India, Jamaica agree to boost trade, skilled mobility, healthcare cooperation: JaishankarIndia and Jamaica are forging a dynamic partnership to enhance trade and foster collaboration in skilled labor. Recent talks delved into ar...
05 May, 2026, 03.11 PM IST
‘Indian workers are central to Middle East oil — yet, they’re unseen’Indian migrants have been crucial to the Middle Eastern oil industry from its beginnings. Professor Andrea Wright highlights their signific...
30 Apr, 2026, 11.55 PM IST
Global Bihar: How Biharis spread all over the worldPrime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged Kamla Persad-Bissessar's Bihar roots during his Trinidad and Tobago visit. A century ago, many In...
04 Jul, 2025, 07.11 PM IST
Cambridge University launches fellowship to study Indian indentured labour historyThe University of Cambridge's Selwyn College has appointed Guyanese-American Professor Gaiutra Bahadur as the first-ever Ramesh and Leela N...
04 Aug, 2023, 06.09 PM IST
Descendants of indentured labourers want government to look into the issues facing PIOsIndentured labourers’ descendants, attending Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, want govt to look into issues facing PIOs.
19 Jan, 2019, 11.24 PM IST
Indian indentured labourers' a story of success: DiplomatAs many as 3.5 million Indians were transported to various colonies of European powers to provide labour, mainly for sugar plantations.
07 Nov, 2017, 01.38 PM IST
East Indian summer: Two Surinamers revisit their Indian rootsVice-president of the South American republic since 2015, Adhin was the chief guest at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) in Bengaluru recen...
29 Jan, 2017, 12.01 AM IST
Convert PIO cards to OCI cards, PM Narendra Modi tells overseas IndiansPM urged the People of Indian Origin (PIO) to convert their cards into Overseas Citizen of India cards, reiterating the government's decisi...
08 Jan, 2017, 02.20 PM IST
Statue to commemorate 1st Indians in South Africa to be builtA commemorative statue to honour the memory of first Indian indentured labourers' arrival to South Africa in 1860 will be erected at a beac...
03 Feb, 2016, 05.15 PM IST
Stressing on Know India Programmes for PIO countries: Sushma SwarajShe said her ministry was stressing on the Know India Program for the children of the residents of the PIO countries so that they can know ...
07 Oct, 2015, 08.18 PM IST
PM Modi pays homage to Indian immigrants at 'Aapravasi Ghat'PM Modi today visited the 'Aapravasi Ghat' here and paid homage to the "brave" Indian indentured labourers who arrived in Mauritius nearly ...
12 Mar, 2015, 04.37 PM IST
Ghar wapsi: 100 years ago, Gandhi returned from S Africa to turn citizens into heroesHis ‘ghar wapsi’ after a ‘banwas’ of 22 years was hailed not just by urban and educated Indians who held receptions for him in Bombay.
09 Jan, 2015, 12.42 PM IST
India set to include Mauritius in Visa on Arrival schemeIndia is working on the inclusion of Mauritius in the group of countries to be listed in its Visa on Arrival scheme, External Affairs Minis...
03 Nov, 2014, 05.34 PM IST
Sushma Swaraj hails India, Mauritius friendshipMauritian President Rajkeswur Purryag, Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam and Swaraj's counterpart Arvin Boolell were also part of the a...
02 Nov, 2014, 04.44 PM IST
- FTA will be a win-win deal: Anand Satyanand
Even though Satyanand's tenure as Governor-General of NZ is drawing to an end, he is upbeat about Indo-Kiwi trade relations.
17 Jan, 2011, 04.00 AM IST
- Government to unveil memorial on indentured labour in Kolkata
Thousands of men and women set sail from Kolkata port for various destinations around the world to work as indentured labour at British pla...
08 Jan, 2011, 12.03 AM IST
- Africa celebrates 150th year of Indian arrival
South Africa on Tuesday marks the 150th year since the first indentured Indian workers arrived by boat in Durban where curry, bindis and sa...
14 Nov, 2010, 10.05 PM IST