Migrants

Sri Lankan Navy apprehended 51 individuals on July 3 who were trying to illegally migrate from Sri Lanka to Australia by sea. Due to the country's ongoing economic crisis, this was the fourth such instance in the previous week. On July 2, a team comprising the Navy, Sri Lanka Coast Guard, and police apprehended 24 people near Marawila on the western coast, all of them accused of illegally migrating to Australia.  

After being stranded in a tractor-trailer on a secluded back road in San Antonio, 46 people were found dead and sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children on June 27. This was the deadliest disaster involving migrants trafficked across the border from Mexico to the United States. According to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, the 46 people killed had “families who were likely trying to find a better life.” 

As many as 57 people are missing and presumed dead after a boat carrying African migrants capsized off Libya's coast on July 26, United States Migration official Safa Mhsehli confirmed. Almost 18 of the migrants were rescued and taken to the shore by fishermen and Libya's coastguard. At least 20 women and two children were among those who drowned. The boat left on July 25 with 75 people on board. 

Mexico's immigration officials have come across a truck previously crammed with 100 migrants trying to enter the US border on June 28. However, the authorities have discovered an abandoned 2-year-old kid along with a 25-year-old dead man and eight others. After the doors were opened, most of the migrants ran into the vegetation near the highway, said one of the survivors.

The Uttarakhand government has announced an initiative to develop around 100 villages at the India-China border for the betterment of the locals under International Border Development Programme. The state minister Subodh Uniyal said, "We are working to send a proposal to the Central government to develop these villages as Integrated Model Agriculture (IMA) villages." While affirming that the project will boost agriculture, Uniyal said the… read-more