UK's migrant care workers face widespread exploitation, survey showsForeign workers in Britain's social care sector have been paying thousands in fraudulent fees for jobs, living in overcrowded conditions, a...
11 Feb, 2025, 04.49 PM IST
Roses are blue, violets are red: Party lines are blurring in the US as Republicans & Democrats swap traitsDonald Trump has disrupted traditional American political ideologies, leading to confusion among voters about the core values of both the R...
17 Oct, 2024, 10.48 PM IST
Legal experts welcome Centre's move to replace colonial-era laws, voice reservations over naming them in HindiThe Indian government has introduced three bills to replace colonial-era laws, the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian...
11 Aug, 2023, 07.56 PM IST
UK PM Rishi Sunak's Illegal Migration Bill clears Parliament hurdleThe British government's Illegal Migration Bill, instrumental to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to "stop the boats" of illegal migrant...
18 Jul, 2023, 08.42 PM IST
Barge to house asylum-seekers arrives in UK as Parliament passes controversial migration billA barge, Bibby Stockholm, that can accommodate 500 asylum-seekers, arrived in England after Parliament passed a bill aimed at curbing migra...
18 Jul, 2023, 05.45 PM IST
US Vice President Kamala Harris makes history with tie-breaking votes in SenateUS Vice President Kamala Harris tied a 191-year-old record by casting her 31st tie-breaking vote to break the 50-50 Senate deadlock on the ...
13 Jul, 2023, 03.35 PM IST
View: Want to save the planet? Re-Industrialize through renewablesInstead of focusing on degrowth, China and India are prioritizing technology to enable people to aspire to a more prosperous life next year...
20 May, 2023, 08.20 PM IST
UK minister Suella Braverman's migration policy branded 'racist'Nimco Ali, a one-time campaigner for the governing Conservative Party who left her job as a government adviser in December last year, told ...
14 Mar, 2023, 09.37 PM IST
Britain's controversial asylum plan explainedInterior minister Suella Braverman says that as many as 80,000 could cross by the end of the year, and that the "broken" asylum system is c...
08 Mar, 2023, 05.57 PM IST
How English gardens transformed UK economy over 350 yearsIn “England’s Magnificent Gardens: How a Billion-Dollar Industry Transformed a Nation, from Charles II to Today”, the author argues that ga...
10 Aug, 2021, 10.01 AM IST
Trump bats for merit-based immigration, says he wants people to come into US, but legallyHis statement raised hopes of hundreds of thousands of Indian IT professionals who are the worst sufferers of the current per country quota...
06 Feb, 2019, 05.13 PM IST
8 million people live in 'modern slavery' in India, says report; govt junks claimThe estimation data were drawn from 54 surveys conducted in 48 countries which included a module on Modern Slavery, with a total sample of ...
20 Jul, 2018, 11.54 AM IST
Child labour can disrupt 'Make in India', Kailash Satyarthi tells Prime Minister Narendra ModiHe says that the 'Make in India' programme is a great move, but it also exposes a serious weakness of the country.
17 Mar, 2016, 04.32 PM IST
Slavery victims in UK higher than previous figures: GovernmentAccording to the latest Home Office analysis, there could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK.
29 Nov, 2014, 04.58 PM IST
India has more slaves than any other country: 14.7 millionIn some parts of the world, people are still born into hereditary slavery, in others, people are trafficked from one state to another.
21 Oct, 2013, 08.13 AM IST
India tops new global slavery indexAbout 14 million Indians are living in conditions of modern-day slavery, nearly half of 30 million across the world.
17 Oct, 2013, 05.38 PM IST
Narendra Modi slams UPA government's food security programmeGujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said the Centre was under the impression that merely bringing in the Bill would lead to food reaching ...
14 Jul, 2013, 03.28 PM IST