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Hopeful Of Boarding Train Home, Migrants Gather Outside Mumbai Station

India News | Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Tuesday May 26, 2020

Huge crowds of migrant labourers, hopeful of catching a train home, gathered at Mumbai's CST terminal this afternoon. Till late in the evening, they were still there. Such huge crowds outside Mumbai's railway stations have become a regular occurrence.

At Railway Station In Madhya Pradesh, Migrants Loot Food Cart: Watch

India News | Reported by Anurag Dwary, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday May 25, 2020

A video of migrants looting a food cart at a railway station is doing the rounds in Madhya Pradesh, highlighting once again the plight of homebound migrant labourers, travelling for days without proper food and water. The video is one of many that surfaced over the last weeks, showing the hunger and desperation of the migrants, whose income dried u...

New Rules For Domestic, International Travel: What You Need To Know

India News | Edited by Arun Nair | Sunday May 24, 2020

New rules for domestic travel during the lockdown were released by the government today, including advising passengers to download the Aarogya Setu application on their mobile devices and asking states to ensure thermal screening at departure point of airports, railway stations and bus terminals. The guidelines were shared by Civil Aviation Ministe...

Migrants Looting Food, Water At Delhi Station Shows Raw Desperation

Delhi News | Reported by Parimal Kumar, Edited by Stela Dey | Sunday May 24, 2020

The coronavirus crisis that has left thousands unemployed, homeless and hungry is painting a raw picture of what desperation can look like when hunger is the drive. A push-cart with cartons of food and water is stopped and looted by scores of migrant workers who then start fleeing, videos from the Old Delhi railway station show. This incident happe...

Video: Migrants Grab Food, Water Packets Tossed On Floor At Train Station

India News | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Friday May 22, 2020

Distressing visuals have emerged from Bihar's Samastipur railway station, showing dozens of men shoving each other out of the way to grab handfuls of food and water packets left on the platform floor

Train Ticket Reservation Counters To Open At Select Railway Stations From Today

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday May 22, 2020

The Indian Railways will open its reservation counters at select stations for booking of only reserved tickets from tomorrow, the Railway Board said in an order today.

Migrants Ransack Food Dispensing Machine At Railway Station In Madhya Pradesh, Say Officials

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday May 16, 2020

Some migrant workers travelling in a special train allegedly ransacked a food vending machine at a railway station in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur on Friday.

Railways Sends Back 19 Passengers To Delhi As They Protest Quarantine In Bengaluru

India News | ANI | Friday May 15, 2020

Nineteen passengers who had arrived at the Bengaluru railway station on Thursday from New Delhi on a passenger train were sent back to the national capital after they created a ruckus protesting institutional quarantine.

Please Don't Come To Goa "To Enjoy", Says Chief Minister Pramod Sawant

Goa News | Press Trust of India | Saturday May 16, 2020

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has suggested that the Railways cancel the halt at Madgaon station for special trains being operated by it as the state records new cases of coronavirus after a gap of more than a month.

No Food, Dirty Toilets: Migrants On Special Train Protest At Bengal Station

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Thursday May 14, 2020

Chaos broke out at the Asansol railway station in West Bengal this morning when a shramik special train from Bangalore made a technical halt there and passengers hopped off, complaining of no food, dirty toilets and because the train was headed for north Bengal while half the 1,500 odd passengers needed to go home in south Bengal.

Coronavirus Lockdown - "Windows Of Hope": Piyush Goyal Tweets Photo Of Migrants On Special Train

India News | Edited by Shatabdi Chowdhury | Thursday May 14, 2020

"Windows of hope," read the caption of a picture tweeted today by Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal. The picture had several migrant workers, bound for Jodhpur in Rajasthan, waving their hands from the windows of a "shramik (worker)" special train, chugging off from Hubbali railway station in Karnataka.

With No Public Transport, Several Stranded Outside New Delhi Railway Station

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 13, 2020

Scores of people, who arrived in New Delhi on the first batch of trains since the partial resumption of railway services amid a lockdown, were on Wednesday left stranded on the roads outside the railway station with no transport available for onward journeys.

Sonia Gandhi Paid For Your Tickets, Congress MLA Tells Migrants On Train

India News | Reported By Mohammad Ghazali, Edited By Deepshikha Ghosh | Monday May 11, 2020

As a special train with migrants was rolling out of a station on Sunday in Congress-ruled Punjab, each passenger was handed a pamphlet. "Your ticket was paid for by Sonia Gandhi," said the flyers distributed at Bhatinda station by a Congress MLA.

List Of Trains That Will Run From Tomorrow, Stations, Timings

India News | Edited by Ridhima Shukla | Monday May 11, 2020

The railways on Sunday said it will "gradually" restart operations from Tuesday as the country eases the coronavirus lockdown. A total of 30 train journeys - 15 pairs of return trips - will run from New Delhi railway station to other cities including Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.

Minor Gas Leak In LPG Container Of Goods Train At Bhopal: Rail Official

Bhopal News | Press Trust of India | Saturday May 9, 2020

Gas leak was detected on a goods train transporting LPG on Saturday at Bhopal railway station in Madhya Pradesh, a Railways official said.