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At 8,938, Migrant Deaths Hit Record Last Year: UN Agency
Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people confirmed to have died on perilous routes that include crossing the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean Sea, the UN migration agency said on Friday.
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3 Migrant Workers From UP Burnt To Death After Tent House Catches Fire In Delhi
Three migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh were burnt to death early Tuesday when a tent in which they were sleeping caught fire in East Delhi's Anand Vihar area. A case of causing death by negligence was registered by police.
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High Court Upholds Migrant Worker's Death Sentence For Rape, Murder Of Girl
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday upheld the order of a lower court which sentenced, to death, the convict in the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in Hyderabad.
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"Held On To Hope, Maybe He Got Out": Family Of Indians Killed In Kuwait Fire
Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport Friday as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home.
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Baltimore Tragedy Highlights Role Of Migrants In US Workforce
The death of six Latino workers who were fixing potholes when a Baltimore bridge collapsed highlights the crucial role immigrants play in keeping America running, say advocates.
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5-Year-Old Raped, Strangled, Dumped In A Sack Near Kerala Market
In a heart-wrenching incident that has left the Kerala society in shock, a minor girl was brutally raped and strangulated to death after she was abducted by a migrant worker from her house, police said on Saturday.
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Kenyan Stadium Guard's Death In Qatar Turns Focus On Migrant Workers
A security guard from Kenya who reportedly fell while on duty at Qatar's Lusail Stadium has died in hospital, CNN reported.
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Qatar Probing Migrant Worker Death At World Cup Site: Official
World Cup host Qatar is investigating the death of a migrant worker, an official said Thursday, after reports he died at a training base during the ongoing football tournament.
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1 Migrant Worker Killed, 4 Injured In Manipur Blast
At least one person was killed and four others were injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded at a community hall in central Manipur's Thoubal district early morning on Monday, police said.
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11 Bihar Migrant Workers Burnt To Death In Huge Godown Fire In Telangana
Secunderabad Fire: At least eleven people were killed in a massive fire that broke out at a timber godown in Telangana's Secunderabad in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Man Sentenced To Death For Rape, Murder Of 2-Year-Old Girl In Gujarat
A POCSO court in Surat on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old migrant worker for raping and murdering a two-and-a-half-year-old girl last month here in Gujarat, terming it as the "rarest of rare" case.
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8,700 People Died On Railway Tracks In 2020 Despite Reduced Train Services
Over 8,700 people were mowed down on railway tracks in 2020 even though passenger train services were severely curtailed during the year due to the national coronavirus lockdown, with officials saying many of the victims were migrant workers.
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Railway Minister Piyush Goyal Says 97 Migrants Died On Shramik Trains During COVID-19 Lockdown
The government has informed the Rajya Sabha that 97 people died on board the Shramik Specials, admitting for the first time that migrant labourers lost their lives in the trains which were run to ferry them during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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"1,30,000 vs 600" Covid Deaths: PM Compares 4 European Countries With UP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said Uttar Pradesh, with a population size the same as four European countries badly hit by the coronavirus, had only a fraction of their death count because of its singular efforts in fighting the deadly contagion.
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Maharashtra Spent Rs 100 Crore On Over 11 Lakh Migrants' Travel: Minister
The Maharashtra government has spent Rs 100 crore on transporting more than 11 lakh migrant labourers to their home states without waiting for any Central aid, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Saturday.
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At 8,938, Migrant Deaths Hit Record Last Year: UN Agency
Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people confirmed to have died on perilous routes that include crossing the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean Sea, the UN migration agency said on Friday.
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3 Migrant Workers From UP Burnt To Death After Tent House Catches Fire In Delhi
Three migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh were burnt to death early Tuesday when a tent in which they were sleeping caught fire in East Delhi's Anand Vihar area. A case of causing death by negligence was registered by police.
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High Court Upholds Migrant Worker's Death Sentence For Rape, Murder Of Girl
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday upheld the order of a lower court which sentenced, to death, the convict in the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in Hyderabad.
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"Held On To Hope, Maybe He Got Out": Family Of Indians Killed In Kuwait Fire
Grieving families kept a solemn vigil in the terminal of an Indian airport Friday as the bodies of dozens of migrant workers killed in a Kuwait building fire returned home.
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Baltimore Tragedy Highlights Role Of Migrants In US Workforce
The death of six Latino workers who were fixing potholes when a Baltimore bridge collapsed highlights the crucial role immigrants play in keeping America running, say advocates.
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5-Year-Old Raped, Strangled, Dumped In A Sack Near Kerala Market
In a heart-wrenching incident that has left the Kerala society in shock, a minor girl was brutally raped and strangulated to death after she was abducted by a migrant worker from her house, police said on Saturday.
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Kenyan Stadium Guard's Death In Qatar Turns Focus On Migrant Workers
A security guard from Kenya who reportedly fell while on duty at Qatar's Lusail Stadium has died in hospital, CNN reported.
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Qatar Probing Migrant Worker Death At World Cup Site: Official
World Cup host Qatar is investigating the death of a migrant worker, an official said Thursday, after reports he died at a training base during the ongoing football tournament.
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1 Migrant Worker Killed, 4 Injured In Manipur Blast
At least one person was killed and four others were injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded at a community hall in central Manipur's Thoubal district early morning on Monday, police said.
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11 Bihar Migrant Workers Burnt To Death In Huge Godown Fire In Telangana
Secunderabad Fire: At least eleven people were killed in a massive fire that broke out at a timber godown in Telangana's Secunderabad in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Man Sentenced To Death For Rape, Murder Of 2-Year-Old Girl In Gujarat
A POCSO court in Surat on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old migrant worker for raping and murdering a two-and-a-half-year-old girl last month here in Gujarat, terming it as the "rarest of rare" case.
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8,700 People Died On Railway Tracks In 2020 Despite Reduced Train Services
Over 8,700 people were mowed down on railway tracks in 2020 even though passenger train services were severely curtailed during the year due to the national coronavirus lockdown, with officials saying many of the victims were migrant workers.
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Railway Minister Piyush Goyal Says 97 Migrants Died On Shramik Trains During COVID-19 Lockdown
The government has informed the Rajya Sabha that 97 people died on board the Shramik Specials, admitting for the first time that migrant labourers lost their lives in the trains which were run to ferry them during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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"1,30,000 vs 600" Covid Deaths: PM Compares 4 European Countries With UP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said Uttar Pradesh, with a population size the same as four European countries badly hit by the coronavirus, had only a fraction of their death count because of its singular efforts in fighting the deadly contagion.
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Maharashtra Spent Rs 100 Crore On Over 11 Lakh Migrants' Travel: Minister
The Maharashtra government has spent Rs 100 crore on transporting more than 11 lakh migrant labourers to their home states without waiting for any Central aid, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Saturday.
