Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on Congress leader Sam Pitroda over his “Indians in the South look like Africans’ remark and linked the analogy to Congress’s decision of fielding a candidate against Droupadi Murmu for the 2022 presidential election. PM Modi said he could tolerate abuses hurled at him but not against the people of the nation.

Congress on Wednesday debunked PM Modi’s charge that Rahul Gandhi has not been attacking Ambani and Adani during these elections because of a deal, circulating a video with snippets of Rahul’s speeches between May 2 and the one he delivered in Jharkhand on Tuesday, where he highlighted the PM’s “nexus” with Adani and Ambani.

India is the origin of the largest number of international migrants – nearly 18 million, with large diaspora in UAE, US and Saudi Arabia. And it continues its march as the top country receiving remittances from its diaspora: the figure crossed $110 billion in 2022. According to the World Migration Report, 2024, released in Dhaka on Wednesday by the UN’s International Organisation for Migration, India, Mexico and China were the top three remittance recipient countries in 2022, followed by the Philippines, France and Pakistan.