GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma announced Friday that only deputy commissioners were authorised to clear Aadhaar applications of adults as part of tighter checks to filter illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, marking a departure from the practice elsewhere of UIDAI-run seva kendras processing them.“Tightening of rules for issuance of Aadhaar to adults will make it…
Florida has begun the construction of a temporary migrant detention facility, dubbed the “Alligator Alcatraz”, to hold illegal migrants on an airstrip in the Everglades wetland area of the state. The facility is surrounded by alligators, crocodiles, and pythons. The project is part of the Donald Trump administration’s broad push to expand detention facilities amid…
NEW DELHI: India has identified 388 illegal Indian immigrants in the US since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation campaign and all of them have returned to their home country, TOI has learnt. These include the plane-loads of illegals who landed in Amritsar and those who returned from third countries, mostly Panama, with help…
AHMEDABAD: Jhulasan in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar had an unlikely lift-off to fame two decades ago when it emerged as the village to which Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams traces her roots. The comfort of obscurity is what its 5,000-odd residents might now prefer as spotlight shifts to around two dozen men from the village, all illegal immigrants…