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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: Migration

Urban Company’s new ad highlights migration bias—and who gets to be visible

The new film, Chhoti si Doori, which is part of Urban Company’s Dignity of Labour campaign, explores the contrast between blue-collar and white-collar migration—through a Bihar-to-Bengaluru lens.

Kerala has an education crisis. Student migration has doubled since 2020

A supplement dedicated to the Invest Kerala Summit had to share space with a half-page ‘Study Abroad’ advertisement—a fair depiction of the predicament the state finds itself in.

Migrants are more than just a problem–they enrich cultures too

A recent discussion around the 2024 book ‘Border Crossers’ focused on many contemporary issues – Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigrants to internal migration in India.

Mira Nair wants to make a film on US immigrant crisis. ‘What’s happening is shocking’

At a panel on ‘Films and Migration’ at India Habitat Centre, Nair said that she wants to make films only she can. ‘I can tell stories about migration because I know it.’

Our hearts beat for US deportees but turn against Rohingyas entering India. That’s hypocrisy

This public sympathy, unprecedented for “illegal” migrants, stems from the knowledge that in a different reality, the deportees’ gamble might have been our own.

Bengal mustn’t gloat over EAC-PM migration report. Skilled labour still moving to other states

One of the most contentious conclusions the EAC-PM's '400 Million Dreams' report draws is that migration has reduced across the country by 11.8 per cent from 2011 to 2023.

Bhutan’s mass migration is a security threat. It must balance tradition & modernity

Limited career prospects and aspirations for a modern lifestyle are the key reasons driving the exodus of Bhutan’s population. It has become an existential threat.

Siberia to Mozambique via Manipur, how the Amur falcons traverse the world in search of warmth

The migratory birds went from being hunted to protected in Northeast India in the span of a decade, reflecting one of the best conservation efforts in India.

Internal displacement in Ethiopia is reversing progress, UN agencies warn

UNDP, UNHCR and IOM call for shift from aid to development.

Australia caps foreign student intake, Canada to allow fewer temporary workers amid spiralling migration

Both countries had loosened migration rules following labour shortage post-Covid. But record levels of migration have spiked rental prices & unemployment rates, with elections next year.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

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.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

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.