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Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

ST buses pick up 21,714 stranded migrants from highways: M’tra

​​​​​​​Even as horror stories, photos and videos, of disillusioned migrants taking to the highways and clambering on hired trucks and lorries to escape the big city’ were being circulated, between 9 and 11 May, 1,169 buses of the Maharashtra State Transport (ST)ferried 21,714 migrants, of which, 11,866 were ferried by 530 buses on Monday alone

Mumbai’s Covid-19 woes worsen

Probe ordered into hospital keeping dead bodies kept next to patients, even as blood banks are facing a shortage of supply. Also two BDD chawls have been ordered to be sealed for the next week

16 migrant workers run over by train in Aurangabad, Opposition demands answers

Say Central govt alone responsible for tragedy that was completely avoidable

Sixteen migrants killed after cargo train runs over them; railways orders probe

The migrants were exhausted after walking on their way home and slept on the railway line

Dangerous dilution of labour rights underway in UP, MP and Gujarat

CITU calls it “barbarous” and said this will enable factory and business owners “to impose conditions of slavery on the working people”

Migrants may go back home after trade union petitions against government in Karnataka HC

Maharashtra government increases work shifts for labourers from 8 hours to 12 hours per day

India needs a stimulus package to fight the COVID-19 Economic battle

A closer look at the plight of migrants and some solutions for economic recovery

Coronavirus free Amreli braces for an influx of 1.5 migrants from Gujarat’s hotspots

Keeping the district free of Covid-19 is the biggest challenge for officials now

Maha gov’t moves SC accusing Arnab Goswami of ‘browbeating’ police

Meanwhile, Goswami seeks quashing of new FIR in connection with his channel's reportage of the Bandra migrant crisis

Does the Karnataka Govt think migrant workers are bonded labourers?

Property developers’ lobby allegedly convinces state gov't to cancel special trains meant to take labourers safely home

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Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

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