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Durga In No Man's Land: Kolkata Pandal Highlights NRC, Migrant Crisis
A Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata, West Bengal, highlights the plight of those excluded from the National Register of Citizens.
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Adhir Chowdhury Urges Mamata Banerjee To Form New Department For Welfare Of Migrants
Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting her to create a new department exclusively dedicated to the welfare of the West Bengal migrants in view of the "sad plight" they face in India as well as abroad.
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"You Didn't Count So No One Died?" Rahul Gandhi Taunts PM Over Migrants
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is abroad for his mother Sonia Gandhi's health check-up, this morning tweeted a sharp retort to the government's response in parliament on Monday about the data of migrants' deaths during coronavirus lockdown.
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"No Less Than God For Us": Andhra Family After Sonu Sood Gifts Tractor
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has gifted a tractor to a farmer from Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district after a video of the farmer's young girls ploughing the fields with a yoke went viral on social media. Seeing their plight, Mr Sood, who has helped a massive number of migrant labourers stranded in cities to get home amid the coronavirus lockdown, cam...
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Youngsters In Delhi Rally To Raise Funds, Send 400 Stranded Migrants Home
Moved by the plight of migrant workers stranded in the national capital due to the coronavirus-imposed lockdown, a group of youngsters rallied together to raise a total of Rs 2.5 lakh rupees to send 400 of such migrants to their homes.
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UN Experts Hope India Will Promptly Implement Supreme Court Order On Migrants
UN independent experts have voiced deep concern over the plight of migrant workers in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic and expressed hope that the government will promptly implement the Supreme Court's order to alleviate their hardships.
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Centre, State Governments Not Worried About Plight Of Migrant Workers: Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday said that the Centre and State governments are not worried about the plight of migrant workers in the country.
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No Fares For Migrants, States, Railways To Provide Food: Supreme Court
The Railways should provide trains as and when the state governments put in a request and the migrants will not pay any fare, the Supreme Court said today in a series of orders to help stranded migrant labourers, whose plight has become one of the abiding images of the 60-day countrywide lockdown to control coronavirus.
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"Uniform Policy Needed" On Migrants' Travel: Supreme Court To Centre
The plight of the migrants travelling on special trains becoming clearer by the day with repeated reports of hunger, exhaustion and deaths, the Supreme Court today took up the issue, and asked some hard questions about what the Centre and states have done to help the people.
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20 Lawyers Claim "Apparent Indifference" By Supreme Court To Migrant Crisis
A day before the Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the "unfortunate and miserable" plight of migrant labourers, twenty prominent lawyers from Delhi and Mumbai had written a critical letter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde and other judges saying the top court's "apparent indifference" to the humanitarian crisis.
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Bengali Man Who Sold His Goats For Tickets Will Finally Fly Home
IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.
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At Railway Station In Madhya Pradesh, Migrants Loot Food Cart: Watch
A video of migrants looting a food cart at a railway station is doing the rounds in Madhya Pradesh, highlighting once again the plight of homebound migrant labourers, travelling for days without proper food and water. The video is one of many that surfaced over the last weeks, showing the hunger and desperation of the migrants, whose income dried u...
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PM's Humanity Of Washing Feet Of SafaiWorkers Has Vanished Now: Sanjay Raut
Taking a swipe at the Centre over the plight of migrant labourers amidst the coronavirus-induced lockdown, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the humanity shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by washing the feet of conservatory workers seems to have vanished now.
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BJP, Congress Equally Responsible For Plight Of Migrant Labourers: Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday held both the BJP and Congress responsible for the poor condition of migrant workers in the country amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
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In UP, Police Torture Migrants Who Missed Out On Masks
Two migrant labourers stretched out on a metalled road in the boiling heat, rolling from end to end, a couple of policemen, using batons on them if they stop. A video of this torture is being widely circulated in Uttar Pradesh, providing yet another facet of the plight of the migrant labourers, whose desperate exodus has been one of the most powerf...
