Inter-state migrant workers are a group whose hardships have largely remained unaddressed in India. Recent events have starkly exposed their suffering, fragmentation, exclusion, and heightened ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of workers across India went on a nationwide strike on Wednesday in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to privatize state-run companies and ...
Indian highways are lined with migrant laborers trying to walk hundreds of miles home to their villages. Left without work or transport, they're... Migrant Workers In India Desperate After National ...
A mass departure of migrant workers from Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat has left key sectors such as textiles, hospitality, and small manufacturing reeling. The exodus, triggered by ...
Shimla: Nepalese workers, considered the backbone of development activities in Himachal Pradesh, say they are deeply concerned about the current turmoil in their homeland and are pinning hopes on the ...
When cyclones batter Odisha, floods swamp Kerala or heatwaves sear the Gangetic plain, India’s internal migrants are often the first to suffer and the last to receive help. Their lives, already ...
Kochi: Days after a migrant labourer died of a heroin overdose in Perumbavoor, Ernakulam rural police have reserved a movie theatre in the town to scr.