The postal department will release a special cover dedicated to the migrant workers of Mumbai in the Bicentennial Hall of General Post Office (GPO), Fort, May 13. In fact five migrants from different sectors of the labour force will unveil the tribute.

South Western Railway, along with the state government, is likely to operate the first train to West Bengal to ferry migrant workers on Sunday.

Maharashtra Police found over 300 migrant workers holed up inside two container trucks meant for carrying essential commodities from Telangana to Rajasthan.

'I am jobless and don't have savings to sustain. Better I go home and do farming. If I am lucky, I will survive'

Hundreds of migrant workers from Delhi, Haryana and even Punjab reached Anand Vihar, Ghazipur and Ghaziabad's Lal Kuan area after taking arduous treks of many kilometers on foot to take buses to their respective native places

Thousands of migrants were stranded in places across the country since the lockdown was enforced on March 25, many even attempting to walk home.

Appearing impatient to return to their native places, migrant workers pelted stones at police in Surat district of Gujarat on Monday, leaving nearly a dozen personnel injured, one of them an IPS officer, and also held protests elsewhere during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, officials said.

A day after opposition parties, including the Congress launched a scathing attack against the Union government and the railways for charging money from migrants for the travel, sources in the railways said the national transporter is spending around Rs 80 lakh per service for the special trains, and it has run 67 such trains carrying around 67,000 stranded migrants since May 1--- incurring an expenditure of over Rs 50 crore.

25 returnees from Gulf in quarantine in Pathanamthitta

Over 500 migrants from across India stuck in Dhubri

The accident took place near Patha village on Saturday night when nearly 20 migrant labourers were going in the truck to Jhansi

Help extended to migrant workers by PRC-19

It urges COVID-19 Task Force Committee chief to approve two Shramik Specials

A group headed to Bhubaneswar is now housed in shelters

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

‘They are unwilling to stay put in quarantine centres despite facilities’

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.