The UK’s growing focus on high-skilled work visas shows a clear intent to attract only the brightest minds—a kind of ‘brain drain’, but on the Western country’s terms.
The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, was introduced in the Lok Sabha by MoS Nityanand Rai. If passed, the bill will repeal and replace 4 existing laws.
PM Justin Trudeau has been walking back his own immigration measures, curtailing numbers of new permanent residents & international students, and revising foreign workers programme.
Not only is CAA discriminatory, but it is 'meant' to be discriminatory. If the government broadens its scope to include Muslims, then the Act becomes politically unpopular and, therefore, pointless.
For the Rishi Sunak govt, the key to solving the migrant issue lies not in careful policy-making or international cooperation but in using the TikTok algorithm for ‘dystopian sponcon’.
The US government Friday ended Title 42, a Covid-inspired provision turning away asylum-seekers for public health reasons, & applied a new rule mandating migrants to use legal pathways.
Suffering labour woes, Budapest has opened up to Indian truckers. Described as punctual, respectful & excellent at vehicle ops, Indian truckers are driving across Europe via Hungary.
Rishi Sunak’s ancestors first migrated to Kenya and then settled in Britain. Like him, Suella Braverman and Priti Patel too are the children of twice migrants.
In FY 2025-26, AoN for 55 proposals amounting to Rs 6.73 lakh cr has been accorded by DAC. Both the quantum of AoN given and capital contracts signed, so far, have been the highest in any FY.
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