India, on its part, has been allowing cargo flights for carrying food items including fruits and vegetables to the Gulf, which is dependent...

The sudden displacement of migrant labour would have far-reaching impact on the Indian economy.

f the shutdown prolongs, those who have returned home would be under pressure to earn. With few livelihood options in villages, they would ...

In Malappuram district, Gulf returnees line up daily in front of the office of Kerala State Pravasi Welfare Development Co-operative Societ...

Over the last 10 yrs, the no. of blue-collar workers migrating to Gulf nations from Kerala fell by over 90%.

Oman came a close third with 30,413 migrants, which is 16.5% of the total Gulf migration. In 2016, Kuwait was the third most popular destin...

The simmering crisis in the Gulf region, an impact of plummeting oil prices and global economic woes, is sending ripples across the seas to...

Some 10 per cent of Kerala’s population or about 2.4 million Malayalees are sending home about Rs one lakh crore every year from the Gulf.

Eminent personalities in socio-cultural & medical fraternity have urged Kerala govt to raise taxes on all tobacco products to 65% as a meas...

After Saudi Arabia’s decision to implement the restrictive labour law, Nitaqat, it is Kuwait's turn to implement a policy of reducing expat...

Few hundred workers have come back from Saudi Arabia and only 81 have registered with Non Resident Keralites’ Affairs help desk in the Kozh...

The deadline for companies to implement Nitaqat and mandatorily hire a minimum proportion of locals ended a few days ago.

Emigration from the state was dominated by Muslims whose share of the emigrants continued to remain very much higher than their share in th...

Kerala is heading for a significant phase in its demographic transition with the state moving towards achieving zero population growth rate.

The Kerala government isn’t rich enough to spend a lot on its old population.

A study by KC Zachariah and S Irudaya Rajan of the Centre for Development Studies here estimate that about 37,000 Kerala emigrants abroad h...

The good news is that there is no fall, and indeed a rise, in inward remittances to India, but the gloomy side is that in the years ahead, ...