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More than 100 Europe-bound migrants feared dead in shipwreck off Libyan coast
AP |
PUBLISHED ON APR 23, 2021 02:17 PM IST
In the years since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, war-torn Libya has emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.
Europe-bound North African migrants found traveling among glass, toxic ash
AP | , Madrid
PUBLISHED ON FEB 22, 2021 04:41 PM IST
- Among the 35 people found only on Friday trying to travel to Europe from the Spanish port of Melilla, an enclave in North Africa, four hid among bottles and other glass partially broken in pieces and with sharp edges that were destined for recycling
Covid-19: Seven months after fleeing lockdown, migrant worker says ‘don’t have courage to go back to city’
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | By Debabrata Mohanty
UPDATED ON DEC 28, 2020 07:21 AM IST
Ajurm lifted bricks and carried mixture of cement and sand for Rs 350-400 a day in a construction site in KK Nagar area of Chennai. Her mason husband earned Rs 700 and son another Rs 400 as a painter.
BMC gets proactive to check spread of Covid-19 as migrants return to Mumbai
HIndistan Times, Mumbai | By Sagar Pillai
UPDATED ON NOV 25, 2020 06:42 PM IST
The BMC has initiated steps to prevent the spread of Covid-19 following the return of migrants to Mumbai.
Uttarakhand estimates two-thirds of migrants have returned to places of work
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | By Suparna Roy
PUBLISHED ON OCT 26, 2020 07:36 AM IST
Migrants are choosing to go back to their jobs as there was a sense of security, steady income and a lifestyle they have gotten used to, said a top official of the Migration Commission.
Unused rural funds hint migrants may be back at work in cities
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 28, 2020 03:38 AM IST
As millions of migrant workers started returning home after the lockdown was enforced on March 25 amid a jobs crunch in the big cities, the government devised the Rozgar Abhiyan to provide jobs to skilled and unskilled workers.
Covid-19: Fake news led to migrants’ exodus, says home ministry
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON SEP 16, 2020 02:14 AM IST
Migrant workers were also concerned about the availability of basic necessities like food, drinking water, access to health services and shelter during the lockdown enforced on March 25, it said.
Migrants in UP pack their bags as former employers lay out red carpet for their return
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By Rajesh Kumar Singh | Edited by Abhinav Sahay
UPDATED ON SEP 12, 2020 10:23 AM IST
Several migrants who had returned home are now being offered flight tickets and better wages to return.
East UP migrants to get support for starting fisheries business
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON SEP 09, 2020 11:34 AM IST
NBFGR experts will provide training to these migrants to farm a variety of freshwater fish and crustaceans like prawns and crabs.
Railways to create over 1.1mn man-days work for migrants in 6 states
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Anisha Dutta
UPDATED ON AUG 03, 2020 03:53 AM IST
The plan to accelerate the construction of infrastructure is targeted at Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Migrant workers slowly returning to cities; locals being trained to fill immediate gap
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Prashasti Singh
UPDATED ON JUL 19, 2020 02:00 PM IST
According to recent data by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, thousands of workers have been brought back by engineering firms to complete the metro projects, including Dahisar East-Andheri East metro 7 line.
Bihar migrant workers set up cricket bat manufacturing unit
Hindustan Times, Bettiah | By Sandeep Bhaskar
UPDATED ON JUL 18, 2020 10:29 PM IST
The workers are hoping to ply their bat-making skills back home in Bihar’s West Champaran district and make a living for themselves.
SC pulls up Maharashtra govt for claiming everything fine on migrant workers’ issue
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Prashasti Singh
PUBLISHED ON JUL 09, 2020 03:20 PM IST
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, S K Kaul and M R Shah asked the state to file a fresh affidavit listing the steps taken to mitigate the problems of migrant workers wanting to return to their native places amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Migrants who stayed back helping shape Delhi’s biggest Covid-19 facility
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Shiv Sunny, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUL 01, 2020 07:12 AM IST
Migrants see the work at the Covid-19 facility as an opportunity to earn after a prolonged period of unemployment as well as a chance to contribute to the country during a pandemic.
News updates from Hindustan Times: After a day of pause, fuel prices witness another hike and all the latest news
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 29, 2020 09:04 AM IST
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Migrants are returning, trains from UP, Bihar, WB fully booked: Railways
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Anisha Dutta
UPDATED ON JUN 27, 2020 08:43 AM IST
At present, railways is running 15 pairs of premium Rajdhani trains connecting Delhi with different parts of the country, which began on May 12, and 100 pairs of long-distance trains, which began on June 1.
