While FY25 has been a success story, sustaining this trend won’t be easy. Bangladesh’s remittance economy relies heavily on labor migration to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. However, labor demand in host countries is changing due to automation, nationalization of jobs (Saudi Arabia’s Saudization policy), and shifting immigration laws. The future of low-skilled labor exports is uncertain
The question must be asked: has the Middle Eastern dream become an Indian nightmare? Migrant workers face compounding insecurities, with the confiscation of passports turning them into virtual hostages. Structural exploitation, poor working conditions, and the intensifying climate crisis disproportionately impact Indian migrants—many of whom are semi- or unskilled laborers from already vulnerable communities.
This was no mere diplomatic courtesy call. India’s renewed outreach must be seen through the lens of historical connection and future potential. Nearly 44 percent of Trinidad and Tobago’s Indian diaspora traces its origins to the indentured labour system—deep roots that have flourished into rich cultural traditions shared in cuisine, music, festivals, and faith.
The good news is our team of scientists and biomedical engineers at Columbia University has developed a stent, The Stentinel, that can continuously scan the bloodstream to find cancer’s first cells and the earliest biomarkers. And, the stent can be programmed to electrocute The First Cell. This approach will democratize medicine worldwide, shifting the healthcare paradigm from one of treating illness to one of maintaining wellness
A bipartisan bill for setting up duty-free export zones along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border will be introduced in the US Senate soon, according to a senior US lawmaker who also urged President Joe Biden to resume the US-Pakistan dialogue by calling Prime Minister Imran Khan
Daniel Smith, a former US acting secretary of state, has been appointed as the head of US embassy in New Delhi, which has been without an ambassador after Kenneth Juster left the post in January, according to State Department Spokesperson Ned Price
The US is imposing restrictions on travel from India starting on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris has said
The US has expressed concern over attacks targeted at the media and threats and harassment of journalists in Pakistan by security forces, political parties and militants
Slamming Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, the European parliament has alleged that they “incite harassment, violence and murder against those being accused’, and expressed concern about the health and wellbeing of a Pakistani couple sentenced to death on blasphemy charges in 2014
Sewa International USA, a Houston, Texas-based nonprofit that works in the areas of disaster recovery, education, and development has launched a ‘Help India Defeat COVID-19’ campaign to ship oxygen concentrators to Indian hospitals
Aftab Pureval, the son of Indian and Tibetan immigrants, is running for election as mayor of Cincinnati in the US and, if successful, will be the first mayor of South Asian descent in Ohio
The European Parliament has expressed concern over the “deteriorating” human rights situation in India and voiced alarm regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by its parliament last year
The US opposes incitement to violence on social media while supporting freedom of expression, according to State Department Spokesperson Ned Price
The US State Department has denied it has issued new guidance to American citizens in India to leave the country
The US has asked its citizens not to visit India in wake of the huge surge in COVID cases in the country and also because "access to all types of medical care is becoming severely limited in India due to the surge in COVID-19 cases"
Various facets of Artificial Intelligence, including its policy impact at the world stage and the challenges in the adoption of ethical AI were discussed threadbare at a summit organised by the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI)
The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), the largest ethnic medical organization in the US with over 80,000 members, has reached out to Covid-battered India by arranging oxygen concentrators, facilitating tele-consultations and giving a call for generous donations
Congressman Ami Bera, Democrat from California and a physician by training, said he will work to ensure assistance to India to fight the covid disaster
The Indian High Commission in Australia has strongly rebutted a report published in The Australian, a leading newspaper, on Sunday as "baseless, malicious and slanderous" and slammed the newspaper's "rush to blame the surge on the restricted election campaign by the Prime Minister of India and one religious gathering"
