Page 3 - Migrants

Angela Merkel asks Putin to intervene with Belarus over migrants

Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to intervene with Belarus over the migrant situation on that country's border with Poland

Germany remains EU's main migrant destination with 100,000 Annual Requests

Germany remains the most popular European destination for migrants, with more than 100,000 asylum bids recorded for nine years in a row, media said Sunday.

HC asks govts to reply to plea for electricity connection for Pak migrants

The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought replies from the Centre, Delhi government and Tata Power on a plea seeking electricity connection for nearly 800 Hindu migrants from Pakistan

US ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in Texas

The US plans to speed up its efforts to expel Haitian migrants on flights to their Caribbean homeland, officials have said as agents poured into a Texas border city

57 feared dead after boat capsizes off Libya coast: United Nations

Fifty-seven people have been presumed dead as boat carrying migrants has capsized off Libya, as per United Nations migration official.Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration, said the boat left the western coastal town of Khums on Sunday. There were at least 75 people on board, reported Al Jazeera.Eighteen people from the vessel were rescued and returned to shore on Monday, Msehli said.The survivors, who are from Nigeria, Ghana and Gambia, reported the vessel had stopped due to an engine problem, then capsized amid bad weather, Msehli said."According to survivors brought to shore by fishermen and the coast guard, at least 20 women and two children were among those who drowned," Msehli wrote on Twitter.The capsizing is the latest disaster in the Mediterranean Sea involving migrants and refugees seeking a better life in Europe, said Al Jazeera further.Monday's deaths came less than a week after some 20 people also drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, ...

Covid-19 pandemic: Tales of migrant workers betray a year of woes

Their lives thrown into disarray, they struggle with lack of aid, jobs and vaccine

CDC exempts unaccompanied migrant children from deportation at US border

Unaccompanied migrant children will be exempt from a ban on migrants seeking asylum at the US border, federal health officials have ordered

One-Nation-One-Ration-Card suffers from exclusion issues, say experts

Scheme does not embrace 100 mn people who are otherwise entitled to NFSA ration cards, but don't possess them simply because the list has not been updated since 2011

SC orders implementation of 'one nation, one ration card scheme' by July 31

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed states and union territories to implement the 'one nation, one ration card scheme' till July 31

Globalisation, old and new: What changing world order means for India

Globalisation is morphing as new agendas come into focus. These now drive action on climate change, taxation of global companies, tackling terrorism, sharing vaccines and the like, writes T N Ninan

UK minister Priti Patel to unveil US-style digital visas to count migrants

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to unveil a new US-style digital visa regime at the country's borders in order to measure immigration levels in and out of the country

'Survival is tough': SC asks govt to consider harsh realities of migrants

The top court also noted that it will pass order on facilitating transport of those who are willing to go back to their native places.

Travel bans expose migrants to Covid, make them potential carriers: Study

Research says medium-duration travel bans are counterproductive, for they trap migrants in cities that are Covid-19 hotspots.

Migrants separated from their children will be allowed into the US

A handful of parents from Mexico and Central America who were deported under the Trump administration's family separation policy will be reunited this week with their children

Lockdown taught the poor atmanirbharta

Book review of Locking Down the Poor

'Border is closed': Biden administration pushes back amid mounting crisis

Homeland Security Secretary said the administration's message to would-be border-crossers was simple: "Now is not the time to come. Do not come. The journey is dangerous"

Over 6.4 mn migrant labourers reached home safely by Shramik trains: Goyal

Over 6.4 mn migrant labourers reached home safely by Shramik trains during the COVID-19 pandemic, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal

UN says 15 Europe-bound migrants die at sea off Libya as boat capsizes

At least 15 Africans drowned when their boat capsized Sunday off Libya, a UN spokeswoman said, the second shipwreck involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe in just over a week.

How states fare in Migrant Policy Index: Kerala on top, Delhi near bottom

India's average IMPEX 2019 score for 28 states and the Union Territory of NCT Delhi is 37 out of 100, reflecting the limited attention paid to integration efforts in destination states

Hundreds of migrants reach United Kingdom in record month of crossings

Hundreds of migrants have taken advantage of the warm weather and calm seas in the English Channel to reach the UK in a flurry of small boat crossings