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Migrants walking home were provided with essential items whenever necessar
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): The Central government has submitted before the Supreme Court that migrant labourers, who were found walking to their homes, were shifted to the nearest railway stations and essential items including food, water, medicines and clothes were provided to them wh
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1,163 migrant labourers in UP symptomatic for COVID-19, says Amit Mohan Pr
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 5 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary (Health), Amit Mohan Prasad on Friday informed that as many as 1,163 migrant labourers who have returned to the state are symptomatic for COVID-19.
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SC to pronounce on Tuesday order on issue of stranded migrants
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order for June 9 on a suo motu plea over the plight of migrant labourers stranded across the country amid the ongoing coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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Bihar Police cautions local administration regarding spurt in crime, law a
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], June 5 (ANI): Additional Director General (law and order) Amit Kumar has expressed concern that the return of migrant labourers could lead to a spurt in crime and law and order issues in the state.
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Punjab urges Centre to arrange trains for bringing migrant workers back to
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], June 5 (ANI): Punjab Industries and Commerce Minister Sunder Sham Arora has in a letter to the Union government urged it "to arrange trains for bringing migrant workers" who wish to come back from their home states and join work as industrial units have resumed the
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179 migrant workers airlifted to Raipur from Bengaluru
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Raipur (Chattisgarh) [India], June 4 (ANI): 179 migrant workers, who were stranded amid COVID-19 lockdown in Bengaluru, were airlifted to Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur in a chartered flight on Thursday.
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Minimum wages to all MGNREGA workers in Odisha's Keonjhar
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 4 (ANI): In order to secure and enhance the livelihood of rural poor and returning migrant workers in the light of COVID-19 pandemic, District Mineral Foundation (DMF), Keonjhar has decided to provide 'minimum wages' to all MGNREGA workers in the distric
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SC allows lawyer to deposit Rs 25 lakh in court registry towards migrants
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a Mumbai-based practicing lawyer to deposit Rs 25 lakh in the Apex Court registry to ensure that those migrants from Mumbai can travel to their respective states, including Uttar Pradesh, during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Why is a worker going from one state to another called 'migrant', question
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], June 4 (ANI): Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that his government is working on generating employment for all those who have returned to Bihar during the COVID-19 phase, and also slammed all those who had used the term 'migrants' for workers.
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J-K evacuates over 1.7 lakh people stranded in various parts of country
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 4 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir administration has evacuated over 1.7 lakh citizens stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown.
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Odisha govt to airlift over 300 migrants stranded in North-east states
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 3 (ANI): Over 300 people from Odisha stranded in Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Assam are being brought by Air Asia Flight to Bhubaneswar by the state government.
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Only 2 pc of those returned to Bihar from Punjab contracted virus: Capt Am
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], June 3 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that only 2 per cent of migrants, who have returned to Bihar from his state, have contracted coronavirus.
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