Special Buses For Migrants

The actor has received the award for selflessly helping stranded migrants during the coronavirus crisis by arranging food, buses, trains and chartered flights for them and providing them job opportunities

A special MP-MLA court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajai Kumar Lallu, arrested on charges of alleged forgery of documents of buses arranged by his party for ferrying stranded migrant labourers during the coronavirus lockdown.

A massive crowd of migrants gathered at a ground in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Monday to try and get on special trains to take them home.

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.

The allowance made for stranded migrant labourers to return home amid the countrywide lockdown is not open to anyone who want to return home, the states have been reminded by the Centre. Over the last few days, lakhs of migrant workers have registered to return to their homes in various states. Many of them have taken the special trains which the C...

Six "shramik (worker) special" trains, carrying migrants, students and others stranded by the coronavirus lockdown, departed from Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan on Friday. The trains, bound for Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were organised on request from the respective states, Railways said in a st...

Till last night, Nitish Kumar was so firmly against bringing back those from his state who are stranded elsewhere in the country that he described the proposition as "an injustice to the principle of (the) lockdown." His comment, made last week, served as self-defence - he was alone among major states in doing little to bring students and migrant w...

A 14-day quarantine in state-run camps is mandatory for lakhs of migrant labourers who are returning to their hometowns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in special buses amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus or COVID-19.

Amid the chaos caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, a distressing narrative has emerged from Delhi, where thousands of migrant workers are still trying desperately to return to hometowns and villages across the border in Uttar Pradesh

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that arranging special buses to send people to their native states amid a three-week nationwide lockdown over coronavirus or COVID-19 will lead to an "increase in the spread" of the virus.

The actor has received the award for selflessly helping stranded migrants during the coronavirus crisis by arranging food, buses, trains and chartered flights for them and providing them job opportunities

A special MP-MLA court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajai Kumar Lallu, arrested on charges of alleged forgery of documents of buses arranged by his party for ferrying stranded migrant labourers during the coronavirus lockdown.

A massive crowd of migrants gathered at a ground in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Monday to try and get on special trains to take them home.

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.

The allowance made for stranded migrant labourers to return home amid the countrywide lockdown is not open to anyone who want to return home, the states have been reminded by the Centre. Over the last few days, lakhs of migrant workers have registered to return to their homes in various states. Many of them have taken the special trains which the C...

Six "shramik (worker) special" trains, carrying migrants, students and others stranded by the coronavirus lockdown, departed from Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan on Friday. The trains, bound for Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were organised on request from the respective states, Railways said in a st...

Till last night, Nitish Kumar was so firmly against bringing back those from his state who are stranded elsewhere in the country that he described the proposition as "an injustice to the principle of (the) lockdown." His comment, made last week, served as self-defence - he was alone among major states in doing little to bring students and migrant w...

A 14-day quarantine in state-run camps is mandatory for lakhs of migrant labourers who are returning to their hometowns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in special buses amid a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus or COVID-19.

Amid the chaos caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, a distressing narrative has emerged from Delhi, where thousands of migrant workers are still trying desperately to return to hometowns and villages across the border in Uttar Pradesh

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that arranging special buses to send people to their native states amid a three-week nationwide lockdown over coronavirus or COVID-19 will lead to an "increase in the spread" of the virus.