From Sangat to syndicate: The dark underbelly of Sikh migration to Canada

Jan 08, 2024, at 09:33 pm

The most recent case of Raj Kumar Mehmi, a Sikh man from India, on the run for his involvement in a large-scale drug trafficking operation in Canada, highlights the increasing involvement of Sikhs in the Canadian drug trade.

32 Sri Lankans migrate every hour, claims National Movement for a Just Society Chairman

Sep 26, 2022, at 10:05 pm

Colombo/UNI: Thirty-two Sri Lankans go abroad every hour to escape the serious economic crisis that has gripped the country, Chairman of the National Movement for a Just Society Karu Jayasuriya said in his remarks published on Monday.

IIT Kharagpur study finds post- Harappan climate change Induced human migration in Thar desert

Nov 20, 2019, at 03:36 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have made a breakthrough discovery of tracing 3000 years old Iron Age remains, the earliest to be found in the presently arid Rann of Kutch and the Thar Desert.

271 million people moved out of poverty in India, says UNDP

Sep 21, 2018, at 08:49 am

New Delhi, Sept 21 (IBNS): India has made momentous progress in reducing multidimensional poverty, according to estimates from the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).