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  PM Modi, Rajnath Singh other leaders condole death of migrant workers in UP's Auraiya

  India | May 16, 2020 14:13 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday condoled the death of 24 migrant workers in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.

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  CM Gehlot directs officials to strengthen quarantine system at rural level

  News | May 16, 2020 13:15 IST

  While discussing the quarantine arrangements with the Collectors, District and Sub Divisional level officers through video conference, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

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  Truck carrying migrants overturns in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur; 5 dead, dozens injured

  India | May 16, 2020 14:46 IST

  At least 5 migrants have died while over 2 dozens injured after a truck carrying migrants overturned near Simra flyover on Sagar-Kanpur highway, in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh.

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  Ensure no migrant worker walks on foot, facilitate their travel: MHA to states

  India | May 15, 2020 23:25 IST

  The Union Home Ministry today asked states and union territories to ensure that there is no movement of migrant workers on roads and railway tracks. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, who wrote to Chief Secretaries, directed that the migrants be facilitated through special buses or Shramik special trains.

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  Special trains to run for migrants in Noida. Check details

  Fyi | May 15, 2020 11:10 IST

  Special trains are being arranged for migrants stuck in Gautam Buddh Nagar due to temporarily closure of industries, factories amid coronavirus outbreak. As per the instructions of the state government, special trains will be run for migrant labourers. The trains will be run from Dadri railway station and Dankaur Railway station.

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  8 migrants killed, over 50 injured after truck-bus collision in Madhya Pradesh's Guna

  India | May 14, 2020 10:08 IST

  At least 8 migrants have been killed and over 50 are injured after the bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck in Madhya Pradesh's Guna. The migrant labourers were travelling from Maharashtra to Uttar Pradesh amid lockdown situation in the country.

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  UP: Roadways bus runs over migrants. 6 killed, 4 critically injured

  News | May 14, 2020 9:20 IST

  At least 6 migrants have been killed and 4 others are critically injured after a UP roadways bus hit them near Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur border. The injured have been referred to Meerut Medical college.

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  Section 144 imposed in nearby areas of New Delhi railway station

  India | May 12, 2020 14:15 IST

  As railways to resume services of select trains from today, Section 144 has been imposed in nearby areas around the New Delhi Railway Station as a precautionary measure.

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  COVID-19: 'No money, no food', stranded workers continue to face hardships

  News | May 11, 2020 18:36 IST

  Despite special trains being run to repatriate stranded labourers amid lockdown, several still continue to face hardships.

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  Unaware of railway guidelines, migrants reach New Delhi station to book tickets, disappointed

  India | May 11, 2020 13:04 IST

  Ever since the Railway on Sunday announced to resume special/select passenger train services from tomorrow (Tuesday, May 12) onwards, several migrants took to New Delhi railways in order to purchase tickets on Monday not knowing that tickets can be booked using only IRCTC's official website.

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  SER reduces speed of trains amid movement of migrants along tracks

  India | May 11, 2020 6:54 IST

  The South Eastern Railway has decided to reduce the speed of all goods and special trains to 40 km per hour in its Kharagpur-Bhadkar section till Monday morning owing to the movement of migrant workers at different places along the railway tracks, an official said in Kolkata on Sunday. 

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  First batch of trains of Indian Railways to resume service from Delhi on May 12

  India | May 10, 2020 21:39 IST

  The trains will be separate from 'Shramik Special' trains for stranded migrants, which will continue to ply as they are now, the Railways has said

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  Registration begins for stranded migrant labourers in Kerala

  India | May 01, 2020 11:53 IST

  With the Centre taking a considerate stand on operating non-stop trains to carry migrant labourers stuck in various states, which will help them to return to their home states, Kerala on Friday started the registration process for it. 

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  India TV IMPACT: BMC swings into action, makes arrangements for nearly 150 stranded migrants

  India | April 03, 2020 18:33 IST

  India TV had on March 27 reported on the plight of these migrants, stranded at Mumbai's Lokmanya Tilak Terminus station, who were unable to travel back to their respective hometowns due to disruption in railway services

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  Arrange bhajan, namaz to prevent panic among migrants: SC to Centre

  India | March 31, 2020 16:38 IST

  The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to rope in community leaders of various faiths to conduct 'bhajan-kirtan' and 'namaz' to check panic among migrant workers in shelter homes amid the coronavirus outbreak.

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  Major lapse: Buses full of migrants allowed out of Ranchi

  India | March 31, 2020 16:00 IST

  As the fear of community spread of coronavirus looms large, a major lapse on the part of the Jharkhand government officials has emerged in Ranchi. The District Magistrate allowed 8 buses full of people to move out of the city on March 29 without getting them medically tested.

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  Migrants from Etawah quarantine in schools post return from neighbouring states

  News | March 30, 2020 16:21 IST

  Migrant workers who have returned to the various villages of UP's Etawah district from Delhi and other places, are being quarantined at the local primary schools and junior schools which have been turned into quarantine centres.

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  Bodies of five women recovered from capsized boat in Italy

  World | November 25, 2019 7:04 IST

  Italian rescuers saved a total of 149 people, including 133 men, 13 women, and three children, in the aftermath of the shipwreck, but survivors said some 20 people are missing.  

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  Trump administration pays NGOs who helped migrants

  World | October 12, 2019 18:50 IST

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized $7.8 million in an initial wave of funding, part of $30 million in aid set aside for border communities in a $4.6 billion emergency aid package Congress approved in June that mostly went to federal agencies.

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  250 migrant children in Texas moved from 'horrific cells' after outcry

  World | June 25, 2019 18:41 IST

  At least 250 migrant children have been moved from an overcrowded border station in the US state of Texas where they had been "locked up in horrific cells with an open toilet in the middle of the room", the media reported.