Newspaper Headlines: Cyclone Amphan To Hit Bengal Today, Heavy Rain In Bengal, Odisha & Other Top Stories

Hindustan Times is leading with Cyclone Amphan poised to slam into West Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday afternoon, packing winds gusting to a speed of 185 kmph, bringing with it torrential rainfall. Twenty-two people were killed in separate road accidents in five states on Tuesday, taking the number of deaths in such incidents involving migrant labourers to at least 162 during the lockdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

The Asian Age is leading with the number of coronavirus cases crossing the one lakh mark in the country on Tuesday, while the number of deaths due to the infection touched 3,163, according to the Union Health Ministry. The Congress has called a meeting of like-minded opposition parties on Friday to discuss the plight of migrant workers and the changes in labour laws by some states, sources said.

The Telegraph: Migrant workers from West Midnapore approached the local administration in Surat to find a way of returning home, they were told Wesr Bengal wasn't interested in receiving back its stranded labourers. A woman had borrowed money from a moneylender so her son could pay his share of the bus fare for the journey back home to Nadia, over 2,200km from workplace Bangalore.