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A first: Shramik train with 1,050 leaves from Delhi railway station

The New Delhi railway station is the second busiest station in the country with a daily footfall of over 500,000 a day in normal times, but today was different

Railways on the home run: How the transporter is ferrying 10 mn workers

Ferrying migrant workers back to their states would be the largest special service by any railway network in the world in one go. Here's how the transporter manages it

Karnataka cancels special trains for migrants after CM meets builders

The state government has been collecting railway fares from the migrants and every worker had to pay for both train and bus service to reach station in advance

Coronavirus outbreak pulls down rail freight traffic to historic low

Data shows freight traffic and earnings are down for the first time in 18 yrs

Bihar got most workers in special trains, West Bengal the least: Data

TMC MP and leader of the party in Rajya Sabha, Derek O'Brien, however, said the West Bengal government was doing "all it takes" to fight the Covid pandemic, and accused the Centre of playing politics

Railways to pay 85% of train fare for workers, says govt after controversy

Lav Agarwal, joint secretary in the health ministry, gave a clarification after the Congress party offered to pay for the train tickets of migrant workers.

Railway board in a huddle as Congress offers to pay for travel of migrants

Sonia Gandhi said in a letter to the state units that every Pradesh Congress committee shall bear the cost of rail travel for every needy worker and migrant labourer

Railways has money for PM-CARES, but not for workers' rail travel: Rahul

Congress will bear the cost for rail travel of every needy migrant worker and labourer to their respective home towns, says Sonia Gandhi

Congress offers to pay for migrants rail travel, Swamy slams govt

The Congress said Rail Ministry has charged a 'special fare' from migrants for the 'Shramik Special' trains

Cong to bear rail travel cost of every needy migrant workers: Sonia Gandhi

She also accused the central government and the Railways of completely ignoring the demands made by the Congress for ensuring the safe and free travel of migrant workers

Unclear road back home; Odisha migrants arrive from Kerala on Shramik train

The train was one of the first five Shramik Specials to start on Friday, while 10 such trains departed on Saturday

Non-stop, 1200 passengers: 10 things you should know about 'Shramik Train'

Trains should have at least 90 per cent occupancy to operate

Railways issues guidelines for Shramik special train passengers

As per the guidelines issued by the Union Railways Ministry, Railways will print train tickets to the specified destination as per the number of passengers indicated by the originating state

Six-fold increase in food grain transport by South Central Railway in April

It ran a total of 457 food grain rakes carrying 1.23 million tonnes of food grains mainly to various locations in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal

Covid-19 hinterland digest: Haryana govt jacks up prices of key commodities

The prices of fruits and vegetables can go up as the government has decided to charge a 2 per cent market fee

First special train with 1,200 migrants runs from Telangana to Jharkhand

The decision on running more trains will be taken after a final MHA notification, likely to come on Friday or Saturday

Online interviews held for temporary nurse vacancies under Northern Railway

Several candidates who had come here for the offline (personal) interview claimed that they were told to go back as the interviews were only being conducted online

May Day in times of pandemic: A long march for Indian migrant workers

Here's a look at the status of thousands of migrant workers amid the global pandemic and also the measures announced for their welfare

Covid-19: First special train for migrants runs from Telangana to Jharkhand

Many states have urged the Union govt to run special trains to bring bag millions of stranded migrants back to their home states

Home ministry to take call on passenger trains to transport migrants soon

According to media reports, Indian Railways has lined up a plan to run at least 400 trains for the movement of stranded labourers across the country