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Over 2 lakh stranded migrants ferried in 145 special trains on Thursday
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The Indian Railways operated 145 'Shramik Special' trains on Thursday and ferried home close to 2.10 lakh migrants stranded in various parts of the country amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, officials said.
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Stranded migrant workers walk towards their hometowns from Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): After walking for several kilometres due to lack of public transport, migrant workers on Friday reached Delhi-Gazipur border on way to their homes in various parts of Uttar Pradesh.
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Migrant workers leave Mumbai in autos
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) / Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 15 (ANI): Determined to reach their homes, people are using autorickshaws to make their journey from Maharashtra to their home states. Auto drivers, their families and migrants stranded in Mumbai are making the journey to Biha
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Migrant worker wheels his pregnant wife, toddler on makeshift cart from Hy
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), May 15 (ANI) A migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh who found himself stranded in Hyderabad during the lockdown managed to get back home walking around 700 kilometres, wheeling along with his pregnant wife and daughter on a makeshift wooden cart for the most part of th
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MEA does not discriminate between states: Anurag Shrivastava responds to W
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said it does not discriminate between states, and the Centre's Vande Bharat mission is for all stranded Indians.
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Manipur village set up quarantine bamboo huts for returnees
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Senapati (Manipur) [India], May 15 (ANI): A Naga village in Manipur has set up quarantine cottages for the returnees, who are coming home after being stranded in various parts of the country due to the government-imposed lockdown.
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From May 18, Haryana govt to ply buses to bring back its stranded people i
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (Haryana) [India], May 14 (ANI): Haryana government has provided a major relief to its natives who are stranded in Delhi owing to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and are eager to return to their districts or wish to reach New Delhi Railway station from their residential district.
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Professional footballer from Ghana stranded at Mumbai airport for 54 days
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 14 (ANI): A Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for a Kerala-based club has been stuck for the last 54 days at Mumbai International Airport due to lockdown and unavailability of flights back home.
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Thousands Indians to be repatriated from Canada under Vande Bharat Mission
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Thousands of Indians stranded in Canada will be repatriated in the next phase of Vande Bharat Mission in flights from Vancouver and Toronto, High Commissioner of India to Canada, Ajay Bisaria, on Thursday.
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44 'Shramik Special' trains brought back over 50,000 migrant workers to Jh
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 14 (ANI): Jharkhand State Transport Secretary K Ravi Kumar on Thursday informed that 44 'Shramik Special' trains have brought back 50,028 migrant workers, who were stranded in different states due to lockdown, to their native place here.
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India evacuates over 12,000 people so far under Vande Bharat Mission
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): India has evacuated over 12,000 people so far under the Vande Bharat Mission undertaken by the government for the repatriation of Indian nationals stranded overseas, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
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Piyush Goyal hits out at Mamata, says West Bengal needs 105 trains per da
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday hit out the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying the West Bengal government was accepting only 105 trains in a month for migrant labourers stranded in other states while the state needs 105 trains daily a
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