Migrant labourers rendered jobless due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown now see a ray of hope in the coriander business. Large numbers of migrant labourers had returned to their native villages in...

A parliamentary committee is set to advise the government to register migrant labourers in their home and destination states so that they can get social security cover, at a time the pandemic-induced ...

Eighteen people were caught without wearing masks by police on Hazaribagh district collectorate campus on Monday. The police deployed at the three gates of the collectorate led by Sadar subdivisional ...

The Supreme Court on Friday granted a fortnight to states to come up with suitable plans of action to provide employment or other sources of livelihood to the lakhs of migrant labourers who have retur...

A youth who had tested positive for Covid-19 at a quarantine centre in East Midnapore’s Kolaghat was killed and a 21-year-old patient from a quarantine centre in Gopalnagar suffered serious injuries...

Amidst the fear and chaos generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, we witnessed the plight of migrant labourers across India. Even as the economy stands wrecked by the lockdown, various state governments, ...

The long-delayed widening and repair work on NH12 on the Farakka-Malda has received a further blow. Around 1,300 workers, skilled and unskilled, have stopped work since May 17 over unpaid salaries, ev...

Border Roads Organisation will recruit nearly 12,000 workers from Jharkhand and the first batch of 1,500 will leave Dumka on Friday.“The first train carrying 1,500 labourers from Santhal Pargana wil...

The death of a migrant labourer has brought to light a loophole in the emergency response system in Odisha in the time of Covid-19.Bipin Mallick, 37, could not be shifted to the hospital on time from ...

Lakhs of migrant workers who have returned or will return to Bengal in the wake of the Covid-induced prolonged lockdown, and have no ration cards, will get free ration for two months through coupons, ...