They have only minimum equipment for self protection

The labourers said there was no point in staying back in Gujarat without any income.

India has been put in lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. People have been told to stay indoors, but for many daily-wage earners this is not an option.

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

At the Ghazipur border, they huddled close together, only some with masks -- aware of the coronavirus threat that had led to an unprecedented 21-day lockdown of the country and taken away their jobs, but helpless to do anything about combating the infection.

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

They've created roughly 30 life-sized dolls to celebrate medical workers, police officers, farmers, postal workers, and shop assistants.

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.

25 returnees from Gulf in quarantine in Pathanamthitta

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

Nemcha Kipgen distributes PPEs to frontline workers

Help extended to migrant workers by PRC-19

AITUC District vice-president S.R. Devadass said though order were passed by the State government for additional incentives for those on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19, this was ‘conveniently ignored’ by municipal officials.

They can take care of riskier duties of the staff, says the company’s CEO

Jagan stresses screening of all suspect cases

A group headed to Bhubaneswar is now housed in shelters

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

The police on Thursday night sent back 90 migrant workers, from U.P., Rajasthan and Bihar, after they were found at Gundia check-post travelling in tw

As many as 289 migrant workers from Shivamogga district working outside the State who have returned to their native areas in the past one week have be

Responding to a demand from industries - many of which are struggling without labour even after relaxation - the government has instructed officials in the districts to facilitate movement of workers from various parts of Karnataka to Bengaluru and other industrial districts to kickstart the recovery process.

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

Unni Mukundan has a jolly interaction with healthcare workers

Lockdown in Tamil Nadu: 800 guest workers stage protest at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, attack cops

Seeking to return home, workers protest at under-construction site

Help workers in Gulf return: Cong

With government nod, industries set to ferry 20,000 workers to Bengaluru

Postal dept to release special cover on migrant workers of Mumbai

A government campaign to raise awareness seems to be helping, at least for medical workers