Migrant Goat

IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.

Chennai: G Nanaprakasham Rajamarian was short on cash. Two years into his job at a construction site in Saudi Arabia, his sponsor demanded money to renew his work permit or to get back his passport to return home. But Mr Rajamarian, who had left his home in the coastal district of Kanyakumari in 1994, didn’t have the money to buy his freedom. Mor...

Eighteen migrants, among them at least seven children, drowned Wednesday when their boats sank off Turkey's Aegean coast while trying to make the short but perilous crossing to Greece, the latest fatalities in Europe's refugee crisis.

IndiGo, India's biggest airline, has agreed to help a migrant laborer and two others fly home from Mumbai after an earlier flight he paid for by selling family livestock was canceled.

Chennai: G Nanaprakasham Rajamarian was short on cash. Two years into his job at a construction site in Saudi Arabia, his sponsor demanded money to renew his work permit or to get back his passport to return home. But Mr Rajamarian, who had left his home in the coastal district of Kanyakumari in 1994, didn’t have the money to buy his freedom. Mor...

Eighteen migrants, among them at least seven children, drowned Wednesday when their boats sank off Turkey's Aegean coast while trying to make the short but perilous crossing to Greece, the latest fatalities in Europe's refugee crisis.