Category: Lockdown Hunger
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महाराष्ट्र: कोरोना महामारी की मार से त्रस्त सोनगीर के बर्तन कारीगर
महाराष्ट्र में धुले के करीब सोनगीर तांबे और पीतल के बर्तनों के लिए देश भर में जाना जाता है। करोना संक्रमण के कारण सख्त लॉकडाउन आपदा और मंदी के कारण यहां पिछले एक साल से काम प्रभावित हुआ है। वहीं, बरसात के दिनों में तांबा काला पड़ने से कारीगरों द्वारा बर्तन बनाने का काम रोक…
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Kolkata boy extends a helping hand to joyride horses of Victoria Memorial
Kolkata: A law student by day and YouTuber by night, aptly describes this 21-year-old lad from Kolkata, who has been utilising social media to counter hate and fake news being peddled in scores. And when he is not doing any of the two mentioned above, he is busy nurturing the kids that he had adopted…
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Migrant Family Starved Three Days At New Delhi Station
New Delhi: Caught in the nationwide lockdown without work or money, thousands of migrant workers are still stranded in different states despite the Indian Railways starting “Shramik Special” trains to take them home. Countless migrant families amid the confusion about transport have been walking to reach their native places in the blazing summer, most of them…
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Five-year-old Dalit girl allegedly dies of hunger in Jharkhand
Ranchi: Jharkhand has already witnessed several alleged starvation deaths between the years 2017 to 2019 because of the callousness of the previous regime. Thanks to the ongoing lockdown, it is again on the verge of witnessing a repeat of the same. A five-year-old girl, Nimani, resident of Laterhar district in Jharkhand died allegedly of starvation…
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Young Bengali Migrant labourer commits suicide in Kerala after train ticket was cancelled for the second time
Kolkata: Twenty-two-year-old Asif Iqbal Mondal, had been restless to return home, from Kodanad, in Kerala’s Ernakulum district, where he had gone to work at a brick kiln about six months back, only to never return. A depressed Asif on Saturday evening chose to hang himself at a mango orchard in Kodanad. During the last telephonic…
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Daily wagers find alternate income ops to survive lockdown
Kolkata: According to the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) the current data of unemployment in India is at a record high of 27.1%, four times than that of US. Unemployment rate went up to 25.5% in April, from 8.7% in March highest since August 2016 when demonetisation happened. Now, due to lockdown situation…
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Providing 25 kg free foodgrain to 8 lakh households, will cost only Rs 44 crore per month, says RTF to Jharkhand govt
Kolkata: A team from Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand Chapter met Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Food Minister Rameshwar Uraon to alert them of the imminent danger of hunger and starvation in the state due to the on-going lockdown. After meeting CM Soren, the team comprising prominent economist Jean Dreze, Asharfi Nand Prasad, Balram, Siraj…
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Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren orders inquiry into migrants getting threat for asking water at quarantine centre
Kolkata: When the news report highlighting the plight of migrant workers put up at a quarantine centre in Maithan was published, Jharkhand’s Chief Minister Hemant Soren ordered an inquiry and asked deputy commissioner of Dhanbad to take immediate action on the basis of eNewsroom report. The news report published on Wednesday indicated that the migrants…
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Migrants ask for water, gets shoot threat in Jharkhand quarantine center
Kolkata: When 300 migrant workers from West Bengal and Jharkhand complained of not getting water and food, then they were threatened by the driver of an official of the Dhanbad quarantine centre. He threatened to shoot the complaining workers. The migrants labours stuck in the centre are mostly of West Bengal and a few from…
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Bengal jute mill workers face acute food scarcity amid lockdown, activists write to Mamata
Kolkata: The lockdown has got another extension of 19 days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today announced that the lockdown would continue till May 3 in an attempt to control transmission of COVID-19. Some lauded the move, while many living in the bottom of the social pyramid cursed their luck. Not many may be aware of…