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Violence against smuggled migrants widespread: UN report
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], June 29 (ANI): A UN report published on Monday highlighted that migrants smuggled across borders are often subjected to extreme violence, torture, rape and kidnapping, whether in transit or in captivity, but authorities take little action to address these offences.
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Alia Bhatt gets nostalgic as 'Udta Punjab' turns five
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 17 (ANI): 'Udta Punjab', a noted Hindi film, completed five years on Thursday. Actor Alia Bhatt, who played the role of Bihari migrant in the multi-starrer movie, took to Instagram Story and shared a throwback video featuring several moments of her charac
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Lithuania's foreign minister accuses Belarus of 'weaponising' illegal migr
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Vilnius [Lithuania], June 15 (ANI/Sputnik): Belarus is allegedly using illegal migrants from Syria and Iraq against Lithuania as a way to get back at Vilnius for antagonizing Minsk, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has said.
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SC defers by two weeks hearing IUML's plea challenging Centre's notificati
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred for two weeks the hearing on the petition, filed by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) challenging the May 28 notification of the ministry of home affairs (MHA) that allowed allowing non-Muslim refugees to apply for c
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Adhir Ranjan urges Mamata to form new department for welfare of Bengali mi
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 15 (ANI): West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting her to create a new department exclusively dedicated to the welfare of the West Bengal migrants in view of the "sad plight" they fa
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One Nation One Ration Card aims to empower National Food Security Act migr
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 14 (ANI): The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the 'One Nation One Ration Card' (ONORC) plan aims to empower all National Food Security Act (NFSA) migrant beneficiaries to access their foodgrains from any fair price shop anywhere in the country by using th
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Karnataka to conduct COVID-19 test of returning migrants
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 13 (ANI): Migrant labourers returning to Karnataka after the COVID-19 lockdown will be tested before entering the state, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Sunday.
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States must implement One Nation One Ration Card scheme: SC
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday observed that all states must implement the 'One Nation One Ration Card' scheme that allows migrant labourers to get ration benefits from any part of the country irrespective of the place where their ration card is registered.
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Man arrested in Italy in connection with deaths of 39 migrants in Essex, U
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Essex [UK], June 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Police from UK's Essex announced the arrested of a 27-year-old man in connection with the 2019 death of 39 Vietnamese migrants.
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Migrant workers return to Delhi as economic activity resumes on first day
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): As soon as the economic activity resumed in Delhi on Monday with the easing of Covid-19 restrictions that was imposed during the second wave of pandemic, hundreds of migrant workers were seen at Anand Vihar ISBT and the adjoining metro station in the national
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Narayana Health and GiveIndia roll out free COVID-19 vaccination drive for
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): Narayana Health, India's leading healthcare chain, in association with GiveIndia, India's most trusted online giving platform, announced a 'Free COVID-19 Vaccination Drive' across Bengaluru today.
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Nepali migrant workers start returning India in search for jobs amid pande
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 6 (ANI): Amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, the movement of the country's migrant workers through the Trinagar-Gauriphanta border point alongside India has not stopped.
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