Friday, May 3, 2024

Topic: Migrants

Police lathicharge migrants as ten thousand gather at Mumbai’s Bandra station

Mumbai's Bandra West railway station was flooded with migrant laborers who were hoping to get back home as they expected the lockdown to end on Tuesday

Corona could devastate refugee, migrant and internally displaced without urgent international action

COVID-19 will almost certainly gain a foothold in refugee camps, crowded reception centers or detention facilities holding migrant families. Given how quickly the virus is spreading, such a scenario is looking imminent.

‘Want to go home, running out of food,’ migrant labourers hit streets in Kerala

As nationwide coronavirus pandemic controlled restrictions enter fifth day, hundreds of migrants took to streets this morning in Kerala's Kottayam, seeking transport services to go to their hometowns.

Returning migrants should stay in 14-day quarantine: UP govt

Thousands of migrant workers and daily wagers from northern states were seen scrambling to board buses to get home at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Saturday as a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus stripped them of livelihoods.

‘I tried to go out because of hunger, No other reason’, says Bihar daily wager

Abdulla Amir, a daily wage worker in Bihar's Araria has not earned a rupee in last week as the country battles coronavirus, forcing a nationwide lockdown.

Announce wage support for 44 million construction workers, Sonia writes PM Modi

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to roll out emergency welfare measures for construction workers and those in the unorganised sector due to the ongoing lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic.