Bengal Labourers

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met the wife and child of a labourer from the state who was killed in Haryana over suspicion of consuming beef.

All occupants of the van were residents of Chituri village, and they were on their way to Margram to work in the paddy fields.

Baruipur, Jun 3 Three brothers from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, who were travelling to Tamil Nadu in search of work, lost their lives in the train crash in Odisha's Balasore, officials said on Saturday.

As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.

The Centre has increased West Bengal's labour budget for creation of 27 crore person-days under the MGNREGA scheme, a decision, which senior officials of the state said, was prompted by the Mamata Banerjee government's move to meet financial

Four crore workers have registered themselves with e-shram portal, with maximum registrations from Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh

The alleged rape of a minor girl by a migrant labourer from West Bengal and the demand by the girl's parents and local people urging the police to hand over the accused following his arrest led to tense moments at a police station.

A vehicle in West Bengal Labour Minister Becharam Manna's convoy met with an accident near the Manicktala-Rajabazar area in Kolkata today, injuring three people, the police said.

A 12-year-old boy, survivor of child trafficking and child labour was made the chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) for an hour, an official said.

Captech Technologies has decided to bring back more than 10,000 labourers through its eFORCE platform from states such as West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan

West Bengal Labour Minister rode a cycle for 38 km today to protest against the rising fuel prices in the country.

The West Bengal government on Monday started the Covid-19 vaccination on boat programme in an island of Sundarbans and inoculated 150 people, most of whom are migrant labourers, South 24 Parganas District Magistrate P Ulganathan said.

Congratulatory tweets are pouring in for BJP's Chandana Bauri, the wife of a daily wage earner, who is has won from the Saltora constituency in West Bengal.

The bomb attack on West Bengal Labour Minister Jakir Hossain was part of a conspiracy because "some people were pressuring" him to join their party, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today, comparing it to the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in the 1990s. She also held Indian Railways responsible for the incident since it took ...

West Bengal CID takes over the case, in which state Labour Minister Jakir Hossain suffered injuries, after unidentified people hurled a bomb at him in Murshidabad on Wednesday, sources said on Thursday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met the wife and child of a labourer from the state who was killed in Haryana over suspicion of consuming beef.

All occupants of the van were residents of Chituri village, and they were on their way to Margram to work in the paddy fields.

Baruipur, Jun 3 Three brothers from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, who were travelling to Tamil Nadu in search of work, lost their lives in the train crash in Odisha's Balasore, officials said on Saturday.

As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight "traffickers" were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station here, the Telangana Police said.

The Centre has increased West Bengal's labour budget for creation of 27 crore person-days under the MGNREGA scheme, a decision, which senior officials of the state said, was prompted by the Mamata Banerjee government's move to meet financial

Four crore workers have registered themselves with e-shram portal, with maximum registrations from Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh

The alleged rape of a minor girl by a migrant labourer from West Bengal and the demand by the girl's parents and local people urging the police to hand over the accused following his arrest led to tense moments at a police station.

A vehicle in West Bengal Labour Minister Becharam Manna's convoy met with an accident near the Manicktala-Rajabazar area in Kolkata today, injuring three people, the police said.

A 12-year-old boy, survivor of child trafficking and child labour was made the chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) for an hour, an official said.

Captech Technologies has decided to bring back more than 10,000 labourers through its eFORCE platform from states such as West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan

West Bengal Labour Minister rode a cycle for 38 km today to protest against the rising fuel prices in the country.

The West Bengal government on Monday started the Covid-19 vaccination on boat programme in an island of Sundarbans and inoculated 150 people, most of whom are migrant labourers, South 24 Parganas District Magistrate P Ulganathan said.

Congratulatory tweets are pouring in for BJP's Chandana Bauri, the wife of a daily wage earner, who is has won from the Saltora constituency in West Bengal.

The bomb attack on West Bengal Labour Minister Jakir Hossain was part of a conspiracy because "some people were pressuring" him to join their party, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today, comparing it to the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in the 1990s. She also held Indian Railways responsible for the incident since it took ...

West Bengal CID takes over the case, in which state Labour Minister Jakir Hossain suffered injuries, after unidentified people hurled a bomb at him in Murshidabad on Wednesday, sources said on Thursday.