Migrants returning from Bihar, UP shows economic activity on rise: Railways
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Anisha Dutta| Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi
UPDATED ON JUN 26, 2020 10:10 PM IST
Most special trains from states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal to cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore are running on 100% occupancy over the next four days, the data showed.
Radhika Apte: I don’t like the term ‘new normal’
Hindustan Times | By Rishabh Suri, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 26, 2020 07:35 PM IST
Actor Radhika Apte, who is in London currently, says that the situation there is getting better amidst the Covid-19 crisis, and also that once we find a vaccine for it, we will go back to being normal.
Adityanath directs officials to provide registration facility to migrant workers through mobile apps
Lucknow | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Prashasti Singh
PUBLISHED ON JUN 25, 2020 12:34 PM IST
Adityanath directed that the integrated mechanism should be developed for employment and self-employment of youth, labourers and workers, a statement said.
New Covid-19 hotspots are emerging in rural villages across India
By Bloomberg | Posted by Prashasti Singh
UPDATED ON JUN 22, 2020 10:07 AM IST
Initially isolated from the epidemic that has swamped the capital New Delhi and financial center Mumbai, rural areas were exposed when millions of migrant workers who lost their jobs in the cities when the government implemented a strict nationwide lockdown on March 25 went home.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar lauds PM’s employment scheme for migrant workers
Patna, Bihar | By Press Trust of India | Posted by: Shivani Kumar
UPDATED ON JUN 21, 2020 12:16 PM IST
PM Modi launched the ‘Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyaan’ with an outlay of Rs 50,000 crore for migrant workers who returned to their home states during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
Migrants toil to revive ‘dead’ Gharar in village in UP’s Banda district
Hindustan Times, Kanpur | By Haidar Naqvi
PUBLISHED ON JUN 18, 2020 04:07 PM IST
The workers claim they started the cleaning work on their own to save their village from flooding during the monsoon.
Yogi Adityanath to head UP commission to safeguard workers jobs, rights
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Abhinav Sahay
UPDATED ON JUN 16, 2020 04:24 PM IST
The workers commission aims to provide sustainable employment to workers including the migrant workforce that returned to the state in the last 2 months.
News updates from Hindustan Times: Covid-19 cases decline in Bihar, UP, Jharkhand and MP amid slowdown in migrants’ return and all the latest news
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 16, 2020 01:01 PM IST
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Uttarakhand HC seeks action plan from state govt, railway min for return of those stranded in Mumbai
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | By Neeraj Santoshi
UPDATED ON JUN 16, 2020 12:42 PM IST
The court, which will hear the case next on Thursday, gave the direction in response to an intervention application in a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Pritam Singh, seeking to know about the efforts being made to repatriate the stranded people from Mumbai.
As migrants’ return slows down, Covid-19 cases decline in Bihar, UP, Jharkhand and MP
Hindustan Times, Ranchi/Lucknow/Patna | By Bedanti Saran/Rajesh Kumar Singh/Ruchir Ranjan
UPDATED ON JUN 16, 2020 12:04 PM IST
As compared to about 12% increase in cases in Bihar in the first week of June, there was 10.81% rise in the second week.
70k rural roads, 5 million houses among job avenues for migrants
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Saubhadra Chatterji
UPDATED ON JUN 11, 2020 02:52 AM IST
The availability of additional workforce, i.e migrants returning to their villages, would also help the government meet its annual target of building roads and PMAY (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana) houses in time and avoid the rush to only grab MGNREGS jobs.
NLU arranges train to ferry over 1,600 migrants home
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 11, 2020 04:46 AM IST
An application to allow an urgent the special train to transport 1,650 migrant workers amid coronavirus-triggered lockdown was made last week before the district magistrates of Ahmedabad and Surat. The request was sanctioned on June 9.
Arnab Goswami summoned by Mumbai Police, to appear before Pydhonie police station at 11am on Wednesday
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | By Manish K Pathak
UPDATED ON JUN 10, 2020 10:51 AM IST
In FIR, complainant Irfan Abubakar Shaikh has alleged that Arnab Goswami tried to create hatred against the Muslim community though his show on April 29.
Supreme Court directs states, union territories to facilitate return of migrant workers within 15 days
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Posted by: Amit Chaturvedi
UPDATED ON JUN 09, 2020 11:28 AM IST
The government has also been asked to provide information to migrant workers about employment opportunities and facilitate those who wish to return to their place of original employment.