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No money, no food and 2,000km from home: a journey facing millions in India’s migrant worker humanitarian crisis
He has been waiting to do so for two months. At first, he was waiting for India’s lockdown, impl…
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Haryana asks industry not to lay off workers due to Covid-19 lockdown
The Haryana government has issued an advisory to industries and commercial establishments in the …
PTI
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A sobbing child migrant worker stranded in Delhi without shelter, job and a way back home — is only one among lakhs of his peers
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to people to stay indoors for 21 days, he was talking to…
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Harrowing pictures show hundreds of thousands of migrant workers flocking to state borders in India despite nationwide lock down
Migrant workers in India’s national capital New Delhi were seen flocking to the Uttar Pradesh borde…
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Sex workers in Mumbai struggle to survive amid Coronavirus lock down
This is the eighth day that sex worker Soni, 49, has not got a single "kastamber" (customer), as…
PTI
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Job seekers under MGNREGA has jumped 50% as migrant workers forced to return home are desperate for livelihood
More people are looking for jobs under MGNREGA as enrollment surges by 50% with migrants forced to …
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Lockdown in India has impacted 40 million internal migrants, says World Bank
"The lockdown in India has impacted the livelihoods of a large proportion of the country's near…
PTI
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Migrant workers returning to villages told to live in trees to enforce social distancing
Taking the coronavirus outbreak and the media campaign about social distancing seriously, the villa…
PTI
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Migrant exodus is breaking the supply chain of essential goods
As grocery stores, across the country, are grappling with panic buying and dwindling supplies of fr…
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Bihar braces for massive influx of migrants - CM Nitish Kumar asks officials to pull up their socks
At a marathon meeting here on Friday which lasted for close to six hours, Kumar asked officials …
PTI
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The government has no provision for economic assistance to migrant families, says Labour Ministry
The central government has no provision for compensation or economic assistance to the families of …
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First special train ferries 1,200 stranded migrants from Telangana to Jharkhand
"The 24 coach train started at 4.50 am today (Friday)," RPF DG Arun Kumar told PTI. It's the …
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee says India should have used Aadhaar to give temporary ration to migrants
Banerjee was Gandhi’s second guest in his video series, #RahulShowsTheWay, where the Congress …
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India reports the largest coronavirus outbreak in Asia as millions of migrant workers travel from packed cities to rural villages
Social distancing is nearly impossible in packed, unhygienic slums at the center of the country's o…
Rhea Mahbubani
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SOP for movement of migrants workers by trains focus social distancing
As the government has already run the Shramik special trains to ferry migrant workers to their nati…
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Actor Sonu Sood turns author with a book on his work with migrants during coronavirus
Sood and his team rolled out a toll-free number and a WhatsApp helpline to connect with the workers…
PTI
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Migrant labourers facing discrimination, they have 'more immunity' against coronavirus: Sharad Yadav
"This is height of discrimination which is intolerable... The most perturbing part is that the cen…
PTI
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Odisha's COVID-19 tally swells as 65 out of 67 positive cases are migrant workers
The maximum of 26 fresh cases were found in Ganjam district, followed by 11 each in Jajpur and…
PTI
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Over 5.43 lakh migrants have returned to Odisha - coronavirus cases set to cross the 4,000 mark
Odisha has 3909 confirmed Coronavirus cases so far. Over 5.43 lakh …
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India Inc in Singapore makes financial donation to COVID-19 infected migrant workers
Commenting on the donation, Jawed Ashraf, the High Commissioner of India to Singapore, said: "This …