A five-year-old Dubai-based Indian boy has set a new record for being able to read 20 books in an hour, the media reported on Thursday
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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Indian-origin doctor kills fellow doctor, self in US
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Biden appoints two Indian Americans to leadership posts at US mission to UN
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Indian American doctor sets up Pind California for farm protesters
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Pakistani-origin woman to become first federal Muslim woman attorney in US
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NAC brings bodies of 18 Nepalis from Malaysia
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Dubai-based Indian boy makes special portrait of Modi
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Nepali women migrants repatriated from Beirut
Ten undocumented Nepali women migrant workers stranded in Lebanon for several months made it home on Thursday
