CHINA’S BIG HOLIDAY SEASON AMIDST LUNAR NEW YEAR TRAVEL BUG SO FAR SO GOOD

• An eerie calm prevailed over Beijing’s main train station as efforts to dissuade Chinese from traveling for Lunar New Year appeared to be on course. Passenger strength at the station was less than seen usually in past years.
• It was with Thursday which commenced the roughl...

CHINA FOREARMED WITH COVID-19 TESTS FOR LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAY SEASON

• China has decided to enforce strict COVID testing implementations during the Lunar New Year holiday season, when teeming millions of people are waiting to travel, as it fights the worst spell of new infections since March 2020.
• China plans to enforce stringent COVID testing req...

JICA LAUNCHED AN ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT FOREIGN WORKERS IN JAPAN

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• JICA launched an organization to support foreign workers in Japan.
• The agency will seek to make Japan an attractive choice for foreigners to work in.
• The organization aims to produce tangible results by 2023.
• A...

SINGAPORE DORMITORY UNDER CONSTANT VIGIL TO HELP CONTAIN THE VIRUS SPREAD

HIGHLIGHTS

• Singapore found new 61 COVID-19 cases today out of which 2 are from local community transmission and three imported diseases, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).

This marks the least number of cases since the start of the lockdown in ...

SONU SOOD DOES IT AGAIN, BRINGS BACK STRANDED STUDENTS FROM KYRGYZSTAN

Highlights

• The first charter flight took off from Bishkek on Thursday and brought back 135 stranded students to Varanasi

• Bollywood actor Sonu Sood thanked SpiceJet and said the second flight will take off from Kyrgyzstan to Vizag on July 24

• Sonu ...

‘SKILL, RE-SKILL AND UPSKILL': PM MODI'S NEW MANTRA FOR THE YOUTH

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• PM Narendra Modi said skill is timeless and is the only thing that keeps getting better with time and makes one different from others

• The government is providing employment to all the migrant workers on the basis of their skillset said PM Modi

FM SITHARAMAN: PM MODI WILL LAUNCH RS 50,000 CRORE ‘GARIB KALYAN ROJGAR ABHIYAN' SCHEME

Highlights

• This scheme will be launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 11 a.m. on June 20

• The Chief Minister and Deputy Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi will attend this event via video conferencing

• Nearly 25,000 migrant wo...

MY WORK FOR MIGRANTS IS PURELY OUT OF LOVE, NOTHING POLITICAL ABOUT IT SAYS SONU SOOD

It won’t be unfair to say that the work done by Bollywood actor Sonu Sood in the times of COVID-19 lockdown has given him more praises and fame than his 16-year-old movie career. Sonu Sood has helped nearly 20,000 migrant workers to go back to their homes in different states of Odisha, Jhar...

80 MIGRANTS LOST THEIR LIVES ON SHRAMIK SPECIAL TRAINS

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• Shramik special trains started operating from May 1 and have ferried lakhs of migrants home

• After the large-scale return of migrants, the states of Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar have reported significant increase in the number of coronavirus cases

DELHI: MIGRANT WORKERS CLASH WITH POLICE AT GURUGRAM BORDER

Highlights

• According to the FIR registered by the Gurugram police, migrant workers turned violent and pelted stones on them near Palam Vihar

• The migrant workers were from Delhi and wanted to get in Haryana where industries have resumed in Udyog Vihar area

AFTER MSMEs, INDIA’S ECONOMIC PACKAGE FOCUSES ON SELF-EMPLOYED & MIGRANT WORKERS

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of economic package worth Rs 20 lakh crore, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman came on Wednesday and announced measures which focused on reviving MSMEs and small businesses. On Thursday, FM Sitharaman came with further breakup of...

MAHARASHTRA: 15 MIGRANT WORKERS MOWED DOWN BY GOODS TRAIN NEAR AURANGABAD

Fifteen migrant workers lost their lives while one got injured after being run over by a goods train near Aurangabad in the state of Maharashtra on Friday. 
According to the Indian Railways about 20 migrant workers were sleeping on the railway tracks and 14 of them lost their lives an...

GO AIR OFFERS TO FERRY STRANDED MIGRANTS TO THEIR NATIVE STATES

• Go Air offer to fly Migrant Workers to their Home State at a crucial moment
• They have approached the Civil Aviation Ministry with their act of benevolence

Go Air have become the good Samaritans having offered to ferry the stranded migrants to their respective ...