Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 8 (ANI): Migrant labourers, who were working at the construction site of AIIMS Mangalagiri staged a protest on Friday at flyover bridge near the old highway demanding the government to send them back to their native places.
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Medical screening of migrant labourers, who are going back to their native homes in Bihar, have been conducted and all arrangements are in place to send back them safely via 'shramik special train' which will leave from Delhi for Muzaffarpur in Bihar, said Soh
Mangaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 8 (ANI): Migrant workers, stranded in Karnataka due to lockdown, staged a protest on Friday at the Central Railway Station here, demanding to be sent back to their respective native places.
Tenkasi (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 7 (ANI): The mortal remains of a CRPF constable Chandrasekhar C , who was martyred in an encounter with terrorists at Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir, were taken to his native place at Tenkasi for cremation on Thursday.
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is exploring a native herb as a biological medicine or "phytopharmaceutical ", which is already being tested as medicine for dengue, for its efficacy to combat COVID-19.
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.
Ernakulam (Kerala) [India], May 7 (ANI): Kerala Police resorted to mild lathi-charge in Koothattukulam area of Ernakulam District on Thursday to disperse migrant labourers who were holding a demonstration demanding that they be sent back to their native places.
Nellore (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 7 (ANI): As many as 500 people who had come to offer prayers at Hazrat Syed Nayab-e-Rasool Dargah in Nellore and got stranded due to lockdown are now being sent to their native states.
Vizag (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 7 (ANI): As several states have started receiving and sending the stranded people to their native states, a group of migrant workers of HPCL refinery in Vizag's Pedagantyada staged a protest demanding payment of their salary for April at first.
Thane (Maharashtra) [India], May 6 (ANI): Even as the nationwide lockdown is in force to contain COVID-19, scores of migrant workers were seen in long queues outside private medical clinics on Wednesday in Dombivli city of Thane, to get medical certificates in order to obtain transit passes
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 5 (ANI): Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday said the state government doesn't favour migrant workers' return to their native places as Punjab is their homeland now.
Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], May 5 (ANI): Migrant labourers in Payyoli town of Kozhikode district held a protest demanding to be sent back to their native states as coronavirus-induced lockdown continues.