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Durga In No Man's Land: Kolkata Pandal Highlights NRC, Migrant Crisis
A Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata, West Bengal, highlights the plight of those excluded from the National Register of Citizens.
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Adhir Chowdhury Urges Mamata Banerjee To Form New Department For Welfare Of Migrants
Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, requesting her to create a new department exclusively dedicated to the welfare of the West Bengal migrants in view of the "sad plight" they face in India as well as abroad.
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"You Didn't Count So No One Died?" Rahul Gandhi Taunts PM Over Migrants
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is abroad for his mother Sonia Gandhi's health check-up, this morning tweeted a sharp retort to the government's response in parliament on Monday about the data of migrants' deaths during coronavirus lockdown.
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"No Less Than God For Us": Andhra Family After Sonu Sood Gifts Tractor
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has gifted a tractor to a farmer from Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district after a video of the farmer's young girls ploughing the fields with a yoke went viral on social media. Seeing their plight, Mr Sood, who has helped a massive number of migrant labourers stranded in cities to get home amid the coronavirus lockdown, cam...
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Youngsters In Delhi Rally To Raise Funds, Send 400 Stranded Migrants Home
Moved by the plight of migrant workers stranded in the national capital due to the coronavirus-imposed lockdown, a group of youngsters rallied together to raise a total of Rs 2.5 lakh rupees to send 400 of such migrants to their homes.
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UN Experts Hope India Will Promptly Implement Supreme Court Order On Migrants
UN independent experts have voiced deep concern over the plight of migrant workers in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic and expressed hope that the government will promptly implement the Supreme Court's order to alleviate their hardships.
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Centre, State Governments Not Worried About Plight Of Migrant Workers: Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday said that the Centre and State governments are not worried about the plight of migrant workers in the country.
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No Fares For Migrants, States, Railways To Provide Food: Supreme Court
The Railways should provide trains as and when the state governments put in a request and the migrants will not pay any fare, the Supreme Court said today in a series of orders to help stranded migrant labourers, whose plight has become one of the abiding images of the 60-day countrywide lockdown to control coronavirus.
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"Uniform Policy Needed" On Migrants' Travel: Supreme Court To Centre
The plight of the migrants travelling on special trains becoming clearer by the day with repeated reports of hunger, exhaustion and deaths, the Supreme Court today took up the issue, and asked some hard questions about what the Centre and states have done to help the people.
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20 Lawyers Claim "Apparent Indifference" By Supreme Court To Migrant Crisis
A day before the Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the "unfortunate and miserable" plight of migrant labourers, twenty prominent lawyers from Delhi and Mumbai had written a critical letter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde and other judges saying the top court's "apparent indifference" to the humanitarian crisis.
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Bengali Man Who Sold His Goats For Tickets Will Finally Fly Home
IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.
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At Railway Station In Madhya Pradesh, Migrants Loot Food Cart: Watch
A video of migrants looting a food cart at a railway station is doing the rounds in Madhya Pradesh, highlighting once again the plight of homebound migrant labourers, travelling for days without proper food and water. The video is one of many that surfaced over the last weeks, showing the hunger and desperation of the migrants, whose income dried u...
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PM's Humanity Of Washing Feet Of SafaiWorkers Has Vanished Now: Sanjay Raut
Taking a swipe at the Centre over the plight of migrant labourers amidst the coronavirus-induced lockdown, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the humanity shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by washing the feet of conservatory workers seems to have vanished now.
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BJP, Congress Equally Responsible For Plight Of Migrant Labourers: Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday held both the BJP and Congress responsible for the poor condition of migrant workers in the country amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
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In UP, Police Torture Migrants Who Missed Out On Masks
Two migrant labourers stretched out on a metalled road in the boiling heat, rolling from end to end, a couple of policemen, using batons on them if they stop. A video of this torture is being widely circulated in Uttar Pradesh, providing yet another facet of the plight of the migrant labourers, whose desperate exodus has been one of the most powerf...
