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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace February 09, 2021 Source: Getty Summary:  Indian Americans are now the second-largest immigrant group in the United States. Their growing political influence and the role the diaspora plays in Indian foreign policy therefore raises important questions—about how Indian Americans view India, the political changes underway there, and the course of U.S.-India relations. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank yo...

UNITED NATIONS – India has the worlds largest diaspora with about 18 million people born there now living abroad, according to John Wilmoth, director of the UNs Population Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Presenting the International Migration Report 2020 Jan. 15, he said that the U.S. was the top host country for migrants with 51 million of them, or 18 percent of the worlds total, living there. The report said that between 2000 and 2020, the size of the migrant p...

In saga of immigration, Indians travel from exclusion to Vice Presidency ​ By Arul Louis ( IANS) | Published on ​ Tue, Jan 19 2021 12:21 IST | ​ 0 Views In saga of immigration, Indians travel from exclusion to Vice Presidency. Image Source: IANS News New York, Jan 19 : The first Indian recorded to have reached the shores of the US is a man from Madras (now Chennai), the area from where the family of Shyamala Gopalan, mother of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, hails. From the time o...

NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar. File   | Photo Credit: PTI Rajiv Kumar was dismayed by the dishonesty of some Indian economists, including former chief economic adviser Kaushik Basu who used to support farm reforms, for switching sides and talking in different languages now False narratives about the new farm laws are doing significant harm to the interests of farmers as well as the economy in general, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Monday and expressed his disappointment...

Updated Dec 28, 2020 | 17:07 IST As farmers continue their protests demanding repealing of the three new laws, Kumar also emphasised that continued negotiations with protesting farmers is of course the way forward. Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspPTI New Delhi: False narratives about the new farm laws are doing significant harm to the interest of farmers as well as the economy in general, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Mon...

False narratives about new farm laws hurting farmers interests: Rajiv Kumar SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 28, 2020, 05:31 PM IST Share Synopsis As farmers continue their protests demanding repealing of the three new laws, Kumar also emphasised that continued negotiations with protesting farmers is of course the way forward. Kumar emphasised that continued negotiations with protesting farmers is of course the way forward. False narratives about the new farm laws are doing significant harm to the ...

False narratives around farm laws hurting farmers interests, economy: Rajiv Kumar As farmers continue their protests demanding repealing of the three new laws, Kumar also emphasised that continued negotiations with protesting farmers is of course the way forward PTI | December 28, 2020 | Updated 19:46 IST Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar False narratives about the new farm laws are doing significant harm to the interest of farmers as well as the economy in general, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman...

Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Kaushik Basu, one of India’s top economists, has been critical of the three new farm laws passed by the Modi government, calling them “flawed” and “detrimental to farmers”. But turns out, Basu, as India’s Chief Economic Advisor in the UPA government, had favoured similar if not the same reforms. Over the last few days, Basu has trashed the reforms on Twitter and also in a newspaper article. “Our agriculture regulation needs change but...

NEW DELHI: On a day the Supreme Court stepped in to help resolve the stand-off over the new farm laws, the government doubled down on its outreach to protesters, with agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar seeking to demolish the “wall of lies erected by vested political interests” to mislead farmers about the provisions of the trio of farm enactments. In an 8-page letter which was flagged by PM Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, the minister seemed to target Congress, Left-alig...

Farm Follies: ‘Yes, But’ Economists Like Kaushik Basu Are Allowing Politics To Infect Their Critiques by R Jagannathan - Dec 18, 2020 09:22 AM Kaushik Basu and Nirvikar Singh Snapshot Kaushik Basu supports the idea of reform but not this specific one, and none of his criticisms is more than partially valid, and some are outright wrong. Here’s why. There are simply too many yes-but economists trying to make the ideal the enemy of the good when it comes to the Narendra Modi gov...