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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
TopicIndian migrants

Topic: Indian migrants

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

How 1 man’s deportation from US led Delhi cops to dunki racket involving a govt school teacher

His interrogation after he was deported last year led Delhi Police to the agents, who were arrested earlier this year. He paid 41 lakh & travelled for 13 months to get to the US.

Panama’s jungles, Nicaragua’s ‘electric shock’ camps, tracing the deadly dunki route to America

Hoping to enter the US illegally, these migrants made their way through dense jungles and perilous treks from Peru to Mexico, but their dreams ended at the California border.

Who are you not gonna call? MAGA man & The EC-iest way to put your head in the sand

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

Opposition protests US deportation of Indians, several MPs sport handcuffs in Parliament

Lawmakers said the manner in which the over 100 Indians were sent back on a military flight, with ‘hands and feet in chains’, was humiliating.

US military aircraft has departed for India with migrants aboard, says official

President Trump has increasingly turned to military to help carry out his immigration agenda, including using military aircraft to deport migrants & opening military bases to house them.

How the Vietnam War helped more Indian doctors migrate to the US in 1970s

In 'Indian Genius', Meenakshi Ahamed provides fascinating portraits of Indian Americans who started the wave of success stories abroad.

New book explores the travels of ordinary Indian migrants in Colonial India

Published by HarperCollins India, ‘The Other Mohan in Britain's India Ocean Empire’ will be released on 15 November on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

26 yrs gone, most accused & witnesses dead — Malta boat tragedy case still languishes in CBI court

On 26 December 1996, 170 Indian migrants drowned when their boat capsized near Malta. While CBI filed a chargesheet in 1997, only 11 of 206 prosecution witnesses examined so far.

Indians constitute largest migrant group in Australia followed by China

From 2011 to 2021, Indian-born migrants rose by 373,000, followed by 208,000 from China and 118,000 from the Philippines, Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed.

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No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.