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Hundreds Homeless As Massive Fire Burns Down 80 Delhi Shanties
On the night on March 11, a ferocious fire tore through nearly four acres of the bustling Machhli Mandi slum cluster in Matiala village near Delhi's Uttam Nagar, reducing homes to smouldering ash and charred ruins within hours.
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5 of Family, Including 2 Children, Electrocuted In Maharashtra
In a heart-wrenching incident, five members of a family, including two children, lost their lives due to electrocution in Erandol taluka of Maharashtra's Jalgaon district on Wednesday, officials said.
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Social Media Post About Migrant Vendor's Success Takes The Internet By Storm
The post has gotten a lot of attention, and several people are liking and sharing the incredible story of a successful migrant worker.
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World's Largest Food Scheme, Meant To Help Migrants, Goes Online
The coronavirus outbreak is accelerating a push to digitize India's food-rationing system, allowing citizens to receive entitlements anywhere in the country -- boosting labor mobility and the country's economic recovery.
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Bengali Man Who Sold His Goats For Tickets Will Finally Fly Home
IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.
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Migrants Break Barricades, Rush In After UP's "No Entry" Order: Watch
Thousands of people, arms laden with small children and baggage, running pell-mell on a highway as cars zip past -- this was what Mathura witnessed last evening after the Uttar Pradesh government stopped entry of migrants following multiple deaths on the highway. Many labourers, who were making their way back into the state had died -- some from ex...
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Migrant Family, Walking Home At Night, Nearly Crosses Paths With Leopard
A migrant family, holding torches in hand, was seen walking in the dead of the night to make it back to their village in Uttarakhand. The family nearly crossed path with a leopard during their long journey home.
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IIT Gandhinagar, CPWD Collaborate For Welfare Of Migrant Labourers On Campus
IIT Gandhinagar has joined hands with Central Public Works Department (CPWD) to launch a series of welfare measures for the benefit of migrant laborers working in the construction projects at the Institute.
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What It Looks Like When India's 1.3 Billion People Stay Home
On March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the world's largest lockdown, effectively commanding one out of every six people on earth to stay home in an effort to stem the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The humongous state-run railways recorded the first suspension of services in its 167-year history, and millions of migrant day laborer...
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Orange Is The New Blue: Foreign Media On Colour-Coded Passports
In India, the rich and poor inhabit vastly different worlds. Now, many fear, new government rules will deepen that divide with different-colored passports.
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Hundreds Homeless As Massive Fire Burns Down 80 Delhi Shanties
On the night on March 11, a ferocious fire tore through nearly four acres of the bustling Machhli Mandi slum cluster in Matiala village near Delhi's Uttam Nagar, reducing homes to smouldering ash and charred ruins within hours.
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5 of Family, Including 2 Children, Electrocuted In Maharashtra
In a heart-wrenching incident, five members of a family, including two children, lost their lives due to electrocution in Erandol taluka of Maharashtra's Jalgaon district on Wednesday, officials said.
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Social Media Post About Migrant Vendor's Success Takes The Internet By Storm
The post has gotten a lot of attention, and several people are liking and sharing the incredible story of a successful migrant worker.
-
World's Largest Food Scheme, Meant To Help Migrants, Goes Online
The coronavirus outbreak is accelerating a push to digitize India's food-rationing system, allowing citizens to receive entitlements anywhere in the country -- boosting labor mobility and the country's economic recovery.
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Bengali Man Who Sold His Goats For Tickets Will Finally Fly Home
IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.
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Migrants Break Barricades, Rush In After UP's "No Entry" Order: Watch
Thousands of people, arms laden with small children and baggage, running pell-mell on a highway as cars zip past -- this was what Mathura witnessed last evening after the Uttar Pradesh government stopped entry of migrants following multiple deaths on the highway. Many labourers, who were making their way back into the state had died -- some from ex...
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Migrant Family, Walking Home At Night, Nearly Crosses Paths With Leopard
A migrant family, holding torches in hand, was seen walking in the dead of the night to make it back to their village in Uttarakhand. The family nearly crossed path with a leopard during their long journey home.
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IIT Gandhinagar, CPWD Collaborate For Welfare Of Migrant Labourers On Campus
IIT Gandhinagar has joined hands with Central Public Works Department (CPWD) to launch a series of welfare measures for the benefit of migrant laborers working in the construction projects at the Institute.
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What It Looks Like When India's 1.3 Billion People Stay Home
On March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the world's largest lockdown, effectively commanding one out of every six people on earth to stay home in an effort to stem the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The humongous state-run railways recorded the first suspension of services in its 167-year history, and millions of migrant day laborer...
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Orange Is The New Blue: Foreign Media On Colour-Coded Passports
In India, the rich and poor inhabit vastly different worlds. Now, many fear, new government rules will deepen that divide with different-colored passports.
