The Congress on Tuesday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of indulging in petty politics over its offer to run buses for migrant workers and warned legal action against those defaming the party.'La...
The Supreme Court on Friday said it intends to give 15 days to the Centre and states for transporting all stranded migrant workers to their native places, commencing hearing on their plight during the...
The Bengal government has decided to take those jumping home quarantine to institutional quarantine centres amid reports that a lot of people are flouting the key rule of Covid-19 protocol which is re...
Right to Food Campaign (RtFC) and its partner organisations observed two minutes silence on Monday at various places across the state to mourn the lockdown induced deaths of migrant workers. The count...
The unemployment rate in rural India has increased by over 2 percentage points in the past week, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a private research group.The CMIE weekly ...
The row over Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arranging for buses for migrants in Uttar Pradesh has exposed, yet again, how difficult it is for good intentions to get past bureaucratic and political red tape in ...
They braved the lockdown but the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan was too much to bear.Disturbing visuals of a ravaged South 24-Parganas beamed continuously on television have forced a dozen migra...
Deputy commissioner Ramesh Gholap has started a Shramik Samman Kitchen to ensure proper food and scope to earn for quarantined migrant workers.Speaking to The Telegraph on Saturday, DC Gholap said tha...
Nine labourers heading home to Bihar from Calcutta died on Tuesday when the truck they had hitched a ride in collided head-on with a bus in Bhagalpur district in another highway tragedy involving migr...
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren has said that migrant workers from the state would have to henceforth seek the government’s permission before leaving.
“The government wants the work...