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  Sonu Sood arranges bus transport for migrant workers amid Covid-19 pandemic (Video)

  Celebrities | May 14, 2020 18:11 IST

  Actor Sonu Sood has organised multiple bus services for migrant workers in a noble gesture in the wake of covid-19 pandemic. On Monday, buses left from Thane, Maharashtra to Gulbarga, Karnataka. The actor also visited the bus terminals to bid the workers goodbye.

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  Centre wants to return all migrant workers to their home states in '3-4 days': Piyush Goyal

  India | May 10, 2020 17:12 IST

  Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal has called upon states to cooperate with Centre so that all the stranded migrant workers in different parts of the country could return to their homes in the next "3-4 days itself."

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  COVID-19: Ghaziabad Police stop migrant workers coming from Delhi amid lockdown

  News | May 10, 2020 18:55 IST

  Amid nationwide lockdown, several migrant workers from Delhi walking along NH-9 towards different districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have been stopped by police in Ghaziabad on May 10.

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  Migrant workers clash with police in Gujarat's Surat

  India | May 09, 2020 13:06 IST

  Demanding a return passage to their home states, hundreds of agitated migrant workers clashed with the police at Mora village in Gujarat's Surat district on Saturday, an official said.

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  Karnataka: Hundreds of migrant workers throng Mangaluru railway station, demand to be sent home

  India | May 08, 2020 13:13 IST

  Hundreds of migrant labourers on Friday thronged the Railway station in Mangaluru on Friday on learning that the Karnataka government would be operating special trains to their home states and demanded that they should be immediately sent back, police said.

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  85 per cent daily wagers hit by lockdown in Ahmedabad: Survey

  Business | May 08, 2020 10:03 IST

  At least 85 per cent of daily wagers in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city have lost their regular income during the COVID-19 lockdown, a survey conducted by the Indian Institute of Management here revealed.

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  Maharashtra: 16 migrant workers mowed down by goods train in Aurangabad, 5 injured

  India | May 08, 2020 23:01 IST

  At least 16 migrant workers were killed after coming under a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district on Friday. A police official told all 16 killed were returning to Madhya Pradesh and had slept on railway tracks.

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  Video: Police lathicharge to disperse protesting migrants in Kerala's Ernakulam

  India | May 07, 2020 14:26 IST

  Migrant labourers who were protesting in Kerala's Ernakulam that they be sent back to their native places were lathicharged by cops on Thursday.

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  Over Rs 50 crore spent to ferry nearly 70,000 migrants in last 5 days, say railway officials

  India | May 05, 2020 21:52 IST

  Nearly 70,000 stranded migrants have been ferried to various parts of the country in 'Shramik Special' trains since May 1 at the estimated expense of over Rs 50 crore, railway officials said on Tuesday even as the issue of their travel cost remained a matter of political bickering with the Congress and BSP leaders attacking the railways for charging money from these migrants.

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  Telangana to run 40 trains a day for one week to send migrant workers home

  India | May 05, 2020 10:40 IST

  In a major relief for migrant workers stranded in different parts of Telangana, the state government has said 40 special trains would be deployed per day for one week beginning Tuesday to ferry them to their native places in states, including Bihar and West Bengal. 

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  Migrant workers block national highway in Bengaluru, demand to be sent back home

  News | May 05, 2020 11:48 IST

  Migrant workers blocked national highway near Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) in Bengaluru on May 04.

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  Protesting migrant workers lathi-charged in West Godavari

  News | May 05, 2020 11:48 IST

  Despite special trains ferrying migrant labourers to their native places, many of them have been unhappy over delay in their travel.

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  Rail fare row: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala not paying for migrant labourers' travel

  India | May 04, 2020 21:58 IST

  Amidst criticism over the railways charging stranded migrant workers for ferrying them home, payments for 45 special trains that have run so far have been made by originating states, barring Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka, sources said on Monday.

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  Never talked about charging migrant workers; 85% fare borne by Rlys, 15% by state govts: Centre

  India | May 04, 2020 20:29 IST

  The government has not talked about charging anything from migrant labourers as 85 per cent of the transportation cost is borne by the railways and 15 per cent by state governments, the Centre said on Monday.

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  Give migrant workers free train trips back home, urges Bollywood

  Entertainment | May 04, 2020 16:25 IST

  From Riteish Deshmukh, Sonu Sood to Javed Akhtar, Bollywood celebrities tweeted and urged the governments to bear the cost of migrant workers' train trip back to their home towns.

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  No train fare from students, migrant workers to get full reimbursement: Nitish Kumar

  India | May 04, 2020 14:36 IST

  Bihar state government will bear the train fare of returning students and also reimburse migrant workers on completing their quarantine, as all are returning to their native states amid coronavirus lockdown extention in the country. The announcement has been made by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

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  14 migrants tested corona positive after returning to Chhattisgarh: State's Health Minister

  News | May 04, 2020 11:23 IST

  Health Minister of Chhattisgarh, TS Singh Deo, on May 03 informed that out of all the migrant workers who have returned from different states, 14 have so far tested positive in Chhattisgarh.

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  Scenes of joy at Lucknow station as first special train ferrying 800 migrant workers arrives

  India | May 03, 2020 14:19 IST

  The 02121 Shramik Special carried over 800 others from Maharashtra's Nashik, all stranded there for weeks after a lockdown to fight coronavirus was imposed nationwide.

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  Railways runs 10 trains to ferry migrants home

  India | May 02, 2020 23:19 IST

  The railways on Saturday ran 10 trains to ferry home to Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar nearly 10,000 migrants from eight states, a senior official said.

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  Chennai: Migrant workers stage flash protest defying curbs

  India | May 02, 2020 20:52 IST

  Defying curbs and norms like physical distancing, migrant workers on Saturday staged a flash protest here, demanding that the authorities send them to their home states like Jharkhand immediately, an official said.