January 07, 2021 1:50 pm
With the figures indicating that the job crisis triggered by Covid-19 continues, Kerala economy may be facing long-term impact, with remittances from abroad, mainly West Asia, its lifeline.
January 02, 2021 7:59 am
“Without them how difficult it is to run industries. People folded their hands and said, ‘Come Back Come Back’. What Corona did was that for those who did not accept the importance of our migrant labourers, it compelled them to do so,” the Prime Minister said.
December 25, 2020 8:22 pm
As the year 2020 draws to a close, we take a look at the migrant exodus triggered by the sudden nationwide lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
October 24, 2020 6:26 pm
If Durga Puja is about homecoming then the celebrations have to wait.. If the festival is about the hope for resurrected morality, then for now the festive spirit has run dry. For now humanity is endangered.
October 17, 2020 7:51 pm
The painting is similar to the migrant worker mother's idol at Barisha Club's pandal, who is also seen holding a child, signifying Lord Kartika.
October 11, 2020 1:13 am
Dated October 9, the letter by the society’s president, Mahendra Ramolia, stated, "Keeping (in mind) the bitter experience faced by migrant labourers during the Covid-19 pandemic, please permit at the earliest to allow building homes for them in five to 10 percent of the land allotted to each allottee.”
October 10, 2020 12:28 pm
On October 11, Pune-based Swatantra Theatre will mark World Mental Health Day by releasing a documentary titled, Suno Suno, on the process used to enable migrant communities living in slums to talk about their emotional health.
October 07, 2020 10:19 am
As per the 1991 Census, 21.1 per cent of the city’s residents were born outside the state. The number increased to 26.4 per cent, as per Census 2001. The migration rate grew sluggishly at 27.66 per cent, as per the 2011 Census D1 appendix data that was released in July this year.
September 19, 2020 10:49 pm
The statement said that Himachal Pradesh, in the context of migration, is different from neighbouring Uttarakhand as the rate of in-migration is slightly higher in the state as compared to out-migration.
September 19, 2020 1:52 pm
In a written answer to a question posed by TMC MP Derek O'Brien on Friday, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal provided the statistics to the upper house of parliament.
April 14, 2020 10:34 pm
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the extension of the nationwide lockdown till May 3, a large number of migrant labourers came out on road in Mumbai’s Bandra demanding transportation arrangements to go to their native places.