Polling in Samserganj and Jangipur Assembly seats in Murshidabad on Thursday turned out to be a peaceful affair and recorded high turnout of voters, mostly migrant labourers who had come home to exerc...

No state barring Telangana and Meghalaya has so far sought additional foodgrain from the Centre for providing free rations to migrant workers in pursuance of a Supreme Court judgment in June, an RTI r...

Senior police officers and officials of North Dinajpur district administration have blamed the pathetic condition of NH12 – which is maintained by the National Highways Authority of India for th...

A private bus carrying migrant workers and their family members from Jharkhand to Lucknow went off NH12 at Rupahar near here on Wednesday night, injuring many of the 70-odd passengers. North Dinajpur...

The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to give free foodgrains to migrant workers living in Bengal under the “one nation one ration card” programme. “The Centre provides rice at...

A 52-year-old migrant worker from Malda district was bludgeoned to death at Jamnagar, Gujarat, on Friday. Fudan Mondal’s body reached his village, Kankania, in Harishchandrapur 2 block on Sunda...

Three migrant labourers, including a father and son, were mowed down by a speeding train around Sunday midnight at Berhampur in southern Odisha. Four labourers had a narrow escape in the incident. G...

Sold off Sir — The Bharatiya Janata Party keeps saying that no development work was done by the Congress in 70 years. Yet, the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has now identified State ass...

Migrant workers have become symbols of all that is not well with the Indian economy and society. Covid-19 brought their precarious living conditions to light. They have low wages, live in spaces far a...

The Jharkhand government has questioned Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on the welfare of the state's migrant workers engaged in its projects...