Migrant Workers
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Watch: 18 migrant workers travelling to Lucknow in cement-mixing truck caught in Indore
News | May 02, 2020, 08:16 PM ISTIn another incident of migrant labourers making desperate attempts to reach their homes amid the nationwide lockdown, the police in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Saturday came across 18 workers travelling while hiding inside a cement concrete mixer.
The machine mounted on a truck was travelling from Maharashtra to Lucknow, said the police.
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Check posts set up to screen in-bound migrant workers in Tamil Nadu district
India | May 01, 2020, 12:32 PM ISTWith the Centre giving nod for movement of migrant workers and others stranded during lockdown, as many as 14 checkposts have been set up in this northern district in Tamil Nadu to screen people who might return home from neighbouring states
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2000 migrant workers stage protest at IIT Hyderabad amid lockdown
News | Apr 29, 2020, 08:31 PM ISTAmid nationwide lockdown, over 2000 migrant workers staged protest at IIT Hyderabad demanding to send them back to their states. They also pelted stones on police team deployed there in which one cop received minor injuries and the police vehicle was also damaged.
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Telangana: Thousands of migrant workers protest at IIT-Hyderabad over lack of food, money
India | Apr 29, 2020, 05:27 PM ISTThousands of migrant workers engaged in the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad construction work, staged a protest on Wednesday at Kandi in Sangareddy district.
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Yogi govt to bring back migrant workers stranded in other states: Here's how it will be done
India | Apr 24, 2020, 03:09 PM ISTThe Yogi Adityanath government has asked authorities to formulate a roadmap to bring back migrant workers stranded in other states due to the coronavirus lockdown who have completed the 14-day quarantine period. He said this should be done in a phased-wise manner.
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Uttar Pradesh will allow stranded people to home: Yogi Adityanath
India | Apr 22, 2020, 10:18 PM ISTThe Uttar Pradesh government will allow other states to take their stranded residents home if they wished, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Wednesday.
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Maharashtra CM Thackeray seeks guidelines from Centre on migrant workers
India | Apr 22, 2020, 11:12 AM ISTThe Maharashtra government has asked the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take custody of the scam-accused DHFL group's promoters Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawans -- whose institutional quarantine ends on Wednesday, said state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
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Delhi Police intercepts truck with 37 migrant workers amid lockdown, sent to shelter home
India | Apr 17, 2020, 03:32 PM ISTAt least 37 migrant workers traveling to Haryana's Palwal town in a truck during the lockdown period have been intercepted by the Delhi Police on Friday and were later sent to a shelter home, officials informed.
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Migrant workers throng Delhi bus stand to try to catch bus home
News | Mar 29, 2020, 11:00 AM ISTDelhi's Anand Vihar bus terminal became saw migrant workers in a very large number gather to board buses back to their respective towns and villages.
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SSA plans for education of children of migrant labourers
India | Nov 20, 2014, 12:37 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: In view of increasing inflow of migrant workers from other states into Kerala, the state Education Department is planning to open more study centres exclusively for their children under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to make
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Two migrant workers held in TCS woman employee murder case
India | Feb 26, 2014, 10:51 AM ISTChennai: Two migrant workers from West Bengal were yesterday arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a 24-year old IT woman employee here with CCTV footage from the area providing the breakthrough in the