US President Joe Biden has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join him for the World Leaders Summit on Climate that he is virtually convening on April 22 and 23
From Remittances to Investments: Why Every State Should Build a Stronger Partnership with Overseas Indians
Overseas Indians possess both the financial capacity and the desire to invest, yet many promising projects are abandoned because of fragmented procedures, multiple government approvals and the absence of a single accountable institution to guide investors from concept to completion.
Bangladesh's Expatriate Card: A New Chapter in Migrant Financial Security
The Expatriate Card will be a source of recognition to millions of Bangladeshi remittance warriors and a sign of gratitude from the State for their support to the nation's development.
In Search of Dharma in the Indian Diaspora
We have become an aggressive and divisive society which is becoming intolerant of others' ideas and points of view. For a pluralistic society like India, all the people who live there are important and we need to work together to take the country forward and to great heights. Unless we change our present thinking, we have the danger of becoming an extremist state
Beyond the Remittance: How Bangladesh's Overseas Workers Are Reshaping Post-Uprising Politics
For decades, Bangladeshi governments referred to their overseas workers as remittance warriors—a formulation that was generous in one respect and quietly limiting in another. It honored their economic contribution while bracketing their political identity. The July Uprising may have ended that bracketing for good. What is now taking shape, imperfectly and without clear resolution, is a constituency that earns its living abroad but has not surrendered its stake in what Bangladesh becomes.
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