16 migrant labourers were killed in three separate road accidents in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh while returning home amid the lockdown.
The first accident…
The nationwide lockdown has razed to the ground the aspirations of lakhs of labourers who had left their sparse villages to reach gleaming metropolises in…
Migrant labourers have had to bear the brunt of the deterioration of mutual coordination between the Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (UP) governments.
A Shramik Special…
Along with lockdown restrictions, Sonbhadra, eastern Uttar Pradesh’s tribal-majority district, is also bearing the brunt of the rising summer heat. With the rise in temperature,…
By Mohit M. Rao, Astha Choudhary/thethirdpole.net
Frail and bent over his walking stick, Raja Ram squatted by the bushes of the denuded forest-scape around his…
The incidence of the deaths of migrant labourers trying to reach their homes during the lockdown continues unabated. Now, a labourer who left Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi on…
The Uttar Pradesh government’s much-touted ‘Agra model of containment’ lay in tatters, after a video clip showed COVID-19 patients at a quarantine centre in the…