Kerala Migrants Train

A full-scale political battle is in progress over the special trains for migrants, with two opposition-ruled states -- Bengal and Kerala -- accusing the Centre of spreading coronavirus by sending trains without any notification. A third, Maharashtra, from where a chunk of outgoing traffic originates, has been engaged in a face-off with the Centre o...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today picked up Kerala's refrain, accusing the Railway Ministry of sending the special trains for migrants without any prior notice and disrupting the state's methods to contain the coronavirus. Accusing the railways of "evacuating Maharashtra and spreading corona to Bengal" and playing politics with both state...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi after trains carrying migrants arrived in the state without any prior information.

Some 7,000 migrant workers will be homebound from Kerala as they begin their journey to states like Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand, among others. In Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, the police and district administration have ensured that migrants maintained social distance in buses that were bringing them to the railway station, and even while waiting in...

Six "shramik (worker) special" trains, carrying migrants, students and others stranded by the coronavirus lockdown, departed from Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan on Friday. The trains, bound for Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were organised on request from the respective states, Railways said in a st...

A man from Assam suspected to have been exposed to coronavirus was tracked down in a "joint operation" by the police and Indian Railways after he jumped quarantine in Kerala. The man, a migrant worker from Assam, had left Kerala without telling anyone, on Monday. He was found around midnight on a train to Assam, at New Bongaigaon Station, and haule...

A full-scale political battle is in progress over the special trains for migrants, with two opposition-ruled states -- Bengal and Kerala -- accusing the Centre of spreading coronavirus by sending trains without any notification. A third, Maharashtra, from where a chunk of outgoing traffic originates, has been engaged in a face-off with the Centre o...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today picked up Kerala's refrain, accusing the Railway Ministry of sending the special trains for migrants without any prior notice and disrupting the state's methods to contain the coronavirus. Accusing the railways of "evacuating Maharashtra and spreading corona to Bengal" and playing politics with both state...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi after trains carrying migrants arrived in the state without any prior information.

Some 7,000 migrant workers will be homebound from Kerala as they begin their journey to states like Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand, among others. In Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, the police and district administration have ensured that migrants maintained social distance in buses that were bringing them to the railway station, and even while waiting in...

Six "shramik (worker) special" trains, carrying migrants, students and others stranded by the coronavirus lockdown, departed from Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan on Friday. The trains, bound for Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were organised on request from the respective states, Railways said in a st...

A man from Assam suspected to have been exposed to coronavirus was tracked down in a "joint operation" by the police and Indian Railways after he jumped quarantine in Kerala. The man, a migrant worker from Assam, had left Kerala without telling anyone, on Monday. He was found around midnight on a train to Assam, at New Bongaigaon Station, and haule...