Aurangabad (Maharashtra): Fifteen migrant labourers have died after a goods train ran over a group of 16 labourers asleep on the railway tracks early on Friday in Maharashtra. The home-bound exhausted lot were run over between Jalna and Aurangabad. A Railway Ministry official told IANS, “At least 14 people died on the spot and two injured […]
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Cong will pay for rail tickets of migrants: Sonia
New Delhi: Emphasising on the plight of migrants and the money being charged from them for ferrying them back to their home, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that the party will bear the cost of their rail tickets. In a statement, Sonia Gandhi said, our workers and labourers form the “backbone” of […]
Yogi sets up panel to provide jobs to migrant workers
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set up a committee to probe ways to provide employment at the local level to over five lakh migrant workers who have come from other states. The committee will suggest ways to provide employment under the ‘One district, One product’ (ODOP) scheme and also arrange for loans […]
Bandra migrants protest case: Mumbai police arrests television journalist on charges of spreading fake news
Mumbai: Barely 24 hours after a massive migrants’ morcha demanding ‘ghar-wapsi’ shocked the nation, the Mumbai Police on Wednesday evening arrested a television journalist, Rahul Kulkarni, on charges of spreading fake news. “Rahul Kulkarni has been arrested by the Bandra Police and will be produced before the court on Thursday morning. He has been charged […]
Know Vinay Dubey, the man accused of instigating Mumbai migrants
Mumbai: Vinay Dubey — the man termed as the reason behind the migrants chaos in Mumbais Bandra on Tuesday when thousands of labourers took to the street demanding to be taken back to their homes — is originally a small scale technical support provider to an e-commerce website with never ending political ambitions, making the […]
Centre to SC: 3 out of 10 moving from cities to villages likely to carry corona
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court there is a possibility that 3 out of 10 people moving from cities to rural areas could be carrying coronavirus. A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao held the hearing through video conferencing on plea by advocate Alakh Alok […]