Auraiya accident: The incident took place at around 3 am on early Saturday morning. The truck was coming from Rajasthan. All the labourers were mostly from Bihar, Rajasthan and West Bengal

Coronavirus Highlights: Maharashtra on Saturday reported 1,606 new cases and 67 deaths, taking state's tally to 30,706. Meanwhile, Mumbai's total cases reached 18,555 and 696 deaths

Farmer's organisations say while govt claimed 14.5 crore farmers will benefit from PM-KISAN when scheme was announced, only 3 crore farmers got agricultural loans and that is not as part of any special drive carried out under lockdown circumstances

Protest will be against freezing of labour laws and increasing working hours in various states, on migrant workers issues, payment of wages and job losses; BMS will also call for creation of more jobs in unorganised sector and contractual jobs in organised sector

While UP has put a blanket exemption on all labour laws, barring three for next three years, thereby making it easy to hire and fire, MP's approach is far more balanced by amending existing industrial acts

Coronavirus India live updates: The Supreme Court (SC) will reopen its court premises and resume work from the courtrooms from next week. However, the lawyers will argue cases from their chamber, said sources. The total count of confirmed COVID-19 cases jumped to 70,756 on Tuesday, as per the Union Health Ministry

All India Kisan Sabha alleged that the recent move by the BJP Government in Karnataka to dilute the Land Reforms Act of 1961 to allow industries to buy farm land directly from farmers will \"promote corporate land grab and loot of resources\"

The radical relaxation of labour laws by the UP government will neither help in demand generation nor in creation of jobs as argued by the state, say experts

The benchmark 10-year bond yield rose as much as 27 basis points to 6.24% and was last trading at 6.21% at 0437 GMT

From asking factory owners to pay employees during lockdown to abolition of most labour laws, the big climbdown of Yogi Adityanath's government has rubbed trade unions the wrong way

Coronavirus Live Updates: The Prime Minister also mentioned efforts needed to address 'jan se jag tak' - from people to world, adding that the world will change after the coronavirus crisis, as it did after the two World Wars

\"There is already very poor enforcement of labour laws in India, and even those are being suspended and withdrawn. This is very inappropriate and we can't endorse it,\" says BMS General Secretary Virjesh Upadhyay

States like MP, Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat have also followed suit by bringing changes in their respective labour laws to attract investments and revive industrial activity by unshackling companies from restrictions

Coronavirus lockdown live updates: India's 216 districts have reported no positive cases of COVID-19; 42 districts have reported no new case in the last 28 days, says Lav Agrawal, Health Ministry Joint Secretary

Uttar Pradesh government has unshackled the industry from all restrictions of labour laws by promulgating an ordinance that curbs all labour laws in the state, except those regarding bonded labour, ex gratia to workers, and timely wage payments

Coronavirus lockdown live updates: AIIMS Director Dr. Randeep Gulleria said on Thursday that the novel coronavirus cases will peak between June and July. He added the spike in cases will come due to more testing across states. India's total COVID-19 cases stand at 52,952 including 35,902 active cases, 15,266 cured, 1 migrated, and 1,783 deaths, according to the Union Health Ministry

An adequate supply of PPE kits, N95 masks and sanitisers should be maintained, and the capacity of COVID hospitals should be increased, PTI quoted UP CM Yogi Adityanath as saying

This is the first special train to arrive in Uttar Pradesh with stranded migrant workers. The special train started from Nashik on Saturday morning and reached Lucknow via Jhansi and Kanpur

CM Adityanath also directed officials to study the Centre's advisory pertaining to the lockdown, and, restart economic activities accordingly

Corona lockdown extension relaxation live updates: Speaking at a televised meeting, Mishustin suggested that First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov should serve as acting prime minister in his absence