West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has exhorted her party members to continue the "movement" against the detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states. But will that be enough to bring in votes?
Lights flicker, doors hang off their hinges and holes in the walls expose pipes in the apartment building where Hesham, an Egyptian migrant worker, lives in Dubai, an emirate better known for its flashy skyscrapers and penthouses.
Residents took to social media to share their experience about the sudden disappearance of domestic workers and sanitation staff in parts of Gurugram.
Thirteen days after the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district, police have arrested the suspect, identified as Biswakarma, a migrant worker from Assam.
PM Narendra Modi on Friday tore into the Trinamool Congress, accusing it of risking Bengal's identity and national security by promoting infiltration for vote-bank politics, and asserted that only the BJP genuinely stands for Bengali 'asmita'.
Afraid of being interrogated or detained by the ICE officers, Regina Higuera and her family drove down to Tijuana, Mexico.
A drunk driver of an Audi car allegedly ran over five people, including two couples and an eight-year-old girl, injuring them while they were sleeping on a footpath near Shiva Camp in southwest Delhi's Vasant Vihar area, an official said on Saturday.
Taking up two habeas corpus petitions alleging illegal detention of migrant workers from West Bengal in Delhi, the Calcutta High Court Friday directed the administration in the northern state to clarify whether they are under detention.
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West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday wrote to his Odisha counterpart, urging him to put an end to "harassment" of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in certain parts of the neighbouring state.
The Trump administration has moved to end deportation protections the United States granted to thousands of Nepalese people after a 2015 earthquake devastated the country, according to a government notice posted on Thursday.
The UK government is planning to tighten visa requirements for migrant workers to curb the number of people coming to Britain through legal routes.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Sunday sought External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's intervention to bring back the kidnapped migrant workers.
Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people confirmed to have died on perilous routes that include crossing the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean Sea, the UN migration agency said on Friday.
Three migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh were burnt to death early Tuesday when a tent in which they were sleeping caught fire in East Delhi's Anand Vihar area. A case of causing death by negligence was registered by police.
At the heart of this controversy lies the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) investigation into the matter, aimed at safeguarding jobs for US workers.
Canada's latest steps to curb migration is likely to have an adverse effect on tens of thousands of foreign students, including those from India. It will also negatively impact those who apply for work and resident permits.
Three migrant workers from Bihar have been arrested in Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur for the alleged sexual assault of a migrant woman worker from Odisha.
Exiting Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday called for remote voting mechanisms for NRIs and migrant workers, biometric authentication to cast votes, and non-disclosure of votes (to guard against post-poll violence) for each candidate.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers have been instructed to change their vocabulary around gender and immigration.
Actor Sonu Sood, who helped migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, recently revealed that he was offered some big political posts such as the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, and a seat in the Rajya Sabha.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday expressed grief over the killing of two migrant workers from the state in Manipur's Kakching district, and announced ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for family members of the deceased.
Two teenage migrant workers from Bihar were shot dead in Manipur's Kakching district on Saturday evening, the police said.
A migrant worker was brutally killed by a person allegedly following an argument while drinking alcohol in the fields at Chak Singha village in Garhshankar subdivision here, police said on Tuesday.
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