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Tyrone Mings is feeling the strain of lockdown as the Aston Villa defender trains at local pitch

The Aston Villa and England defender has been following a personal fitness programme at his home with the club yet to return to group training at their Bodymoor Heath base.




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Jacqueline Jossa admits to admiring Dan Osborne's body as he trains in lockdown

Jacqueline Jossa has admitted to admiring Dan Osborne's body as he trains in lockdown - and says this time with her family was really needed for her.




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UK weather: Travel chaos with flights cancelled and trains delayed after storms

Flights were grounded or delayed at four London airports, passengers were stranded at Folkestone as Eurostar hit by delays and thunderstorms caused chaos.




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NYPD officers order homeless people off the empty subway trains

Officers from the NYPD were seen ordering homeless people off the subways on Thursday just a day after officials pledged to take action against them sleeping on empty trains.




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London Tubes and trains could start running 'scaled down' Saturday and Sunday services on weekdays

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says that steps could be brought in within a matter of days as the capital is weeks ahead of the rest of the country in terms of the curve of the Covid-19 outbreak.




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Coronavirus UK: Tfl staff threaten walkout as tube trains packed

Health Secretary Matt Hancock delivered a stinging rebuke to Sadiq Khan saying the Tube should be running 'in full' so essential workers do not have to be close together.




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Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson slams Sadiq Khan as trains packed

London's Tube network is packed again today as the Mayor of London was accused of 'risking lives' after slashing number of trains at a time of national emergency .




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Coronavirus UK: 12 different strains in March, one unique

Leading genetic scientists analysed the genomes of the killer virus in 260 infected patients from all corners of the UK. They say they have identified 12 unique mutations (shown).




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Experimental HIV vaccine may prevent dozens of strains of the virus

Researchers have created a new experimental vaccine that could neutralize dozens of strains of HIV by creating proteins that send antibodies to a vulnerable site of the virus.




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Chloe Lattanzi says she feels like an 'amateur' as she trains for Dancing With The Stars

Chloe Lattanzi is light on her feet after years of dance practice, but she's admitted the notoriously intense training for Dancing With The Stars has been tough. 




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Chloe Lattanzi trains for her Dancing With The Stars debut

Olivia Newton-John's daughter Chloe Lattanzi is set to debut on Dancing With The Stars next month.




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Britain's streets, trains, pubs, theatres and clubs are set to stay deserted

At a dramatic press conference in Downing Street, the PM set out the need for 'drastic action' to tackle the 'fast growth' of the virus across the UK as increased social distancing measures are introduced.




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Coronavirus UK: Sadiq Khan says packed Tube trains 'SAFE'

The Mayor of London said he was 'really worried' about the impact any easing of restrictions would have on public transport in the capital (pictured).




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Trains will return to running at 70% of normal timetable in 10 days

TfL, who operate London's underground network, are 'running the maximum frequency' of services possible. Fewer trains means commuters have been forced to cram into over-crowded carriages.




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Wayne Rooney trains with Derby County for the first time ahead of January move to Championship club

Wayne Rooney has trained with Derby for the first time as he prepares to join the Championship strugglers on an 18-month contract.




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Commuters despair as trains into London Waterloo are disrupted on top of severe delays to tubes

London commuters faced chaos this morning with disruption between Waterloo and Clapham Junction, on top of severe delays on two tube lines, the overground, TfL rail and Thameslink.




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Collectors buy watches, coins and Hornby trains to cash in on crisis

Experts say the trend is not unusual in times of economic uncertainty, where investors look for items that hold or increase in value while the stock markets are volatile.




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Former AFL star Josh Gibson trains with trainer in Sydney

Former AFL star Josh Gibson stepped out with a personal trainer on Monday. 




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DEALS OF THE WEEK: Trains to Paris from just £29; free pints and free cups of coffee

This week's deals include: a free pint of beer, a train to Paris from just £29, or - £58 return - with Eurostar and a free cup of coffee from Greggs.




