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The art of lying: How ThePrint spread fake news about who is paying for Shramik trains while reporting SC proceedings

Reportage of the SC case regarding the migrant labourers and Shramik trains only exposes how ThePrint focusses on spreading fake news

29 May, 2020

Rana Ayyub shares Hindustan Times report to claim a child’s death in Bihar was due to ‘starvation’, gets fact-checked by Indian Railways

Hindustan Times had published an article dated May 27, 2020, titled: "Migrants’ kid dies as father hunts for milk at railway station", claiming that a four-and-a-half-year-old son of migrants from…

28 May, 2020

Opposition parties choose politics over human life, states run by them have approved far less Shramik Special Trains compared to NDA run states

Compared to NDA run states, opposition run states have given approval for a very small number of Shramik Special Trains

27 May, 2020

Several Shramik trains from Maharashtra cancelled again due to lack of passengers, state govt still requesting trains for cyclone-hit West Bengal and Odisha

After only 39 trains were run yesterday from Maharashtra against the planned 125 trains, the same incident is repeating today

26 May, 2020

Trains have been going back empty because of Uddhav Thackeray government’s failure to provide details of migrants: Piyush Goyal

Goyal stated that train journeys have to be planned and the ministry does not want that after all the preparations and planning, the trains only idle on respective stations and…

25 May, 2020

Railway Minister refutes ‘insufficient train’ claim of Maharashtra, says state govt not providing passenger details, already 65 trains cancelled due to non-cooperation

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal exposes Maharashtra govt by asking for details of 125 trains for tomorrow within an hour on Twitter

24 May, 2020

Bihar: 8% of initial lot samples from migrant workers returned to state tested coronavirus positive so far, similar patterns in Jharkhand

Principal Health Secretary of Jharkhand Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, "With thousands still returning home every day, we do not have the infrastructure to put all of them in institutional…

19 May, 2020

Gujarat: Migrant workers bow down to their ‘Karmabhoomi’ before leaving for their hometown on Shramik Express, promise to return back

An elated Krishnavati reiterated, "Gujarat has given us everything. We will be back."

16 May, 2020

145 Shramik Special Trains moved 2.10 lakh people to their native places in one day: Indian Railways

On Thursday, 145 Shramik trains were operated by Indian Railways and nearly 2.10 lakh passengers were ferried home

15 May, 2020