Additional police forces deployed at Polavarm; situation under control, says police

They complain of poor facilities and lack of food

Injustice to stranded workers if permission is denied, Amit Sah tells Mamata

A train with 1,140 migrant workers left Mangaluru Junction for Jharkhand on Saturday evening. The workers, who had registered on the Seva Sindhu app,

Arrival of a migrant labourer from Bagalkot in a truck has created panic among residents of Urwa in the city. People in the area insisted that he should be quarantined and undergo tests for Covid-19. In fact, the migrant labourer, who is a native of Bagalkot, was working in Mangaluru. He had gone to his native place in Bagalkot before the lockdown announcement in March.

One train to Bihar and two to Uttar Pradesh; each train ferries 1,140 passengers

Pending exams, answer script evaluation to be held in schools

Police officials are caught in a cleft stick as thousands of migrant workers are making bespoke arrangements to travel to their homes in different par

Postal dept to release special cover on migrant workers of Mumbai

As 70% staff at Mumbai petrol pumps are migrants, owners are a worried lot

PM must ask CMs to let in migrants: Pawar

Mumbai: Filled travel forms week ago, can’t wait, say fresh migrants on Eastern Express Highway

Amit Shah, Mamata govt in spat over migrants

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said the state borders were sealed not to deny entry to migrants but for their systematic entry into the state.

Every citizen has a legal right to return to their home, says State’s Chief Spokesperson on COVID-19

Asked about the incidents, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said he that he is aware of them.

First Shramik Special from Chennai Central will reach destination on Monday

The trio were among thousands of migrant workers who have set out on foot for their home states from Maharashtra in the last few weeks amid lockdown on account for coronavirus.

Most entering Madhya Pradesh from Maharashtra are headed to Uttar Pradesh.

Both claim they are footing the bill

Most of them are from West Bengal

It follows letter seeking reimbursement

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They were atop a heap of mangoes on the Agra-bound vehicle coming from Hyderabad.

An alert loco driver of a goods train saved the lives of at least 20 migrant workers by applying the emergency brakes and halting the train just 100 metres away from them near Pune on Friday evening. The migrants were walking on the tracks between the Uruli and Loni stations. The incident happened barely 14 hrs after 16 migrants were killed on Aurangabad tracks.

Sanjay Raut took to his official Twitter handle on Sunday to let know his suggestion via a post regarding the situation.

The funding will allow the National Science Resources Center to validate its LASER (Leadership Assistance for Science Education Reform) Model. LASER, a systemic approach to reform, is a set of processes and strategies designed to help state, district and school leadership teams effectively implement and sustain
high-quality science education for elementary, middle and secondary school students.

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Breitburg and her team want to determine just how much stress they cause. Over the next five years they will conduct a series of lab and field experiments that examine how diel-cycling hypoxia and the associated acidification affects the growth and disease rates in striped bass, the eastern oyster and other ecologically and economically important Chesapeake Bay species. They will also study the animals’ behavioral responses to these changes.

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