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A woman (C) speaks on her phone on a bus before being taken to a quarantine facility after arriving from Mumbai. (AFP)

Mumbai returnee tag stigmatises guest workers

Villagers are scared that guest workers returned from places with high number of corona positives will spread the virus

27 May 2020 6:28 AM

Migrant workers eat in the dining area onboard the SuperStar Gemini cruise ship, currently used to accommodate foreign workers who have recovered from the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre terminal in Singapore. (AFP)

Singaporean cooks up Eid feast for guest workers in lockdown

There are about 300,000 foreign labourers in Singapore, most of them from Bangladesh, China and India

25 May 2020 5:12 AM

Police personnel stand guard as a train carrying migrants from Mumbai arrives at Jashidih station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Deoghar, Friday, May 22, 2020. (PTI)

Shramik Special train leaves UP natives stranded in Odisha

Tall claims by the Railways and Maharashtra government fall flat

24 May 2020 3:51 AM

Government had brought back over five lakh migrants, mostly by buses, (PTI Photo)

5 lakh guest workers brought back to Madhya Pradesh

At least 3.52 lakh migrants have returned to MP by buses while 1.46 lakh others returned on 119 special trains

23 May 2020 4:39 AM

A policeman disperses guest workers gathered outside Mumbai railway station. (AFP)

Guest workers more prone to virus due to malnutrition and low immunity

Most guest workers, with proximity to clusters and bad health conditions, could be asymptomatic carriers of virus

20 May 2020 5:27 AM

Migrant workers from Maharashtra walk along a National Highway 44 during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown. (AFP Photo)

Over 15K guest workers returning to Maharashtra daily: Officials

Maharashtra had sent more than 12 lakh migrant labourers to their respective states by 488 special Shramik trains during...

19 Jun 2020 6:27 AM

A guest worker cooks by the road side after being stranded away from her home town due to the lockdown imposed following coronavirus pandemic. PTI photo

Formulate employment schemes for guest workers: Supreme Court to...

Supreme Court ask states to formulate employment schemes for guest workers after they return to their hometown

9 Jun 2020 6:58 AM

Giving a wing to fly

Giving a wing to fly

Through the initiative AahanVaahan, a group of 50 lawyers pitched in to airlift guest workers from Mumbai to reunite...

8 Jun 2020 1:51 PM

Migrants arrive at Central Railway Station to board a Shramik Special train for West Bengal, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Chennai. PTI photo

Supreme Court to grant States, Centre 15 days to send back guest...

Centre said over 4,200 Shramik Special trains have been deployed to transport migrant workers to their native places

5 Jun 2020 9:22 AM

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Bus with guest workers falls into ditch near Etawah, 35 injured

Hearing screams of passengers, villagers rushed to the scene and pulled them out

5 Jun 2020 5:59 AM

Stranded migrants board a truck to reach their native places in Uttar Pradesh, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Bakania bypass in Bhopa. PTI Photo

Samajwadi Party distributes Rs 50L as assistance to guest workers,...

The leader said the relief was granted on the directions of party chief Akhilesh Yadav.

4 Jun 2020 8:42 AM

Mumbai: Health workers arrive to conduct door-to-door screening of residents of Dindoshi in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, at Goregaon East in Mumbai, Saturday. (PTI)

Coronavirus in India: Delhi may peak in a week, but the South has to...

There cannot be a uniform peak in COVID-19 cases in a large country like India, says expert.

25 July 2020 6:02 PM