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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicImmigrants

Topic: immigrants

Taiwan lures bankers, skilled workers looking to escape a tense Hong Kong

Hours after the Hong Kong's new security law came into effect Tuesday, Taiwan opened an office dedicated to making migration easier for residents and companies.

‘La Bestia’ — the train of violence and assault that takes migrants to US-Mexico border

La Bestia is the freight train migrants use to get from southern Mexico to the US border when they can’t afford a bus ticket or a smuggler.

Make more babies or embrace foreign workers – the Covid-19 message to rich Asian nations

Pulling up the drawbridge to halt spread of the disease and protect domestic businesses would be perilous as foreign workers are critical.

Food after lathicharge in Covid-19 lockdown, and the Mahabharat war against coronavirus

The best cartoons of the day chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Why Punjabis leave thousands of toy planes at this gurudwara near Jalandhar

Earlier, the majority of Punjabis looking to emigrate to UK, USA & Canada were rural farmers. But now, students and job-seeking youth have joined them in droves.

Now, Donald Trump bars immigrants who can’t afford healthcare

US President Donald Trump, who is up for re-election in 2020, made cracking down on immigration a key part of his 2016 presidential campaign.

With Assam NRC, the truth is also out — it was a pointless exercise all along

NRC has achieved little — except to create panic in Assam, give India a bad name, eat into SC's time, cost over Rs 1100 crore & give BJP a dangerous tool.

Children out, parents in: The real challenge begins now that final Assam NRC is here

The final NRC excludes 19 lakh people. The Constitution will now be put to test in each case before Foreigners Tribunal.

Immigrants should do more than just send money home

Studies suggest remittances have a small effect on economic growth as families that receive it tend to work less and such countries may come to be dependent on those flows.

US Congress to vote on bill to lift cap on Green Cards, could benefit Indians with H1-B visas

The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act is set to sail through the 435-member House of Representatives Tuesday and is being supported by more than 310 lawmakers.

On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.