migrant labourers

Bhubaneswar: Labour Minister Susanta Singh has urged migrant  labourers not to leave Odisha during the current COVID-19 situation. There are many work in Odisha, the minister said, adding…

New Delhi: Bollywood actor and the messiah of migrant labourers Sonu Sood on Sunday launched a new initiative to help people rendered jobless during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the…

Bhubaneswar: ‘Ravaiyaa’, a crowdfunded short film has won the ‘Best Thought-Provoking Concept’ award at another International Film Festival- ‘Cinema of the World, Mumbai' held virtually on…

Sambalpur: A study on migrant labourers has found that around 71 per cent of those who have returned to Odisha from different parts of the country due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown are…

Bhubaneswar: With the majority of migrant labourers having returned home, it’s time for the Odisha government to map their skills and redraw livelihood strategies for them. That was the…

Bhubaneswar: Congress Legislature party leader Narasingha Mishra has urged Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to convene the Assembly session by third week of August to discuss the…

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has almost completed the exercise of bringing home and sending back migrant labourers, with the demand for ECoR-bound Shramik Special trains from…

Balangir: Policemen in Balangir’s Kantabanji town did a good deed on Saturday when they arranged a bus for 48 migrant labourers to travel to their native places in Jharkhand. A group of…

Mumbai: Actor Sonu Sood is winning hearts across the country for arranging buses for migrant workers to ferry them home during the lockdown. While the on-screen villain is being lauded…

Bhubaneswar: The prolonged nationwide lockdown, imposed by the government to check the spread of Covid-19, has hit migrant labourers of Odisha badly. Not only have they been rendered…