With a surge in coronavirus cases in Delhi and its neighbouring cities, migrant workers and daily wagers fear another round of lockdown could push them into a severe financial crisis from which they might never recover.

Kerala Police have arrested 50 people after Christmas Eve celebrations at a migrant labourer's camp in Ernakulam turned violent, leading to an attack on police personnel.

Jharkhand has launched an initiative for the systemic registration of migrant workers in the source as well as destination districts.

A POCSO court in Surat on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old migrant worker for raping and murdering a two-and-a-half-year-old girl last month here in Gujarat, terming it as the "rarest of rare" case.

Sonu Sood hit the headlines last year with his noble act of kindness. He helped many migrant workers move to his home when the outbreak of Covid-19 was declared as a pandemic.

Four terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba who were involved in the recent killings of three migrant workers have been shot dead in back-to-back encounters in Shopian and Kulgam districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday condemned the targeted killing of Bihari migrant workers in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the incidents have created an "environment of fear".

On a rainy morning in Srinagar, three children of Vikas Choudhary, a labourer from Bihar, are trembling in the cold as they wait for a taxi to leave Kashmir - upending a life of 18 years.

The killing of four Bihari migrant workers in J&K this month has created some panic among others from the state working in the Kashmir Valley, Labour Minister Jeevesh Mishra told NDTV on Monday.

The alleged rape of a minor girl by a migrant labourer from West Bengal and the demand by the girl's parents and local people urging the police to hand over the accused following his arrest led to tense moments at a police station.

An express train mowed down three migrant labourers from Bihar in Odisha's Ganjam district while they were walking on the tracks to reach a railway station to return home, a GRP official said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today declared that migrants will not be required to submit ration cards or address proof to get cooking gas where they are working. A self-declaration as a "proof of address'' will suffice, he said

Government is collecting data through the Periodic Labour Force Survey to find out actual number of labourers who lost jobs due to the pandemic.

A Jharkhand village - Haradag Khurd in Garhwa district- has been put on high alert post detection of as many as 21 COVID-19 positive villagers in a short span of two days after return of migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh, officials said Friday.

A court in Odisha on Monday convicted a man and sentenced him to 10 years in jail after convicting him for chopping off the hands of two migrant workers in Kalahandi district eight years ago.

After the Supreme Court rapped the Centre for failing to create a database on unorganised workers, the Congress on Tuesday hit out at the government demanding immediate sacking of the labour minister and an apology from the prime minister.

"One Nation, One Ration" scheme for migrant workers must be implemented by all states by July, the Supreme Court said today.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce Tuesday its verdict on a plea seeking directions to the Centre and states to ensure food security, cash transfers and other welfare measures for migrant workers hit hard again during the second covid wave

Tens of thousands of migrant workers fled Bangladesh's capital Sunday on the eve of a tightened lockdown that will curtail most economic activity and confine people to their homes as coronavirus infections soar.

Norway's football community on Sunday voted against boycotting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar despite pressure from its grassroots over alleged human rights abuses of migrant workers in the Gulf state.

Over 8,700 people were mowed down on railway tracks in 2020 even though passenger train services were severely curtailed during the year due to the national coronavirus lockdown, with officials saying many of the victims were migrant workers.

Rescue operations were underway on Tuesday to trace at least five migrant workers from Assam and Tripura who were trapped inside a rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia district, officials said.

The Supreme Court Monday said the process of registration of migrant workers is "very slow" and it must be expedited so that benefit of various schemes can be extended to them amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some 400 passengers who arrived by a train from Kanyakumari rushed out of the railway station to avoid being tested for Covid on arrival at Jagi Road near Guwahati.