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...

Bengal saw a drop in the number of active Covid-19 cases for the second time as the patients’ count fell from 5,693 on Saturday to 5,552 on Sunday, which was aided by 518 discharges, the highest 24-...

The state government will roll out a farmers’ relief scheme, modalities for which are being fine-tuned, with an initial budgetary allocation of Rs 100 crore, agriculture minister Badal Patralesh has...

Residents of three villages in Hooghly’s Goghat have hatched a plan to help 16 jobless migrant workers who are back home from Gujarat and Maharashtra. To help the 16 migrants put their lives back on...

To provide a cushion to the barefooted migrant workers and other daily wage earners walking on the heated roads in summer, Dhanbad district administration, in association with the Federation of Dhanba...

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...

Four more chartered flights, carrying more than 200 stranded migrants, is scheduled to land in Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Airport from Monday from Leh in continuation of efforts spearheaded by chief minis...

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...

Jharkhand has managed to test barely 14 per cent of the 4 lakh migrant workers who have returned to the state and doctors managing Covid cases fear the number of cases, that has seen a six-fold spike ...

A bicycle store worker has died of injuries after he was clubbed with a bamboo pole when he confronted a returned migrant in the market and asked him why he was not conforming to quarantine norms in E...