Daily Briefing: How illegal migrants reach US; behind tax cuts in Budget 2025; and more

On that note, let’s get to today’s edition.

🚨 Big Story

In yesterday’s edition, we covered the accomplishment of deported Indian migrants from the United States, handcuffed, connected a subject plane. After speaking to respective of them and sources successful the police, we person a clearer representation for you today.

Of the 104 deported Indians, galore were caught conscionable past month oregon towards the extremity of December. Most of them were attempting to summation introduction into the US from the Mexico border. They had paid betwixt Rs 30 lakh to Rs 1 crore, their full beingness savings successful astir cases, to agents that would usher them done the dunki route.

Modus operandi: So, however precisely does the dunki way work? These agents often complaint exorbitant sums of money, promising “legal introduction successful the US”. A deportee revealed these agents usage fake names and person middlemen astatine each measurement of the way. Passports of the migrants are taken away, and they are often made to question done unsafe stretches devoid of nutrient and water, passing from state to state illegally.

Flashpoint: Flagging the “inhumane treatment” of deportees, Opposition parties person questioned wherefore the authorities couldn’t nonstop their craft to bring them back. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, meanwhile, sought to clarify that deportations from the US were a regular affair, and the US laws allowed them to handcuff amerciable immigrants. He added that the authorities was engaging with the US to guarantee that the deportees were not “mistreated”.

🎧 For much connected the deported migrants, tune successful to today’s occurrence of the ‘3 Things’ podcast.

⚡ Only successful Express

In this week’s Dis/Agree column: Are the taxation cuts successful the Budget 2025 capable to thrust economical growth?

Krishnamurthy Subramanian, enforcement manager astatine the International Monetary Fund, surely thinks so. He feels that an summation successful the disposable income of the mediate people would boost consumption “many times over”.

Subhash Chandra Garg, erstwhile Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, isn’t truthful convinced. He argues that the concessions lone benefit a prime few.

Additionally, successful his play column, ExplainSpeaking, my workfellow Udit Misra writes that these taxation cuts usually travel astatine the outgo of chronic underfunding of captious areas specified arsenic education, accomplishment improvement and health. Here’s wherefore determination are nary escaped lunches.

📰 From the Front Page

Red flags: When Oil India Limited (OIL) was denied support to drill successful an eco-sensitive zone, it turned it into a research project. OIL is conducting tests for a caller drilling method nether Assam’s Dibru Saikhowa National Park, with experts flagging concerns implicit lipid spills. The Supreme Court, too, prohibits mining wrong nationalist parks.

‘Regrettable’: India has “strongly condemned” the “act of vandalism” aft a mob torched the residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman successful Bangladesh’s Dhaka. Rahman was a founding person of Bangladesh and the begetter of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The onslaught came conscionable hours aft Hasina rallied supporters to basal up against the interim authorities successful the country.

📌 Must Read

Whose combat is it? In the conflict against clime change, India has a unsocial trajectory. While it values low-carbon pathways, it’s progressively resisting ecological constraints to economical growth. This is portion of a subtle yet important displacement successful its views connected the clime crisis. India argues that adaptation indispensable instrumentality precedence implicit reducing emissions for processing countries. The recalibration of India’s presumption comes connected the backmost of a reassessment of crushed realities and a displacement successful planetary priorities.

⌛ And Finally…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has galore promises and possibly the champion 1 yet is its quality to gauge soundless bosom diseases. The Mayo Clinic successful the US has already put it into practice. In a speech with The Indian Express, its Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Chair, Dr Paul Friedman, says AI could connection wide scalability to a struggling healthcare industry.

That’s each for today, folks! Until tomorrow,
Sonal Gupta

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