Boat carrying Haitian migrants sinks off Bahamas, 17 killed
World | July 25, 2022 7:16 ISTBoat capsizes in the Bahamas: The dead included 15 women, one man and an infant. The people rescued were taken for observation by health workers.
Boat capsizes in the Bahamas: The dead included 15 women, one man and an infant. The people rescued were taken for observation by health workers.
The incident took place on Thursday when a truck loaded with coal ran over migrants on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway near Aasoda toll plaza in Jhajjar district, said police.
The family of four Indian nationals, including an infant, froze to death along the US-Canada border in what authorities believe was a failed crossing attempt during a freezing blizzard.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said he and his two Baltic counterparts are discussing whether to ask for such talks under the NATO treaty, which allows any ally to request consultations if it feels its territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened.
The 41-year-old officer took the last commercial flight from Kabul to Delhi on Sunday to escape "certain death", leaving behind his ailing mother, wife and an eight-year-old son.
Amid fear of rising COVID-19 cases and possibility of lockdown extension, Migrant workers thronged Delhi's Anand Vihar Bus Terminal.
Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal announced a week-long lockdown due to prevailing COVID-19 situation in the national capital starting from 10 pm, April 19 to 5 am April 26.
The Railway administration, however, attributed the passenger rush to the summer season which sees a large number of people travelling to their native places.
Covid-19 restrictions in Mumbai have forced migrant workers to return home. Long-distance trains departing from Mumbai railway stations are heavily packed with migrant workers.
With night curfews, stringent daytime restrictions and a weekend lockdown imposed across the state, migrants from different parts of India are in a state of semi-panic.
Raftaar has united with composer Salim Merchant and rapper KARMA for a new single.
Criticising the TMC dispensation in West Bengal for allegedly opposing pro-people policies of the Centre, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the state could not be made a beneficiary of the 'Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan', as it had not provided any data on migrant labourers.
The Indian Railways will be providing 8-lakh man-days of employment opportunities to migrants workers in the next 125 days till October 31 under government's Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojana Abhiyaan (GKRYA), announced Railways Minister Piyush Goyal. These new jobs will be generated in the infrastructure sector of the railways with an investment of Rs 1800 crore.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (GKRA) to boost employment and livelihood opportunities for migrant workers returning to villages, in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.
Sonu Sood came to see off the migrants and also distributed essentials to them before they headed to Uttar Pradesh.
The lockdown-triggered joblessness has forced a reverse migration of thousands of guest workers from Tamil Nadu resulting in the workforce across various sectors in the state dwindling, with the construction industry in bearing the brunt.
While one is asking Sonu's help in meeting his girlfriend, another is requesting him to help reach beauty parlour. And guess what, the actor is responding to everyone with a smile.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday set a deadline for Centre, State to facilitate returning of migrant workers to their native places within 15 days. The apex court has also directed Centre to provide additional trains for transportation of migrant workers within 24 hours of states making a demand.
No more Shramik Special trains from the national capital of Delhi would be plying to other states as there was no fresh demand from the local government
The girl’s help assumes significance amid the distress faced by the migrants across the country with many of them walking hundreds of kilometres to reach their homes, and some dying due to accidents and fatigue during the arduous journey.
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