Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers.

BJP units in Haryana, Delhi and other states are compiling data on “pravasi” (migrant) Biharis, including the number of family members registered as voters in Bihar, their Assembly constituencies and polling booths.

The Trump administration is launching a new visa program for migrant workers as farmers and hotel owners express concerns that their labor force is being threatened by the president’s mass deportation raids.

Under pressure from worried farmers and hotel owners, the Trump administration is launching a program to streamline issuing visas for temporary, migrant workers to try to make sure fruits get picked,

Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense.

As the Trump administration has doubled down on its hardline immigration agenda, behind the scenes senior Trump officials and the president himself have grappled with the consequences of that crackdown against a key portion of the workforce: migrant workers.

A drunk driver of an Audi car allegedly ran over five people, including two couples and an eight-year-old girl, injuring them while they were sleeping on a footpath near Shiva Camp in southwest Delhi's Vasant Vihar area,

Rollins said more announcements would come soon from the Department of Labor regarding the U.S. temporary worker visa program.

For Suraj, Arun Mandal and Chander, who belong to different districts in Bihar, the two months of June and July are the “best” as far as good returns are concerned. Hundreds of workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar come during these two months to sow paddy here in Punjab.

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Kolkata: Bengal police have carried out around 750 verifications in one and a half months for migrant workers from the state detained across the count.