The Meghalaya government has tabled a legislation for protection and safety of migrant workers by identification and mandatory registration for all of them.On Friday, the first day of the Assembly’s...

A group of about 100 migrants heading home from Delhi was hosed down with a disinfectant solution in Bareilly town on Sunday, attracting wide condemnation and an admission from local authorities that ...

Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party is battling a BJP social media offensive blaming it for the exodus of migrant workers, all because it tried to help labourers set on leaving catch Yogi Adityanath’s ...

As many as 15 people have been crushed to death in Pune in a tragedy that has shone a torch on not only suspected reckless construction but also the wide income disparity in the country and the compul...

The Bengal government has decided to prepare a database of migrant labourers so that a health screening can be done when they return home from Covid-19-hit states such as Kerala and Maharashtra.Lakhs ...

No, it is not engineering goods or jewellery; it is human beings. The money they sent back in 2017 was $69 billion; it financed 43 per cent of the trade deficit. India received more in remittances tha...

With migrants and millennials flocking to cities for opportunities, the downtowns are already experiencing a space crunch. The trend is not local but global. Tokyo, Toronto, New Delhi, New York, Beiji...

Mohammed Sheikh’s mother had borrowed money from a moneylender so her son could pay his share of the bus fare for the journey back home to Nadia, over 2,200km from workplace Bangalore.Sheikh, a smal...

A string of Congress leaders on Monday castigated finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for her dig at Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with a group of homebound migrants, appearing to signal the start of a pol...

The Congress on Monday said the fiscal stimulus package announced by the government is 'hopelessly inadequate' given the gravity of the economic crisis as it amounts to only Rs 1.86 lakh crore, which ...