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.

Congress's Shashi Tharoor, irked by Air India's plan to curtail flights to and from Kerala, said it would hamper the state's trade and tourism and invariably lead to passengers switching to other airlines.

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Kolkata Police on Tuesday intercepted a military truck for alleged reckless driving, a day after the army dismantled a stage erected by the ruling Trinamool Congress to protest alleged atrocities on Bengali-speaking migrant workers in BJP-ruled state

The argument broke out when the migrant, Baidyanath Pandit, was learning how to drive a car and accidentally hit the vehicle of his neighbour.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a scheme for Bengali migrant workers who have been forced to return from other states. The "Shramasree project" will provide them with job cards through a web portal.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to order an interim stay on the alleged detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers over suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a massive protest rally in Jhargram, condemning the alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrants outside the state.

Six migrant workers from Odisha were killed in a tragic accident at a granite quarry in Andhra Pradesh's Bapatla district on Sunday morning.