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Priyanka Gandhi urges Prime Minister, Home Minister to provide relief to m
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to provide immediate help in all forms, including transport, for the thousands of migrant workers who are fleeing Delhi and NCR regions to return
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Uncertain about their future, migrants begin journey on foot to homes in U
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): With a national lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak, scores of migrants here were seen heading back to their hometowns on foot to nearby districts in Uttar Pradesh.
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Hit by lockdown, daily wagers, migrants walk for days to reach their homes
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): With Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging people to remain indoors while announcing the 21-day countrywide lockdown earlier this week to combat COVID-19, daily wagers and migrants have been hit hard by this move and are trying to return to their native places
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4 Gujarat workers returning home after lockdown killed in accident
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Palghar (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Four migrant workers from Gujarat were killed after being hit by a tempo in Palghar while they were walking back to their villages about 600 km away following the nationwide lockdown
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After losing mother, youth begins journey on foot from Raipur to home in V
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): At a time when India is under 21-day lockdown in a bid to contain coronavirus spread, hundreds of migrant workers have started walking on foot to reach their homes as their factories and offices are closed.
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Appalling to see migrant workers plight: Shivakumar appeals authorities to
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief DK Shivakumar on Saturday appealed to the authorities to arrange transport for migrant workers, stating that it is appalling to see their plight as they are walking hundreds of kilometres to their
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Coronavirus lockdown: Migrants walk on foot, board buses at UP's Ghaziabad
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Hundreds of migrant workers reached Ghaziabad's Lal Kuan on Saturday after taking an arduous trek on foot through Delhi and Gurugram and other cities.
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'Walking for three days and yet miles to go before we can reach home'
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Ghaziabad/Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Several daily wage workers and migrant labourers who had once left their homes and moved to the national capital in search of work have been taking the arduous trek back to their villages since the 21 days countrywide lockdown was anno
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Andhra and Karnataka govts carry out joint quarantine operations for migra
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): The state governments of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka carried out a joint quarantine operation to help over a thousand migrant labourers from various districts of Andhra Pradesh.
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Many CMs requested me to look after people from their states, will take ca
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said that that the state government will take care of people who are fleeing to their native places amid nationwide lockdown and requested them to stay at their place.
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People moving towards home stopped by police at Delhi-UP border
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Police stopped people in large numbers late Friday evening who tried to cross the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur.
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PIL in SC seeks food, shelter for migrant workers, their families
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking food, water, shelter, medical aid and 'urgent indulgence to the plight of migrant workers and their families including women, kids, elders and Divyangs, who are walking on foot to their villages, amid COV
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