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Bihar: Huge crowds gather in Vaishali to pay tribute to sepoy killed in Ga
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bihar [India], June 19 (ANI): Huge crowds gathered on Friday to pay their last tribute to Sepoy Jai Kishore Singh who lost his life in Ladakh's Galwan Valley on June 15. The gathering took place at his native village in Vaishali.
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Migrant workers returning to village getting work under MGNREGA in Odisha'
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Jajpur (Odisha) [India], June 10 (ANI): Migrant workers who have returned to their native villages amid coronavirus-induced lockdown are getting employment under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in different blocks of Jajpur district in Odisha.
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Long waiting list for trains pushes migrants from Maharashtra to take to r
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], May 16 (ANI): Despite the government's initiatives of plying special trains and buses to transport stranded people, several migrant workers from Maharashtra were on Saturday seen heading towards their native villages in other states on bicycles.
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Special train with 1,473 migrant workers leaves from Goa for Himachal Prad
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 13 (ANI): As many as 1,473 migrant workers from Himachal Pradesh, who were stranded in Goa due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown, were sent back to their native villages by a special train.
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Migrant labourers who travelled from Mumbai to native Gonda forced to spen
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Gonda (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): A group of migrant labourers who undertook a long painstaking journey from Mumbai to reach their native village in Gonda in Madhya Pradesh, are now being forced to spend their quarantine period in an open field.
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Migrants leave national capital for Bihar on foot
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Determined to reach their home, a group of over 30 migrant workers embarked upon a long journey on foot to their native village in Bihar's Purnia district as they are unaware about special passenger trains being run to ferry stranded migrants back to their ho
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Last rites of Police Sub-Inspector held in native village in Chhattisgarh'
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Surguja (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 9 (ANI): The last rites of Police Sub-Inspector Shyam Kishore Sharma who lost his life in an encounter with Naxals, was held in his native village Khala, in Surguja district, today.
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'What choice do we have'; Migrants workers in Mumbai set off on long walks
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 7 (ANI): With little or no money left in their pockets and no earning opportunities in the city, hundreds of migrant workers in Mumbai and nearby areas are setting off on long walks to their native villages hundreds of kilometres away.
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Last rites of soldier killed in ceasefire violation in Baramulla performed
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand) [India], May 4 (ANI): The last rites of late Naik Shankar Singh Mehra was performed here in Nali village of Gangolihat on Sunday.
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Plea in SC seeking payment of wages to MGNREGA workers amid lockdown
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): Social activists Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey have approached the Supreme Court, seeking directions for the payment of wages to MNREGA workers during the lockdown, issuance of temporary job cards to migrants, who returned to their native villages, and for an inc
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Truck drivers leave migrant workers midway as they failed to pay money
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): A group of migrant workers here on Saturday alleged that truck drivers are charging them Rs 100 per head for dropping them to their native villages in Madhya Pradesh.
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'No option but to walk home': Group of labourers set on 300km journey amid
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Out of work and with no money at hand, a group of daily wage labourers set out on foot for a 300 km journey from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad to their native village of Dausa in Rajasthan. The COVID-19 lockdown has left them with no shelter and f
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