At least 6 migrants have been killed and 4 others are critically injured after a UP roadways bus hit them near Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur border. The injured have been referred to Meerut Medical college.
As railways to resume services of select trains from today, Section 144 has been imposed in nearby areas around the New Delhi Railway Station as a precautionary measure.
Despite special trains being run to repatriate stranded labourers amid lockdown, several still continue to face hardships.
Ever since the Railway on Sunday announced to resume special/select passenger train services from tomorrow (Tuesday, May 12) onwards, several migrants took to New Delhi railways in order to purchase tickets on Monday not knowing that tickets can be booked using only IRCTC's official website.
The South Eastern Railway has decided to reduce the speed of all goods and special trains to 40 km per hour in its Kharagpur-Bhadkar section till Monday morning owing to the movement of migrant workers at different places along the railway tracks, an official said in Kolkata on Sunday.
The trains will be separate from 'Shramik Special' trains for stranded migrants, which will continue to ply as they are now, the Railways has said
With the Centre taking a considerate stand on operating non-stop trains to carry migrant labourers stuck in various states, which will help them to return to their home states, Kerala on Friday started the registration process for it.
India TV had on March 27 reported on the plight of these migrants, stranded at Mumbai's Lokmanya Tilak Terminus station, who were unable to travel back to their respective hometowns due to disruption in railway services
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to rope in community leaders of various faiths to conduct 'bhajan-kirtan' and 'namaz' to check panic among migrant workers in shelter homes amid the coronavirus outbreak.
As the fear of community spread of coronavirus looms large, a major lapse on the part of the Jharkhand government officials has emerged in Ranchi. The District Magistrate allowed 8 buses full of people to move out of the city on March 29 without getting them medically tested.
Migrant workers who have returned to the various villages of UP's Etawah district from Delhi and other places, are being quarantined at the local primary schools and junior schools which have been turned into quarantine centres.
Italian rescuers saved a total of 149 people, including 133 men, 13 women, and three children, in the aftermath of the shipwreck, but survivors said some 20 people are missing.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized $7.8 million in an initial wave of funding, part of $30 million in aid set aside for border communities in a $4.6 billion emergency aid package Congress approved in June that mostly went to federal agencies.
At least 250 migrant children have been moved from an overcrowded border station in the US state of Texas where they had been "locked up in horrific cells with an open toilet in the middle of the room", the media reported.
Portugal will take 10 migrants while Ireland and Romania have said they will take five migrants each, the sources said.
"I meant to say that local people should get preference (in employment). And this is everywhere. I did not say anything new. It is everywhere. Is it not so in Gujarat (that locals get preference in jobs)?," he told reporters.
In Bhopal, Nath had said, "Lot of industries are set up in which people from other states, like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, come to work. I do not want to criticise them, but the youth of Madhya Pradesh are deprived (of jobs)."
According to reports, over 1,000 migrants have arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana.
About a thousand migrants, including women and children, were still stranded on a border bridge hoping to enter Mexico legally via Guatemala.
Attack on North Indians continues in parts of Gujarat despite assurance from CM Vijay Rupani
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