Indian Migrants

UK records spike in Indians crossing over illegally in small boats

Britain has recorded a spike in Indians crossing over illegally into the country across the English Channel last year, when a total of 683 largely Indian men were reported to have landed on its shores via small boats. This figure, according to the latest UK Home Office "Irregular Migration to the UK" statistics for the year ending December 2022, shows a progressive rise from the 67 Indian nationals recorded to have crossed over in small boats in 2021, 64 in 2020 and none in 2019 and 2018. The UK has a returns agreement with India under the Migration and Mobility Partnership (MMP), something which was referred to by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Parliament last week. "We have returns agreements with India, Pakistan, Serbia, Nigeria and crucially now with Albania, where we are returning hundreds of people," Sunak told the Commons during Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs). "Our position is clear: if you arrive here illegally you will not be able to claim asylum here, you will

Gulf migrants tapped to smuggle gold, narcotics spike surprise officials

The annual report for 2021-22 released by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman goes into granular details of how smuggling has massively diversified

UK home secy and her remarks on Indian migrants: Who is Suella Braverman?

Braverman's remarks on Indians overstaying in the UK have reportedly annoyed the officials in New Delhi and the India-UK FTA is on a verge of collapse

Labour ministry urges states to fastrack e-Shram portal registrations

The e- Shram portal is the first-ever national database of unorganised workers including migrant workers, construction workers, gig and platform workers, etc

Sonia asks govt to give migrant workers Rs 7,500 monthly in lockdown

The Congress chief also accused the Narendra Modi government of not listening to the plight of the migrant workers

Does UP govt want to scrap labourers' constitutional rights, asks Priyanka

CM Adityanath had on May 25 said that the state government will provide social security and insurance to labourers

Lockdown: 24 migrant labourers killed, 36 injured in UP truck collision

Chief Minister Adityanath expresses condolences, indication on financial assistance to victims' kin soon

In pictures: It's a long walk home for migrant workers amid lockdown

While government announces Vande Bharat mission for Indians stranded abroad, migrant workers walk back to their native places

In new system UK will be open to 'best and brightest' from India: Britain

The UK also wants to ink a pact with India similar to the one New Delhi has with France, treating each other's academic degrees as equivalent for higher studies and jobs, sources said

Paradise in the making

Really? Then why are more Indians than ever before so desperate to flee India?

India's migration opportunity

MGI estimates that migrants contributed around $6.7 trillion, or 9.4% of the global GDP, in 2015