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4 Gujarat workers returning home after lockdown killed in accident
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Palghar (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Four migrant workers from Gujarat were killed after being hit by a tempo in Palghar while they were walking back to their villages about 600 km away following the nationwide lockdown
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Appalling to see migrant workers plight: Shivakumar appeals authorities to
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief DK Shivakumar on Saturday appealed to the authorities to arrange transport for migrant workers, stating that it is appalling to see their plight as they are walking hundreds of kilometres to their
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'Walking for three days and yet miles to go before we can reach home'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ghaziabad/Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Several daily wage workers and migrant labourers who had once left their homes and moved to the national capital in search of work have been taking the arduous trek back to their villages since the 21 days countrywide lockdown was anno
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PIL in SC seeks food, shelter for migrant workers, their families
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking food, water, shelter, medical aid and 'urgent indulgence to the plight of migrant workers and their families including women, kids, elders and Divyangs, who are walking on foot to their villages, amid COV
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Lockdown worsens water woes of Delhi's Chilla village
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): People in Chilla village of the national capital are struggling hard to meet their need of drinking water amid countrywide lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic.
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CPI leader writes to PM, seeks transport for migrant workers
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI): CPI MP Binoy Viswam on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking transport for the migrant labourers who are on their journey to their villages on foot and to ensure the safe return of these workers.
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Police officials in Hardoi help man return to his village in Lakhanpur di
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hardoi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): While there have been widespread reports of police highhandedness in enforcing lockdown, Lakhanpur district resident Sandeep Singh who is on an arduous trek from Lucknow to his village has a different story to tell.
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'No option but to walk home': Group of labourers set on 300km journey amid
Updated : 6 years, 1 month 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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People pelt stones on police at check post in Andhra's Guntur
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Some people on Thursday pelted stones on police when they were stopped at Andhra Pradesh-Telangana border check post at Pondugula village in Dachepalli mandal of Guntur district amid nationwide lockdown.
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Hunger, not coronavirus, driving daily wage earners from Delhi to their na
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Despite repeated assurances by the Centre and state government of no shortage of food and essential services in Delhi, many daily wage earners have started fleeing the national capital on foot to return to their native villages in nearby Uttar Pradesh and oth
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COVID-19: Locals barricaded roads to prevent movement of people in WB's Ba
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bankura (West Bengal) [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Locals at a village in Bankura have barricaded roads connecting the village to other parts of the district, with bamboo to prevent movement of people in the view of novel coronavirus outbreak.
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People in Andhra's Krishna block way to their village to prevent coronavir
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Krishna (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Mar 25 (ANI): People of Jagannatha Puram and Jujjuru have blocked the road between the two villages in Veerulapadu mandal, Krishna district.
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