www.theasianstar.com VOL 23 - ISSUE 15
Canada welcomes criminals, says India’s foreign minister S. Jaishankar India’s Foreign Affairs Minister accused Canada of welcoming criminals from his country in response to the RCMP’s recent arrests in a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar also called Ottawa the No. 1 driver of what he described as a violent movement of Sikhs trying to carve their own country out of India. Read more on Page 14...
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India is first country to get over $100 billion in remittances, says United Nations India received over $111 billion in remittances in 2022, which was the largest in the world, according to the latest report from the UN International Organisation for Migration. The report noted that migrant workers who were sending these huge sums were vulnerable to financial exploitation, workplace abuse, unsafe working environment and xenophobia. India-UAE, India-US, India-Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh-India were among the top 10 international country-tocountry migration corridors, the report said. The leading country for outbound migration, India was the 13th as the destination country for immigrants (44.8 lakh).
The final figures confirm the World Bank’s prediction made in December 2022 that India will be the first country in the world to receive $100 billion from remittances. Though remittances to the rest of the South Asian countries declined by 10 per cent, they rose by 12 per cent in India’s case, it had said. Speaking a few weeks later, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had welcomed the prognosis. “India was well above the rest, receiving more than $111 billion. Mexico was the second-largest remittance recipient in 2022, a position it also held in 2021 after overtaking China, which historically had been the second-biggest recipient after India,” said the World Migration Report.
Indian woman throws 6-year-old son to crocodiles after fight with husband
Punjabi student responsible for head-on crash that killed Indian couple & grandson
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A mother and father face murder charges after the woman allegedly threw her eldest son to his death in a crocodile-infested canal in India, according to media reports. Savitri Kumar and husband Ravi Kumar, who lived in Halamadi village in Karnataka state, were arrested after authorities recovered the partially eaten body of the six-year-old boy, according to police reports obtained by the Times of India. The boy, identified as Vinod, was born deaf and mute and the couple reportedly often fought about the child’s condition, local outlets reported. Ravi allegedly blamed his wife for their child having disabilities, leading to Savitri taking the boy to the canal, which connects to the crocodile-infested Kali river, police said.
A 21-year-old robbery suspect, who was killed in a head-on crash in Canada that also claimed the lives of an Indian couple and their three-month-old grandson, as he fled from police speeding the wrong way was facing charges for two other liquor store robberies, according to media reports. The crash killed Manivannan Srinivasapillai, 60, Mahalakshmi Ananthakrishnan, 55, from Chennai and their three-month-old grandson, Aditya Vivaan. The boy’s parents -- Gokulnath Manivannan and Ashwitha Jawahar -- survived the crash. The collision took place on April 29 after a police chase that began with the alleged liquor store robbery in Bowmanville, Ontario, in the regional municipality of Clarington. Read more on Page 14...