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  Now migrants don't want to return home, says Noida DM

  India | May 30, 2020 13:55 IST

  The DM expressed hope that these migrants who stayed back will contribute to the workforce needed to restart industrial units and can even work at construction sites.

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  BEST decides not to charge bus ticket fares from migrants

  India | May 29, 2020 14:53 IST

  The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) on Friday announced that no ticket fares will be charged from migrant labourers when buses are made available for dropping them at the city railway stations for their journey to their home states. 

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  Congress doing 'dramebazi' on migrants issue: Ravi Shankar Prasad

  Politics | May 29, 2020 13:11 IST

  Union Minister for Law & Justice, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday spoke to India TV during its special coverage #TeamModiOnIndia on the completion of one year of the Modi government 2.0.

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  No fare to be charged, railways to give food: Supreme court orders 5 points on migrant crisis

  India | May 28, 2020 16:16 IST

  The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Centre to ensure free travel to stranded migrants to their home states by trains and buses even as the Centre contended that it is taking “unprecedented steps” to mitigate the challenging crisis during COVID-19 lockdown.

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  COVID-19: Delhi farmer buys flight tickets to send home his 10 workers

  News | May 28, 2020 11:13 IST

  After two months of hardship due to lockdown, ten migrant workers in Delhi will be back home tomorrow.

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  Testing all migrants, fully prepared to fight coronavirus: MP Health Minister Narottam Mishra

  India | May 27, 2020 13:27 IST

  Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Narottam Mishra during Health Ministers conference on India TV on Wednesday said the doubling rate of coronavirus cases in the state is very low but we have a high recovery rate of 73 per cent.

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  Long queue spotted at railway stations as migrants await for their turn to return home

  News | May 25, 2020 17:17 IST

  Migrants are continuously lining up outside railway stations with a hope that they will finally reach their hometown.

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  Yogi govt completes skill mapping of 14.75 lakh migrants who returned back to state

  India | May 25, 2020 15:06 IST

  The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has completed the task of skill mapping of 14.75 lakh migrant workers who have returned to the state during lockdown. According to the official spokesman, the skill mapping of migrant workers will help in providing employment for them.

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  Mayawati terms Rahul Gandhi's meet with migrants as 'fake'

  News | May 23, 2020 14:21 IST

  Congress is the real culprit behind the plight of the migrant workers: Mayawati

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  First Sharamik train for Nagaland ferries over 1,400 people from Chennai

  India | May 23, 2020 10:30 IST

  The first Nagaland-bound Shramik Special train from Chennai with 1,477 stranded people has reached the Dimapur railway station, an official said.

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  BJP, Congress spar over Priyanka Gandhi Bus row

  News | May 22, 2020 16:33 IST

  The analysis of the 1049 registration details of the vehicles revealed that 31 of them were registered as autos/three-wheelers, 69 of them as ambulances/school buses/trucks and there were no details available for 70 vehicles.

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  Huge crowd of migrant workers gather at Delhi-Ghaziabad border aiming to reach their hometown

  News | May 19, 2020 17:45 IST

  Huge crowd of migrant workers on Tuesday gathered at Delhi-Ghaziabad border aiming to reach their hometown after UP govt gave some relaxation in lockdown norms.

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  Defying lockdown norms, huge crowd of migrant workers gathered outside the Bandra railway station

  News | May 19, 2020 16:16 IST

  Huge crowd of migrant workers gathered outside the Bandra railway station in Mumbai earlier today to board a "Shramik special' train to Bihar.

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  Mumbai: Thousands of migrants gather at Bandra railway station after rumours of special trains

  India | May 19, 2020 15:13 IST

  Unprecedented scenes have been witnessed at Mumbai's Bandra Railway station after thousands of migrant labourers gathered at the station. As per initial reports, the migrants were informed that special trains will be running from the Bandra railway station for labourers.

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  Buses for migrants: Yogi govt asks Priyanka Gandhi to provide 500 buses in Noida, Ghaziabad

  India | May 19, 2020 15:06 IST

  Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has asked Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to provide 500 buses to facilitate migrants' travel from Noida and Ghaziabad.

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  Autos, bikes in Congress' list of buses sent to Yogi govt for ferrying migrants

  India | May 19, 2020 12:20 IST

  The list of buses that have been sent by Congress party to Yogi Adityanath government to help migrants consist of two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and even 4-wheelers but such vehicles do not come under the bus category.

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  Bihar: Truck-bus collide in Bhagalpur; 9 migrant labourers dead, several injured

  India | May 19, 2020 10:44 IST

  At least 9 labourers dead and several injured after a truck and a bus collided in Naugachhia, Bhagalpur. The truck in which the labourers were travelling, fell off the road following the collision. The rescue operation is underway.

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  20 migrants in Ayodhya, 10 in Hamirpur injured in mishaps

  India | May 18, 2020 11:26 IST

  Twenty migrant workers were injured when a mini-truck rammed into a truck in Ayodhya district on Monday morning.

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  Rahul Gandhi wasting migrant labourers time: Sitharaman slams Congress leader

  India | May 17, 2020 15:02 IST

  FM Sitharaman in a presser responded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's criticism on government's policy towards helping migrants saying that it would have been better for the Congress leader to ask his party-ruled states to arrange for more trains for migrants with more facilities to help them.

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  Centre launches online dashboard for monitoring movement of migrant workers

  India | May 16, 2020 23:16 IST

  ​The Centre has launched an online dashboard to monitor and facilitate the smooth movement of migrant workers and their contact-tracing during lockdown across the country.