KOCHI: The six-storey Al-Mangaf building in the south of Kuwait City, which is under the lens after a devastating fire killed 49 persons, including over 40 from India, was home to migrant workers of various profiles, from engineers to accountants, and drivers to storekeepers. The fact is that there are labour camps of various types in the Gulf -- from …
The ‘settler’ component has come to be an important factor which could determine the representation in certain constituencies in peripheral parts of Hyderabad city, after formation of Telangana as a separate State. In the 2014 elections just before Telangana emerged as a separate state, TDP candidate Ryaga Krishnaiah won from the constituency, replacing sitting MLA D. Sudheer Reddy of the …
Even as residents in Imphal said the first batch of tribals stranded in the Valley had been sent back to Churachandpur and Kangpokpi, many more tribals, mostly Kukis, stranded in camps run by the Manipur government are desperately trying to move into the camps run by the Centre — either Army camps or those run by the Central Armed Police …