Nearly 14 migrant workers from different districts of Jharkhand facing difficulties allegedly due to unpaid wages in Dubai have appealed to the state government for facilitating their safe return, an official said on Monday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the probe into the violence in Murshidabad district's Beldanga area for two days earlier this month over the death of a migrant worker from West Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand.

A migrant worker, his wife and their two-year-old child were killed by some other migrant workers in Chennai, allegedly because he objected to them sexually harassing the woman, police said

An Associated Press investigation found that Bangladeshi workers were lured to Russia under the false promise of civilian work, only to be thrust into the chaos of combat in Ukraine. Many were threatened with violence, imprisonment or death.

TMC MP from Murshidabad Yusuf Pathan visited the residence of a migrant labourer from Beldanga whose unnatural death in Jharkhand earlier this week triggyered mob violence in the West Bengal town and pledged his support to the victim's family.

Beldanga in Bengal's Murshidabad became the epicentre of a major standoff on Friday, as heavy protests and roadblocks followed the alleged killing of a migrant worker in Jharkhand.

Five Jharkhand labourers allegedly abducted in the West African country of Niger returned on Friday to India after eight months in captivity, an official said.

Three accused were sent to a juvenile home in Chengalpattu, while the fourth one was released on bail, with the court citing his studies.

A 30-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly killed in Odisha's Sambalpur district following an altercation over a bidi, police said on Thursday.

Days after a migrant worker from Chhattisgarh was beaten to death in Kerala, state minister MB Rajesh said the man was a victim of the "politics of hate" propagated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) across the country.

What began as a search for employment ended in an unthinkable tragedy for a young migrant worker from Chhattisgarh. Thirty-one-year-old Ramnarayan Baghel, 31, a resident of Sakti district, travelled to Kerala in search of work.

A comment by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on illegal infiltration from Bangladesh and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's role has left Trinamool seething.

An ambulance carrying an injured migrant worker in Kerala's Idukki district had a close call after a lone elephant charged at the vehicle.

Sobs could be heard across Hong Kong's Victoria Park at the weekend as hundreds of migrant workers mourned victims of Hong Kong's worst fire in more than a century and prayed for missing friends.

In its biggest immigration shake-up in nearly half a century, the United Kingdom is planning to make some legal migrants wait up to 20 years before letting them apply to settle in Britain permanently.

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday claimed that migrant workers and the youth are the real "X factor" of the ongoing assembly elections in Bihar, and not the women.

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor whose Jan Suraaj made his electoral debut Thursday, in the Bihar election's first phase will have 'no impact' on its outcome, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav told NDTV.

The Jharkhand labour department has contacted the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia to facilitate the return of the body of a 26-year-old youth from Dumri block in Giridih, who was killed in a shootout in Jeddah on October 16, officials said on Friday.

Forty-eight migrant workers from Jharkhand, who are stranded in the African country of Tunisia, have appealed to the Indian government to facilitate their return to India.

The Haryana unit of the BJP has launched a large-scale mobilisation drive to send lakhs of Bihari migrant workers back to their home state to cast their votes in the upcoming assembly elections.

With the two-phase Bihar Assembly elections scheduled on November 6 and 11, the BJP has launched a door-to-door campaign aimed at persuading migrant workers who return home for the Chhath Puja to remain in the state long enough to cast their votes.

Over 500 migrant workers, mostly from India, were treated to an afternoon of festivities, joined by local volunteers, to celebrate Diwali at the Flower Field Hall of Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, Marina Bay skyline and waterfront.

Travelling over 2,000 km from Tamil Nadu to exercise their franchise during the two-phase elections in early November remains a distant dream for many migrant workers from Bihar, as their insecure jobs make it nearly impossible to take time off.

Nine migrant workers from Assam were killed when an under-construction coal handling enclosure collapsed at the Ennore supercritical power station on the outskirts of Chennai.