PM Modi to flag off Ayodhya-Mumbai Amrit Bharat Express trainIndian Railway launches a new weekly train connecting Ayodhya to Mumbai. This service will improve travel between Uttar Pradesh and Maharas...
28 Apr, 2026, 06.30 PM IST
Drop cases against migrant workers: SC to states, centreThe railways will provide Shramik trains within 24 hours of any state seeking their services, the bench said. These will be in addition to ...
10 Jun, 2020, 07.20 AM IST
Make jobs available to migrant workers near their homes: Mayawati to CentreReferring to the Supreme Court's directions that no fare for travel either by train or bus be charged from migrant workers stranded across ...
29 May, 2020, 01.23 PM IST
3,736 Shramik Special trains ferried over 48 lakh migrants since May 1The railways has distributed more than 85 lakh free meals and about 1.25 crore free water bottles to migrant workers travelling in these tr...
28 May, 2020, 08.53 PM IST
Refrain from running regular trains for a month: States to CentreState governments, including Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal have told the Centre that resumption of passenger rail ...
28 May, 2020, 08.22 AM IST
Supreme Court intervenes, takes note of migrants' plightTaking suo motu cognisance of the plight of migrants, who were left stranded when the Centre imposed the nationwide lockdown from March 25,...
27 May, 2020, 12.03 AM IST
Shramik Special trains ferried around 42 lakh migrants since May 1The top five states where maximum trains terminated are Uttar Pradesh (1,428), Bihar (1,178), Jharkhand (164), Odisha (128) and Madhya Prad...
26 May, 2020, 12.47 PM IST
UP accident underlines states receiving migrants should allow limited air, road, rail travel: Hardeep Singh PuriAt least 24 migrant workers were killed and 36 injured when a trailer rammed into a stationary truck, both carrying passengers, on a highwa...
16 May, 2020, 05.31 PM IST
Govt should allow private vehicles to ferry migrants: Sanjay RautThe labourers, rendered jobless due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, had set off for their homes on foot along the rail tracks apparen...
10 May, 2020, 11.19 AM IST
Policy of providing buses, trains to transport migrant workers poorly implemented: P ChidambaramThe policy of providing buses and trains to transport migrant workers was poorly designed, coordinated and implemented, senior Congress lea...
08 May, 2020, 04.00 PM IST
Pained beyond words at death of migrants: JP NaddaCondoling the death of migrant workers after being run over by a goods train in Aurangabad, BJP president JP Nadda said on Friday that he w...
08 May, 2020, 12.04 PM IST
Maharashtra seeks clarity from railways on train fares for migrantsThe BJP on Monday said the Railways has subsidised 85 per cent of ticket fare for special trains being run to transport migrant workers and...
06 May, 2020, 12.37 PM IST
Bihar CM Nitish declares relief for stranded students, workersBihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said his government had already planned it but didn’t announce it earlier. Since the opposition tried to ...
04 May, 2020, 11.38 PM IST
Congress offers to bear migrants’ railway faresCongress has offered to bear the railway fares of the home-bound migrant workers at a time when the Centre has been facing widespread criti...
04 May, 2020, 11.14 PM IST
Railways paying 85%, state govt 15% fare for migrant workers: BJP"Rahul Gandhi ji, I have attached guidelines of MHA which clearly states that 'No tickets to be sold at any station'. Railways has subsidis...
04 May, 2020, 05.18 PM IST
Migrant rail fare row: Sources say most states paying for travel of migrantsA controversy erupted on Monday after several opposition parties demanded that migrant workers should not be charged for the train tickets....
04 May, 2020, 03.25 PM IST
Hungarian bus fleet delivers migrants to Austria welcomeHungary relented in its demand for the travelers to report to government-run asylum centers when challenged by defiant migrants largely fro...
05 Sep, 2015, 12.52 PM IST