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Bangladeshis in India sent back $6.6 billion last year, 6% of their homeland’s GDP

  Bangladesh receives nearly half of its total remittances from India. Migrant workers from the impoverished South Asian country sent home $14 billion last year, according to the World Bank. Bangladeshi workers in India transferred more than $6.6 billion to their home country, making them the biggest source of remittances to Bangladesh. This is more than four times the money being sent from Saudi Arabia, the second-highest contributor. India is a preferred destination among Bangladeshi migrants because of the low cost of migration. “Migrants can avoid securing a plethora of documents including issuance of passports if they migrate to India,” says a study published by the  While there aren’t recent data available on the total number of Bangladeshis staying in India, we do know that nearly 500,000 visas were issued in 2012-13. Illegal immigration has become a hot-button issue in India. Prime minister Narendra Modi reiterated his strong stance against illegal immig...

Elections 2014 ends with a clear cut Verdict of voter's

335 / 0 NDA or BJP+ Top Parties Lead Won BJP 0 282 SS 0 19 TDP 0 15 SAD 0 4 LJP 0 6 AD 0 2 NPP 0 1 RLSP 0 3 HJC 0 1 NPF 0 1 SWP 0 2 59 / 0 UPA or CONG+ Top Parties Lead Won Cong 0 44 NCP 0 5 RJD 0 4 IUML 0 2 RLD 0 0 KECM 0 1 JKNC 0 0 JMM 0 2 BOPF 0 0 BVA 0 0 MHD 0 0 149 / 0 OTHERS Top Parties Lead Won ADMK 0 37 TMC 0 34 BJD 0 18 TRS 0 11 SP 0 5 CPM 0 8 YSRC 0 9 BSP 0 0 JDU 0 2 IND 0 1 AAP 0 4 source:http://www.indian-elections.com/ It's a Narendra Modi Tsunami! BJP-led NDA gets a massive mandate, Congress routed Priyarag Verma , IBNLive.com  | May 16, 2014 at 05:24pm IST In the most decisive verdict in the last 30 years, the saffron surge swamped its rivals across the country as the Bharatiya Janata Party on its own crossed the half-way mark of 272 seats in the Lok Sabha to give India its first single-party government since 1984. With its allies the BJP reached 335 seats to give the Na...

Poll violence in West Bengal claims 7 lives, 740 injured

Poll violence has so far claimed seven lives in West Bengal and left 740 persons injured in 825 incidents, Election Commission sources said. While one person lost his life in Nadia district late in the month of March, the second death took place at Jalangi in Murshidabad district in early April, followed by the third death in Birbhum and fourth death at Manikchak under Malda district also in the last month, OSD in CEO’s office, Amit Roy Chowdhury said here. Apart from these, two poll deaths had taken place in the State on April 26, the sources said adding Prahlad Roy of CPI(M) died in a clash at ghatal in West Midnapore, while Amitabha Panja of Trinamool Congress died in another clash at Hatgobindapur in Burdwan district. The seventh death was also reported from the West Midnapore district late last month when a CPI(M) supporter died in a clash in Keshpur area, Roy Chowdhury said. Over 35 persons were arrested in all these incidents of violence in different parts of the Sta...