A US military aircraft landed at Amritsar airport on Saturday night, carrying 116 Indian migrants who had been deported from the United States. Among them was Daljit Singh, who had left his village in Punjab last year with hopes of a better future. Instead, he returned in shackles, his hands cuffed and legs chained throughout…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday briefed Rajya Sabha on the deportation of illegal Indian immigrants by the Donald Trump-led US government and said it was the “obligation to take back illegal immigrants”. On the “handcuff” row, the minister said that the “standard operating procedure…
Arvind Kejriwal and Sambit Patra (File photo) NEW DELHI: BJP MP Sambit Patra on Monday cited a research report by Jawaharlal Nehru University, claiming that illegal migration from Bangladesh and Myanmar has led to a significant rise in Delhi’s Muslim population. He alleged that “political patronage”, particularly from the Aam Aadmi Party, has enabled this…
NEW DELHI: Amid concerns raised by the US over irregular migration, India reiterated Friday that it would, as in the past, accept illegal migrants sent back from the US only after verifying their Indian origin and that any talk about the number of such undocumented people it was willing to take back was “premature”.The remarks…
NEW DELHI: The UK Parliament has recently approved a controversial bill that allows the government to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda for their asylum claims to be assessed in the East African nation, as per a report by CNN. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced opposition in Parliament and legal challenges in British courts while…
