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Registered or not, wait goes on and on for migrant workers
21 May 2020 11:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: With no end in sight for the ordeal faced by stranded migrant workers in Delhi, tens of thousands of workers who had successfully...
1,100 km journey: Exhausted and starved, Manesar Maruti workers finally reach Bihar
21 May 2020 1:01 AM ISTNew delhi: When Guddu, Roshan, Laltu and Shivam left IMT Manesar 12 days ago with two other friends, they thought all they had to do was somehow...
Migrants kept waiting and waiting...
19 May 2020 11:57 PM ISTnew delhi: Even after 20 days of Shramik Special Train beginning, the registration process is riddled with a host of problems that authorities...
Over 1,000 migrant workers living under Ghazipur flyover
19 May 2020 12:44 AM ISTNew Delhi: It is 2 pm on Monday afternoon. There are around six to seven Delhi government buses stationed on the Delhi-side of the Ghazipur border...
Even at full capacity, it will take 5 plus mnths to ferry migrants home
18 May 2020 12:12 AM ISTNew Delhi: Even if the Ministry of Railways operates all Shramik Special Trains at 100 per cent capacity, it is expected to take more than four months...
'All we have been left to do is walk and wait'
18 May 2020 12:10 AM ISTA Northern Railway official said the Railway Board had issued directives to prohibit journalists from reporting on migrant workers from inside the rly...
How dare we
16 May 2020 11:27 PM ISTAfter having starved themselves to death; after putting their lives at risk to reach home; after blistering their feet to see their families and after...
Pooled sampling guidelines for returning migrant workers contradict ICMR directions
16 May 2020 12:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare guidelines issued on Thursday for the pooled sampling of returning migrant workers seems to be in...
Daily tests dip by over 21,000 as test kit availability becomes concern
12 May 2020 12:39 AM ISTNew Delhi: The 24-hour testing numbers for COVID-19 in India saw a dramatic fall when the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday morning...
Delhi-based rice exporters flee after alleged bank fraud of Rs 414 crore, complaint filed after 4 years
10 May 2020 12:48 AM ISTNew Delhi: Much like many other cases of bank fraud in the last few years, the directors of a Delhi-based firm are now learnt to have purportedly fled...
'An opaque test kit procurement process riddled with discrepancies'
9 May 2020 12:32 AM ISTNew Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) tenders and documents, recently reviewed by Millennium Post have now shown that Humasis, a South...
Of 733 districts that saw COVID-19 cases, govt testing labs only in 114
2 May 2020 12:35 AM ISTNew Delhi: Of the 733 districts in India that have recorded COVID-19 cases, research by the Indian Council of Medical Research showed that only 114 of...