Over 4,000 academics, retired bureaucrats, former judges and activists have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deploy the central forces and use their facilities to help the millions of stranded mi...

The Mamata Banerjee government has fine-tuned its Covid-19 protocol for migrant workers coming from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi and Tamil Nadu, where the disease has spread rapidly, in...

A Shramik Special train carrying 1,467 stranded migrant labourers and students from Kolhapur, Maharashtra, reached Bokaro station on Thursday morning.Around 67 buses were stationed at the station to s...

Twenty-six lakh people with 99 lakh mouths.No, it’s not a tale from the government’s beloved mythological texts but a logical inference from the migrant counts carried out by two of its arms.A lab...

The Bar Council of India has castigated critics who accuse the Supreme Court of failing to make governments accountable for the migrant workers’ sufferings, alleging “a conspiracy to weaken and br...

Migrant labourer Brajabandhu Rana, 42, had waited over nine weeks and travelled 1,900km to meet his wife and daughters. It was the last half kilometre that killed him.With just nine days left to compl...

A 46-year-old migrant labourer died on a Shramik Express train on Saturday after having had nothing to eat or drink for 60 hours, a nephew who was accompanying him has alleged.Raveesh Yadav said no fo...

Guddu Mandal, 30, who made a living as a ragpicker and labourer, died allegedly in his sleep in Bhagalpur city on Friday — the night after an epilepsy fit and after many days without a proper meal i...

Two young migrant workers, Vishal Bediya and Papu Bediya, walked almost 1,500km from Chennai in 21 days to reach their homes in a village in Garhwa district. The duo, who walked up to 50km a day, ofte...