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WB govt not allowing trains with migrants to reach state; Shah writes to Mamata

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said the West Bengal government is not allowing trains with migrant workers to reach the state that may further create hardship for the labourers. In a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Shah said not allowing trains to reach West Bengal is "injustice" to the migrant workers from the state. Referring to the 'Shramik Special' trains being run by the central government to facilitate transport of migrant workers from different parts of the country to various destinations, the home minister said in the letter that the Centre has facilitated more than two lakh migrants workers to reach home. Shah said migrant workers from West Bengal are also eager to reach home and the central government is also facilitating the train services. "But we are not getting expected support from the West Bengal. The state government of West Bengal is not allowing the trains reaching to West Bengal. This is injustice with West Bengal migrant labourers. This ...




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Centre is 'lying', planned eight trains to ferry migrants: TMC

The TMC on Saturday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of "lying" about the West Bengal government not allowing trains to reach the state, and said they have already planned eight trains to ferry migrants from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Telangana. The first train will be leaving on Saturday from Hyderabad to Malda, the TMC said. Shah on Saturday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying while the Centre has facilitated more than two lakh migrants to return home, it is not getting expected support from the state. "The Centre is lying, eight trains ready to ferry passengers to Bengal from different states: It is no right to say CM Mamata Banerjee not allowing migrants to come back.16 migrants died on your watch, will rail minister take responsibility," asked TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar. In a zoom meeting with several TMC MPs, including Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien, said West Bengal is running 711 camps for migrants in the state and were taking good care of ..




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Odisha trains 1.72 lakh health personnel to combat COVID-19 in state

The Odisha government has trained 1.72 lakh health personnel to fight COVID-19 in the state, where a spike in the number of positive cases was recently witnessed following the return of Odia migrant workers from other parts of the country, a senior official said. The state government has trained 1,72,499 health personnel to deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak, Chief Secretary A K Tripathy said while launching the 'COVID-19 workforce portal' here on Friday. Altogether 129 fresh novel coronavirus cases were reported in the state since May 3, when the return of the stranded migrant workers began. Of these, around 114 COVID-19 patients are returnees who were stranded in Gujarat, a health official said. A total of 8,023 doctors, 8,296 staff nurses, 4,105 paramedical staff and laboratory technicians, 4,114 AYUSH doctors, 4,905 ambulance drivers, 1,35,820 ANM/ASHA/AWW workers and 7,236 sanitation workers have been drafted into the COVID-19 workforce, Labour and ESI ...




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No proposal on record so far to run 'Shramik Special' trains to West Bengal: Railway officials

In a slugfest over the transportation of stranded migrants to West Bengal, railway officials on Saturday said there was no proposal on record so far with the national transporter to run any more 'Shramik Special' trains to the state. The Indian Railways reaction came minutes after the TMC said they have already planned to run eight trains to ferry migrants from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Telangana. The railway said they did not even have the proposal yet for the train, which the TMC claimed has been scheduled from Hyderabad to Malda on Saturday at 3 pm. The Indian Railways has so far run only two trains to West Bengal, one from Rajasthan and the other from Kerala. According to the guidelines issued by the railways for these trains, the proposal has to be received from both the states along with the number of passengers for these trains to run. The officials said the railways has 47 planned for Saturday so far, none of them were bound for West Bengal. The TMC on Saturday accused




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Bengal arranging special trains to bring back 30,000 stranded people: Official

The West Bengal government is arranging special trains to bring back over 30,000 residents of the state stranded in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Punjab due to the ongoing lockdown, a senior official said on Saturday. The stranded people are mostly migrant workers, patients and their attendants, students, pilgrims and tourists from West Bengal, he said. "Talks are on with officials of other state governments in this regard. Everything has been finalised.... Our nodal officers are monitoring developments," the official told PTI. A total of 31,224 people are stranded in the four states, of whom more than half (17,000) are in Telangana, he said. Three trains carrying around 7,500 people from West Bengal will start their journeys from Bengaluru in Karnataka on Saturday and reach their destinations -- Bankura, Purulia and New Jalpaiguri stations -- in the state on Sunday and Monday, the official said. Two trains with around 2,418 people, mostly patients, will depart Vellore in Tamil




