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NHRC issues advisories to Centre on issues of mental health, bonded labour
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued three more advisories to the Centre, States and Union Territories (UT) administrations calling for specific action within four weeks on the issues of mental health, bonded labourers and migrant informal secto
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As unlock process begins, migrant workers start returning to places of wor
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Migrant workers who went back to their native villages during the second wave of Covid-19 have started returning to their places of work due to the possibility of unlock in different part of the country.
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Migrant labourers, who left Delhi after lockdown, trickle back; most cite
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): With Covid-19 positivity rate in Delhi plummeting to nearly 1.5 per cent, migrant labourers who had left for their home states, during the lockdown in the national capital owing to a sudden spurt in cases, are seen gradually returning.
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SC passes slew of directions on plights of migrant labourers amid COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday passed a slew of directions in connection with the Suo Motu matter involving the miseries and the problems faced by the migrant labourers and workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Another exodus of migrant workers underway as Delhi extends lockdown
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): Migrant workers started heading for their home towns on Tuesday morning as the government of Delhi extended lockdown for the fourth time in the national capital after the second coronavirus wave.
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Some 200 illegal migrants returned to Libya
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], May 15 (ANI/Xinhua): The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Friday said that some 200 illegal migrants have been returned to Libya.
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SC asks Delhi, UP, Haryana to provide dry ration, meals to stranded migran
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday, issuing a slew of directions relating to migrants workers stranded in NCR due to COVID-19 lockdown, ordered Delhi, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh govrenments (for districts included in the NCR) to provide dry ration, open community
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SC to pass order today on plea seeking to direct Centre, state govt's to e
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will pass the order today itself on the steps to be taken by Centre and state governments to ensure the migrant and stranded labourers get ration, food security and transportation to go back home.
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Migrant workers returning Jharkhand to undergo COVID test on arrival
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 5 (ANI): In view of the surging COVID cases, the Jharkhand government on Wednesday released new guidelines for coronavirus management and stated that all migrant workers returning to the state will have to undergo Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) on arrival.
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COVID-19: Plea in SC to direct Centre to ensure ration, transport facility
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking directions to ensure that the migrant and stranded labourers get ration and food security and they are also able to travel back to their homes at nominal cost amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<
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HC issues notice to Delhi govt on plea seeking cooked meals for migrant wo
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the Delhi government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to authorities concerned to provide cooked and packed meals to all the workers and their families gathering in view of the ongoing l
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Pope Francis mourns Baghdad Hospital fire deaths, drowned migrants
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], April 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Pope Francis on Sunday mourned the casualties of the recent hospital fire in Baghdad as well as the death of 130 migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea.
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