The state jobs agency UWV issued over 20,000 work permits to workers and work-experience students from outside the EU in 2024, a rise of 12% on the year before, figures from state jobs agency UWV show. More refugees were also working, with some 9,281 permits issued to asylum seekers without a residency permit – four times as many as in …
A sub-divisional officer in Jaipur, who is ostensibly vested with the responsibility of issuing transit permit for inter-state transport of bovines, denied having any such authority, giving a new twist to the controversy over recent lynching of a cattle farmer in Rajasthan. Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand Kataria after lynching of Pehlu Khan by self-styled cow vigilantes in Alwar on …
