For Rajesh Ram, a cook who wasn’t making much since his return to Chatra because of the lockdown, one call from his former employer in Bangalore helped make up his mind. Last week he left for B...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday issued a direct appeal to the Prime Minister to grant from the PM CARES Fund a one-time assistance of Rs 10,000 each to migrant workers and those in the uno...

The detection of 32 Covid cases at one go in Cooch Behar has prompted the district administration to draw up plans to prevent further spread of the pandemic.Till Thursday, Cooch Behar had been the onl...

A one-month-old baby died of heat and dehydration on a Gorakhpur-bound Shramik Special train on Monday afternoon after having to travel for hours with fever through sweltering Bundelkhand, the second ...

State governments have been able to supply free foodgrain to only 20.36 lakh migrants who don’t have a ration card against the target of 8 crore such migrants, according to data released by the Unio...

A roti-machine that makes 1,000 pieces of the flat-bread every hour has ensured that the needy here do not go hungry during the COVID-19-induced lockdown, officials said.Installed at a community kitch...

At least 1,000 migrant workers stuck in Mumbai in the lockdown gathered near Bandra railway station on Tuesday afternoon, demanding to be allowed to return home, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Mo...

A group of young Calcuttans is using the network of its members in other cities to try and locate Bengal’s migrant workers who are still stuck there.The group, started by former students of Jadavpur...

The health ministry on Wednesday asked the states to “understand the issues of migrant workers” and provide them food, shelter and psychosocial support, the advisory coming a week into the lockdow...

Scientists on Wednesday asked the Indian government to use the remainder of the 21-day nationwide lockdown to find as many mild and asymptomatic coronavirus patients as possible, cautioning that witho...