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Migrant worker wheels his pregnant wife, toddler on makeshift cart from Hy
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), May 15 (ANI) A migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh who found himself stranded in Hyderabad during the lockdown managed to get back home walking around 700 kilometres, wheeling along with his pregnant wife and daughter on a makeshift wooden cart for the most part of th
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Health Ministry issues guidelines for RT-PCR pool testing
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) on Thursday issued guideline for RT-PCR based pooled sampling for migrants and those returning from abroad and kept in quarantine facilities.
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For some migrant workers, reaching home is still a tough task
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Even as the government has started Shramik special trains to take migrant workers to their homes, there are workers who are finding difficulty in reaching their native places in other states.
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NHRC issues notice to Maha, MP over reports of pregnant migrant woman givi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of reports that a pregnant migrant woman, who was walking on foot from Maharashtra to Madhya Pradesh, delivered her baby on road.
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West Bengal govt should allow 105 'Shramik special trains' daily: Piyush G
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal government to allow 105 trains every day for migrant labourers, and not in 30 days.
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Economic package announcements show PM's sensitivity towards poor: Nadda
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda on Thursday welcomed the announcements made by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the benefit of migrant workers.
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Today's announcements by Finance Minister will benefit farmers, labourers,
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 14 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Thursday welcomed the announcements made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today, stating these are dedicated to small farmers, poor, migrant labourers and street vendors.
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Rahul Gandhi tweets heart-wrenching video of labourers, says will ensure t
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that his party will raise voices of migrant labourers and ensure they get help as their livelihood was adversely impacted due to coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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44 'Shramik Special' trains brought back over 50,000 migrant workers to Jh
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 14 (ANI): Jharkhand State Transport Secretary K Ravi Kumar on Thursday informed that 44 'Shramik Special' trains have brought back 50,028 migrant workers, who were stranded in different states due to lockdown, to their native place here.
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Govt resorting to headline management, has turned blind eye to problems of
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Thursday alleged that the central government has turned "a blind eye" to problems of the poor and migrants and was resorting to headline management.
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Piyush Goyal hits out at Mamata, says West Bengal needs 105 trains per da
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday hit out the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying the West Bengal government was accepting only 105 trains in a month for migrant labourers stranded in other states while the state needs 105 trains daily a
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UP CM hails FM's announcement for migrants, farmers
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 14 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday hailed Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement on the 'One Nation One Ration Card', free food grain supply to migrants and creation of affordable rental housing complexes (ARHC
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