm operations for both Kharif and Rabi crop
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Priority will be accorded to migrant workers, pregnant women for return to
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): The Central government on Monday submitted before Delhi High Court that priority for evacuation to India will be accorded to migrant workers who have been laid off, short term visa holders faced with the expiry of visas, persons with medical emergency, pregna
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120 more trains will be ordered in next 2-3 days to bring back migrant lab
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 18 (ANI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said that the government will request for 120 more Shramik Special trains in the next few days to bring back migrant labourers and the state government will bear the train fares.
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Anil Vij asks Haryana DGP to ensure force not used against migrant workers
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ambala (Haryana) [India], May 18 (ANI): Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij has asked state DGP Manoj Yadav to ensure that lathi-charge or force is not used on migrant workers and senior officials should visit the spot and resolve the situation if there was a need.
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`800 Shramik special trains approved for UP, West Bengal has given nod to
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh government has given approval to nearly 800 Shramik special trains for migrants labourers while West Bengal government has given nod to only 19 trains so far, Railway Ministry sources said, noting that "states blocking trains" was harming mig
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