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302 Shramik Special trains run so far, around 3.4 lakh migrants ferried: Railways

The Indian Railways has operated 302 Shramik Special' trains since May 1 and ferried home more than 3 lakh migrants stranded in various parts of the country amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, officials said. The national transporter has planned to operate 47 trains on Saturday, out of which 34 trains have already departed, they said. Every Shramik Special train has 24 coaches, each with a capacity of 72 seats. The railways, however, is allowing only 54 people in a coach to maintain social distancing norms by not allotting the middle berth to any passenger. While the railways has not yet announced the cost incurred on the special services, officials indicate the national transporter has spent around Rs 80 lakh per service. The government had earlier stated that the cost of the services has been shared on 85:15 ratio with states. Since the beginning of running the Shramik Special trains, Gujarat remained one of the top originating stations followed by Kerala. Among the receiving ...




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Over 1 lakh migrants to return to UP on 114 trains by Saturday night: Official

Over 1 lakh migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh stranded in different parts of the country following the coronavirus-induced lockdown will return to the state by Saturday night on 114 trains, a senior government official said. Another 98 trains will reach the state on Sunday and Monday, while talks are on to allow 15 to 20 more, he said on Saturday. "Till Saturday morning, 97 trains have reached the state and another 17 will reach by the evening. With this, more than 1.20 lakh migrant workers and labourers will be back in the state," Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Awasthi said. These trains arrived at 36 railway stations of the state, with Lucknow and Gorakhpur receiving 11 trains each, he said. Awasthi said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has stressed that no migrant should undertake the journey home on foot or bicycle. The government has also given permission for 98 more trains which will bring back migrants from other parts of the country on Sunday and Monday, he said, ...




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5 special trains to bring back 5,000 stranded Odias

Five special trains will start journey from three states on Saturday to bring back 5,000 stranded Odia people, a day after the Supreme Court allowed the return of migrants to Odisha, officials said here. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an interim order of the Orissa High Court which had asked the state government to ensure that only those tested negative for COVID-19 were allowed to return to Odisha. Three trains will come from Gujarat and one each from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, the officials said, adding that about 5,000 people will return to Odisha by these five trains. A senior East Coast Railways official said one of the five trains has already left from Surat for Odisha's Ganjam district. Two trains will leave from Ahmedabad in Gujarat for Khurda Road in Odisha, one train from Panvel station in Mumbai will start the journey to Odisha's Titlagarh in Bolangir district and another will leave from Chennai for Jagannathpur in Ganjam district, the official said. Meanwhile, Odisha .




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After death, special trains took them to their home districts

They had started their journey on foot from Maharashtra hoping to reach Madhya Pradesh, but it was their bodies that reached their home districts of Shahdol and Umaria by special trains on Saturday afternoon. The bodies of sixteen migrant labourers who were mown down by a goods train in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district were brought to Jabalpur by two bogies attached to a special train. From Jabalpur, the coaches were further sent to Shahdol and Umaria, said a police officer. A bogie with five bodies reached Umaria around 3 pm, where district officials received them and sent them to their villages in ambulances, he said. The five deceased belonged to two villages Chilhari and Maman. Another bogie with 11 bodies reached Shahdol around 4 pm. Local Member of Parliament Himadri Singh and senior officials were present at the railway station. These 11 deceased belonged to the villages of Antoli and Shahargarh of Shahdol district. In both the districts, officials accompanied ...




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What constrains our social enterprises?


Enterprises that seek to address socio-economic problems through focused business models could make significant impact with a little more support. Seema S Hegde discusses an example from Bangalore, and explains how the state and big business often fail to recognise that.




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Wanted: Trains equipped for the sick and infirm


In the concluding part of her series, Malini Shankar looks beyond the needs of the physically challenged and emphasises the criticality of appropriate facilities and infrastructure that would make train journeys convenient for those travelling for medical reasons.




