The $138 bn buffer: India’s most visible export can rescue the rupeeIndia is considering a policy push to accelerate overseas deployment of skilled workers as part of a broader strategy to support the rupee ...
19 May, 2026, 02.27 PM IST
India leads in global remittance inflows as overseas workforce and student migration growIndia maintained its position as the world's largest recipient of remittances in 2024, with inflows reaching $138 billion. This significant...
08 May, 2026, 03.56 PM IST
Nearly 8,000 people died or disappeared trying to migrate in 2025Nearly 8,000 people died or disappeared on migration routes last year, with sea routes to Europe proving the deadliest. Many victims were l...
21 Apr, 2026, 04.50 PM IST
Europe seeks to increase deportations as some warn of Trump-like tacticsThe EU is expanding its powers to track, raid, and deport migrants to third countries, adopting tactics similar to the Trump administration...
29 Mar, 2026, 01.36 PM IST
Record number of people died on migration routes in 2024: UNLast year saw a record number of migrant deaths, with nearly 9,000 individuals dying globally, according to the UN. The International Organ...
21 Mar, 2025, 03.05 PM IST
Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, HRW saysHRW said it based its report on witness testimony as well as 350 videos and photos of wounded and killed migrants, and satellite imagery sh...
21 Aug, 2023, 11.16 PM IST
41 migrants missing after new Mediterranean shipwreckForty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citin...
10 Aug, 2023, 12.36 PM IST
Companies like Microsoft can help manage migration: Incoming UN migration chiefWashington's candidate Amy Pope, who beat her Portuguese boss Antonio Vitorino in an tense election last month to head the organisation, sa...
02 Jun, 2023, 12.40 PM IST
UN migration agency elects American as 1st woman directorThe U.N. migration agency says Amy Pope of the United States has been elected as its next director general. She will be the first woman to ...
15 May, 2023, 08.18 PM IST
Explainer: At 100 days, Russia-Ukraine war by the numbersThose images tell just a part of the overall picture of Europe's worst armed conflict in decades. Here's a look at some numbers and statist...
04 Jun, 2022, 01.47 AM IST
Germany pledges to protect refugees after reported rape caseAuthorities in the western city of Duesseldorf confirmed that a young woman who was housed on a hotel boat for refugees on the Rhine river ...
16 Mar, 2022, 08.31 PM IST
Evacuations underway from Ukraine's besieged MariupolRussia's relentless bombardment of Ukraine edged closer to central Kyiv as a series of strikes hit a residential neighbourhood Tuesday, whi...
15 Mar, 2022, 07.57 PM IST
'They were shooting civilians,' say Ukraine refugees who saw abuses"It was very eerie," said Ihor Diekov, one of the many people who crossed the Irpin river outside Kyiv on the slippery wooden planks of a m...
10 Mar, 2022, 08.59 PM IST
More than 50 migrants reported drowned off Tunisia; 33 savedMore than 50 migrants have drowned or disappeared off the coast of Tunisia, while 33 others were rescued by workers from an oil platform, t...
18 May, 2021, 07.59 PM IST
Migrants stranded all over world at heightened risk of COVID-19: IOMThousands of migrants have been stranded "all over the world" where they face a heightened risk of COVID-19 infection, the head of the UN m...
08 May, 2020, 01.01 PM IST
Islamic State runs hotels, bridal shops, malls to lure jihadi recruitsThe IS is running swanky five star hotels, bridal boutiques and shopping malls to entice foreign jihadi recruits via social media in the Ir...
19 Jul, 2015, 10.16 PM IST
- Officials: Quarter million people have fled Libya
So far refugee workers have not seen Libyans crossing the border to flee their homeland, U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards said.
11 Mar, 2011, 10.52 PM IST