The Centre on Friday issued an order allowing the movement of special trains to ferry migrant workers and others stranded outside their home states in the lockdown, two days after ordering that they w...

The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to set up 200 safe homes in Bengal to keep Covid-19 migrant workers with no symptoms or with mild symptoms as part of a move to stem the disease’s spread i...

Chief minister Hemant Soren's official send-off to migrant workers for a Border Road Organization (BRO) project, in a train scheduled to leave Dumka railway station on Friday afternoon, got cancelled ...

The Mamata Banerjee government has eased quarantine protocol further for those returning from Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat — five states with a high incidence of Covid-...

Residents of many villages in Murshidabad’s Behrampore who are employed in the construction sector in Kerala are glad they stayed back in the coastal state now that builders are getting back to work...

A Telangana town has become a home away from home for migrant workers during the ongoing Covid-19 lockout. While migrant workers elsewhere have hit streets seeking a return home, around 650 people, lo...

Migrant workers are indispensable to the Indian economy. The mobility of labour, studies suggest, pushes the wheels of the economy forward. It would also appear that migrant workers are indispensable ...

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Migrant labourers who leave their villages in search of work during non-agricultural months are stranded in cities across India, leaving their families fearful that their harvest-ready crops will with...

Worries about inequalities in countries such as India are aired regularly. What is not always discussed is the invisibility that goes with inequality. For example, when the whole of audible India was ...