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Migration

Baijayant Panda helps in bringing back mortal remains of Odia Youth from Saudi Arabia

Odisha News Insight Nov 19, 2018 0

ONI Bureau: "This is depressingly regular", tweets former BJD MP Baijayant Panda, who has been helping several stranded Odia youths return home or in bringing back the mortal remains of the deceased. The mortal remains of late…

News & Views

40,000 Border Residents in J&K migrate amid warlike situation

Odisha News Insight May 23, 2018 0

Over 40,000 border villagers were forced to migrate from their homes as the Pakistan Rangers continued targeting civilian and defence facilities in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts on Wednesday, police said. While some of the migrants…

World

New Zealand welcomes record 121,900 migrants in 2015

Odisha News Insight Feb 1, 2016 0

Wellington, Feb 1: New Zealand welcomed a record 121,900 migrants, mostly from Asia in 2015, the government statistics agency said on Monday. According to Statistics New Zealand, the country had a net gain - more arrivals than departures -…

Business

Migration, an engine of Economic Growth: World Bank

Odisha News Insight Oct 9, 2015

Lima, Oct 9: The World Bank, in its 2015/2016 Global Monitoring Report, has said migration is presently a permanent feature of the global economy and could be an engine of growth. In the report, the institution's President Jim Yong Kim on…

Events

Distress migration increases in Ganjam due to Climate Change

Odisha News Insight Apr 18, 2015 0

Ganjam traditionally sends half a million migrant labourers to Surat and Ahmedabad every year. Climate change has become a major concern for the communities in Ganjam. Frequent natural disaster like cyclone, flood, heavy rain, drought and…