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Odisha: Incoming Shramik trains on hold after HC order seeking Covid-19 test for workers




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Rlys gives 4,800 meals aboard 4 Shramik trains




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50% virus strains in India have ‘Spike mutation’ that’s scaring the world

50% virus strains in India have ‘Spike mutation’ that’s scaring the world





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Mumbai: Bihari NGO offers to pay for 50 trains

Days after Congress president Sonia Gandhi offered to pay for the travel of stranded migrant workers by trains to their homes, a Bihari NGO has offered to pay for the travel cost of 50 trains to carry Bihari migrants and students stranded in Mumbai.




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Four more trains leave for Bihar and UP




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Prisoners in City They Built: Twitter Wants #TrainsForMigrants after Karnataka Forces Workers to Stay

Opposition and Karnataka residents slammed the state government for treating migrant workers as "bonded labour" and holding them against their will.




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Trains for migrants cancelled after Odisha high court order




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SC relief for Odiya migrants, spl trains to run again today




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Railways Ferried Over 2.5 Lakh People Stranded During Lockdown in 222 Special Trains: MHA

Ministry of Home Affairs said the government's efforts have been to give maximum relaxations to people within the lockdown guidelines.




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Charged Rs 800 for a Rs 630 Ticket, Say Migrant Workers Who Took Special Trains From Surat to UP

Contrary to the claims that the migrants are not being asked to pay train fares, the labourers were not just made to bear the cost of travel but also overcharged.




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No Proposal From Bengal to Run Special Trains, Says Railways Amid TMC-Amit Shah Tug of War Over Migrants

The Indian Railways reaction came minutes after the TMC said they planned to run eight trains to ferry migrants from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Telangana over the next three days.




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302 Shramik Special Trains Run So Far, Around 3.4 Lakh Migrants Ferried: Railways

The national transporter has planned to operate 47 trains on Saturday, out of which 34 trains have already departed, officials said.




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Crushed to Death in Sleep on Rail Tracks, Migrant Workers' Bodies Taken Home by Special Trains

The labourers, working in a steel factory in Jalna, left for their home in Madhya Pradesh on foot. Exhausted, they slept on the tracks near Karmad, not knowing that traffic of goods trains had not ceased despite lockdown.




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P Chidambaram Suggests Running Sanitised Trains to Help Move Stranded Migrant Workers, Students

Indian government decided to allow migrant workers, tourists, students stranded in different parts of the country to move to their respective destinations.




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Railway SOP for Shramik Special Trains Asking States to Collect Fare for Services Draws Flak

In the SOP, the railways said the responsibility for food, security, health scanning, providing tickets to the stranded will be with the state from which the train is originating.




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Railways Subsidising 85% Fare for Special Trains: BJP Hits Out at Congress' Criticism

The ruling party also accused the Congress of promoting indiscriminate movement of people which would lead to "faster spread" of coronavirus infection.




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'Bonded Labour': Opposition Slams Karnataka Govt's Move to Cancel Trains for Migrants, Workers Unhappy

The Congress said the decision to go back or stay in the state should be with the labourers and not the government, with the former being free to choose health or work.




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Don't Play 'Petty Politics' over Shramik Special Trains: Railway Union to Sonia Gandhi

In a letter to Gandhi, the Railways' largest union of workers said travelling during the coronavirus pandemic is dangerous but railway staffers are making it possible through their hard work.




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Bengal Says 8 Trains to Bring Back Migrant Workers Scheduled as Amit Shah Writes to Mamata on 'Injustice'

Union home minister Amit Shah said not allowing trains to reach West Bengal is 'injustice' to the migrant workers from the state.




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'Prove Allegations or Apologise': TMC on Amit Shah's Letter to Mamata over Migrants' Trains

Union Home Minister Shah, in a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said the West Bengal government is not allowing trains with migrant workers to reach the state that may further create hardship for the labourers.