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Several migrant workers gathered outside Chennai Central Railway Station t
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 17 (ANI): Scores of migrant labourers gathered outside Chennai Central Railway Station on Sunday after receiving the information that the government is running Shramik Special trains for their home states.
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UP minister tears into Priyanka over migrant issue, says she is doing 'pet
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 17 (ANI): State Minister Sidharth Nath Singh on Sunday said that Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is doing petty politics by trying to make political capital of the migrant issue and that her demand to send buses to Uttar Pradesh border displays her
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AP CM directs officials to bring home-bound migrant labourers to relief ce
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 17 (ANI): Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy on Sunday directed the state officials to arrange buses for the home-bound migrant labourers and take them to the nearest relief centres which will take care for their further journey.
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'Is it not dramebaazi?': Nirmala Sitharaman's takedown of Rahul's meeting
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday equated the interaction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with migrant workers on Saturday, with 'dramebaazi', and urged the prime opposition party in the country to behave more responsibly in its statements and
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Migrant workers continue to travel by trucks, bicycle to their home states
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Nagpur/Ludhiana [India], May 17 (ANI): Migrant labourers from Nagpur and Ludhiana have are moving on their own by any means of transport they could find to reach their native home amid COVID-19 lockdown on Sunday.
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Railways operated over 160 Shramik Special trains and ferried 2.39 Lakh mi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Indian Railways has operated more than 160 Shramik Special trains on Saturday for inter-state movement of migrant workers.
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Migrant labourers injured in road accident in West Bengal
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) [India], May 17 (ANI): Over 30 migrant labourers injured after their bus in which they were traveling met with an accident near Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district on Sunday.
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Migrant workers demanding trains for return to Bihar take to streets in Sa
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 17 (ANI): Worried by uncertainty over the availability of trains to enable their return to their native places in Bihar, thousands of migrant workers took to the streets and started walking on the Saharanpur-Ambala highway on Sunday morning.
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Kapil Sibal urges judiciary to seek answers on the plight of migrant worke
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday urged the judiciary to take note and seek answers regarding the hardships being faced by migrant workers, as they strive to return to their native places.
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Police lathi-charge migrant labourers in Andhra Pradesh
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 17 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Police lathi-charged migrant labourers after they tried to leave shelter home and started to move towards their native states on Saturday.
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Migrant labourers gather at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border amid lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): A large number of migrant labourers who were walking down to their native states, gathered in Gazipur at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border amid COVID-19 lockdown on Sunday.
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Migrant workers returning to native places face hurdle at Delhi-UP border
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Migrant workers headed on foot towards their native places in different parts of Uttar Pradesh hit a hurdle at Ghazipur near the Delhi-UP border late on Saturday night.
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