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Railways to resume passenger service in phases with strict safety norms

Passengers can make advance reservations seven days earlier from the normal four months before the date of journey. On cancellation, only 50 per cent of the fare would be refunded

Tamil Nadu's MSMEs want measures similar to those offered by other states

Demand raising working hours to 12 a day, leeway to units to work out the number of hands required, choice to migrants between a ticket back home and Rs 5,000 for staying behind

Human nature to want to go home: Modi tells CMs in meeting

Chief ministers are likely to push for allowing economic activities to resume slowly, as the centre weighs a graded exit from the 54-day lockdown

With 'no food, no money', migrant workers continue to struggle in Delhi

Around 20-25 migrant workers living in New Delhi, who hail from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, have started their journey back home on foot.

Statsguru: Migrant workers' exit to job crisis, victory over Covid-19 tough

Joblessness is rising, migrants are returning home in India, and macroeconomic fundamentals are deteriorating

Targeting labour laws: On whose behalf do states operate?

Suspending legal protections for workers that evolved over time, will come with social and political consequences

Best of BS Opinion: Govt's borrowing plan, coronavirus outbreak, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Bengal migrant workers denied Jan, Feb pays, while contractors go missing

Several migrant workers who are back in West Bengal have not been paid dues for close to two and half months, when they slogged for close to eight hours a day

Reform, don't trample

Workers can't be completely at the mercy of employers

MP labour law changes: Relaxed licence norms for contract workers

Recognition of trade unions for collective bargaining no longer possible for key industrial sectors

Letter to BS: Centre, state govts are oblivious to migrant workers' woes

Letter to BS: Centre, state govts are oblivious to migrant workers' woes

Political slugfest breaks out in UP over migrant workers' return

All the major opposition parties - the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, and Congress - have upped the ante against the Adityanath dispensation

An uphill task: UP govt faces the challenge of resettling 1.5 mn migrants

For thousands of his ilk stranded in Gujarat, Maharashtra, and other industrialised states, the homecoming was made possible only after the Centre decided to ply non-stop interstate special trains

No pay, no food: Rocky work-life balance turns Surat daily wagers violent

In the textile industry alone, there are an estimated 1.5 million migrant workers

Over 360,000 migrants ferried in 350 Shramik trains so far: Railways

While 263 trains have already reached their destinations, 87 are still on the run. Forty-six more trains are in the pipeline

5 migrant workers killed, 13 injured as truck overturns in Madhya Pradesh

The accident took place near Patha village on Saturday night when nearly 20 migrant labourers were going in the truck to Jhansi

Aurangabad train accident: Raised an alarm but to no avail, says eyewitness

As many as 16 migrant labourers were killed and five others injured when a freight train ran over them between Jalna and Aurangabad on Friday

Long walk home ends in tragedy: Goods train mows down 16 migrants

Migrants fell asleep on railway track in Maharashtra

Labour law changes in UP, MP a bigger pandemic in the offing: BMS President

In a Q&A, C K Saji Narayanan says the proposed amendments will lead to the law of the jungle, and that the unions will definitely agitate against them