Migrant Crisis Up

Migrants in New York City are being offered free one-way plane tickets to anywhere in the world as the city contents with a crunch of resources due to an influx of people from the Southern border.

The United States said Saturday it would ramp up deportation flights for thousands of migrants who flooded into the Texas border city of Del Rio, as authorities scramble to alleviate a burgeoning crisis for President Joe Biden's administration.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that it was matter of great happiness that the Supreme Court had acknowledged the UP model of handling migrants during the Covid pandemic.

A migrant worker in Uttar Pradesh - forced to return to his hometown from Tamil Nadu with his family last month after his landlord asked him to leave - had to sell his wife's jewelry for Rs 1,500 in a local market in Kannauj to buy food and medicines amid lack of means.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday took on actor Sonu Sood, saying that the opposition BJP had propped up the actor to show the Uddhav Thackeray government in poor light by offering help to migrant workers from north India stranded in Maharashtra.

The states will get 15 more days to transport migrants home from the cities amid the coronavirus lockdown, the Supreme Court said today, adding it will pass an order on the issue of stranded migrants on Tuesday. Today's hearing came days after the Supreme Court took up the issue on its own and passed several orders to the states to help them reach ...

While migrants labourers are leaving Mumbai in hordes, many who had better jobs are also leaving the city as they don't expect their jobs to resume any time soon. Mumbai's entertainment industry provides lakhs of jobs but with no opportunities now, many who were employed as set decorators, set assistants and make up assistants are leaving Mumbai.

A Rajasthan minister on Sunday claimed that hisstate government had kept 500 private buses ready to ferry migrant workers to Uttar Pradesh but they were not allowed to enter by the Yogi Adityanath government.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is indulging in "petty politics" by allegedly trying to make a "political capital" out of the migrant crisis, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Sidharth Nath Singh said today.

A 60-year-old migrant worker died in Uttar Pradesh this morning, three days after he began his journey to home with some of his family members from Maharashtra. The last meal he took was before he began his journey on Friday, according to his relatives.

The government is involved in relief work in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, about 200 km from state capital Lucknow, where 24 migrants were killed in a road accident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted this morning.

A central economic package to offset the revenue losses during the lockdown to combat coronavirus and autonomy in colour-coding the virus-hit districts were the two key demands of the states at their 6-hour videoconference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. PM Modi has assured them that the Centre is looking into ways to "open up the econ...

Nitish Kumar's rough patch with his ally continues, with a BJP leader going public with his criticism of the handling of the coronavirus crisis, the lockdown rules and the return of migrants and students stranded in other states.

Days after the central government cleared movement of stranded migrants, tourists and students amid a nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus, seven daily-wage labourers in Uttar Pradesh who recently returned from Maharashtra have tested positive for the highly infectious COVID-19.

The government's move to allow stranded migrant labourers to go home has been spurred by concerns about a political fallout, sources have told NDTV.

Migrants in New York City are being offered free one-way plane tickets to anywhere in the world as the city contents with a crunch of resources due to an influx of people from the Southern border.

The United States said Saturday it would ramp up deportation flights for thousands of migrants who flooded into the Texas border city of Del Rio, as authorities scramble to alleviate a burgeoning crisis for President Joe Biden's administration.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that it was matter of great happiness that the Supreme Court had acknowledged the UP model of handling migrants during the Covid pandemic.

A migrant worker in Uttar Pradesh - forced to return to his hometown from Tamil Nadu with his family last month after his landlord asked him to leave - had to sell his wife's jewelry for Rs 1,500 in a local market in Kannauj to buy food and medicines amid lack of means.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday took on actor Sonu Sood, saying that the opposition BJP had propped up the actor to show the Uddhav Thackeray government in poor light by offering help to migrant workers from north India stranded in Maharashtra.

The states will get 15 more days to transport migrants home from the cities amid the coronavirus lockdown, the Supreme Court said today, adding it will pass an order on the issue of stranded migrants on Tuesday. Today's hearing came days after the Supreme Court took up the issue on its own and passed several orders to the states to help them reach ...

While migrants labourers are leaving Mumbai in hordes, many who had better jobs are also leaving the city as they don't expect their jobs to resume any time soon. Mumbai's entertainment industry provides lakhs of jobs but with no opportunities now, many who were employed as set decorators, set assistants and make up assistants are leaving Mumbai.

A Rajasthan minister on Sunday claimed that hisstate government had kept 500 private buses ready to ferry migrant workers to Uttar Pradesh but they were not allowed to enter by the Yogi Adityanath government.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is indulging in "petty politics" by allegedly trying to make a "political capital" out of the migrant crisis, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Sidharth Nath Singh said today.

A 60-year-old migrant worker died in Uttar Pradesh this morning, three days after he began his journey to home with some of his family members from Maharashtra. The last meal he took was before he began his journey on Friday, according to his relatives.

The government is involved in relief work in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, about 200 km from state capital Lucknow, where 24 migrants were killed in a road accident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted this morning.

A central economic package to offset the revenue losses during the lockdown to combat coronavirus and autonomy in colour-coding the virus-hit districts were the two key demands of the states at their 6-hour videoconference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. PM Modi has assured them that the Centre is looking into ways to "open up the econ...

Nitish Kumar's rough patch with his ally continues, with a BJP leader going public with his criticism of the handling of the coronavirus crisis, the lockdown rules and the return of migrants and students stranded in other states.

Days after the central government cleared movement of stranded migrants, tourists and students amid a nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus, seven daily-wage labourers in Uttar Pradesh who recently returned from Maharashtra have tested positive for the highly infectious COVID-19.

The government's move to allow stranded migrant labourers to go home has been spurred by concerns about a political fallout, sources have told NDTV.