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How Life has CHANGED for Bihar's Bicycle Girl

'Thanks to monetary help from several people, we are comfortable and living...

Why India doesn't have any data on migrant workers

Will the government wait for a new law or start counting the invisible...

6 months on, migrants caught between hope and despair

Six months after the lockdown was imposed, two dozen migrant workers were...

Opposition attacks Centre on migrant workers crisis

Several opposition members, including from the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham and...

Dom's Take: Who cares for dead migrants?

Dominic Xavier is puzzled by the government revelation that it has no idea...

Migrants must not bear cost of Covid: Centre to states

Labour ministry guidelines say workers returning to cities must get housing,...

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Hunger, hopelessness driving migrants back to cities

The employers, many of whom had virtually abandoned the migrant labourers,...

Cured migrant workers turn 'Corona Warriors' in WB

Forty-nine migrant workers have been inducted by the state government as...

WB didn't handle migrants issue properly: Bombay HC

'The government there at one point did not even permit migrant labourers to...

Don't charge migrants for bus/train back home, says SC

The apex court, which passed interim directions, said all migrant workers who...

Migrants reach home after 'ride' of a lifetime

Recounting the experiences of the morning, one which they will remember all...

Back home, migrant workers stare at uncertain future

Migrants are no longer sure if they would be able to live by Modi's mantra of...

SC pulls up Maha govt for migrant crisis

Noting there have been instances of "excess" by police and paramilitary...

Amid China and Covid-19 let's not forget the migrants

If solutions are not found, adequately and in good time, things could simply...

'We want to give voice to the workers' misery'

In one case, the folks at SWAN discovered that of the Rs 1,500 they'd...

Mamata hits out at Centre over migrant trains to WB

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...

Child dies as man hunts for milk at railway station

The four-and-a-half-year-old son of Bihari migrants based in Delhi died at...

Delhi farmer sends 10 migrant workers home by plane

Their dreams of returning home finally taking wing after two months of...

PM launches employment scheme for migrant workers

Launching the scheme, Modi said during the nationwide lockdown, the talent...

Amitabh Bachchan arranges flights for migrants

Migrants hailing from Gonda, Ambedkar Nagar, Unnao and other parts in Uttar...

Will work till last migrant reaches home: Sonu Sood

The actor, who has been catapulted to the national spotlight for his work in...

SC takes cognisance of migrants' miseries

Referring to various media reports showing the 'unfortunate and miserable...

Shramik trains ferried 44 lakh migrants since May 1

Of the total trains, 2,875 have terminated, while 401 are in transit.The top...

11 migrants reach Bihar from Gurgaon on cycle rickshaw

Kumar had registered for the Shramik Special train.Everyday, he hoped his...

Send all migrants home within 15 days: SC to govts

The top court also directed authorities to consider withdrawing all cases...

Sushil Modi seeks new law to protect migrants

The senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader also said that the troubles of the...

'Huge lapses' by Maharashtra in managing migrants: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the worst Covid-19 affected state of...

'Greatest man-made tragedy in India since Partition'

Cautioning that there will be social and psychological consequences for the...

Tejashwi reaches out to migrant whose photo went viral

The RJD leader was moved by the latter's tale of grief and loss and made his...

Students, migrants take 1st flight as services resume

Those who took first flights from the Indira Gandhi International Airport...

Sonu Sood stopped from meeting migrants

A Mumbai Police official said the actor was stopped by the Railway Protection...

We might have made some mistakes: Shah on migrants

'We might have lacked somewhere but our commitment was absolute. We might...

SC says 15 days enough to send migrants home

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, SK Kaul and MR Shah took note of the...

No end to migrants' struggle even after reaching home

The corona-fuelled lockdown having shattered their dreams, they are now...

SEE: Safar, a moving video on the migrants' long march

'I have dedicated the video to the kindest people of this great nation.'

Feeling 'cheated' by parties, migrants vow not to vote

'All governments disappointed us. Now we don't have faith in any of them'

AAP's Sanjay Singh to send 33 migrants home by flights

The decision was praised by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who said it...

Migrant worker dies on Shramik train in UP

The death triggered panic in the compartment with people suspecting that...

Urban India's SELFISH response to migrant distress

'Politicians's slogans on social distancing, showered like petals from their...

Exodus shatters migrant kids' 'Big-city school' dreams

'I like it when my daughter talks in English fluently. She is smarter in...

Train ferrying migrants from Maha to UP reaches Odisha

The Railways said it had intentionally changed the route.

Why the poor won't trust this government anymore

'"We have lost our jobs, we have lost our savings, we have been beaten up for...

Dom's Take: Modi and the migrants

All the real and imagined achievements of the Modi government's first year in...

How law school alumni helped these migrants fly home

Shyel Trehan, an alumna of the 2000 batch of the National Law School, was one...

Sonu Sood airlifts Odisha migrants from Kerala

The group, comprising on 147 women and 20 men, were airlifted by an Air Asia...

Chaos at Palace Grounds as migrants wish to go home

Officials said 1,500 people had registered to return to their respective...

Cong releases film on Rahul's meet with migrants

The documentary captures the pain and helplessness the migrant labourers and...

Dom's Take: The Migrant Marathon

Dominic Xavier's take on the horrific hardships millions of migrants have...