US President-elect Joe Biden has named Aisha Shah, a former staffer in his campaign, as the partnerships manager for his White House Office of Digital Strategy
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.
US Immigration Policy Change Could Adversely Affect Indians, South Asians Seeking Employment-Based Green Cards
The policy could have particularly significant consequences for employment-based Green Card applicants, many of whom have traditionally relied on adjustment of status (AOS) while continuing to live and work legally in the U.S. There is a large number of Indian immigrants who stand to face significant disruption and delay because of this policy shift.
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Indian Consul General in Dubai to host breakfast for expats
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Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora groups condemn mandatory cremation of COVID-19 victims
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US NBA gets its first full-time Indian-origin referee
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UK Sikh MP asks PM Johnson to clarify stand on farmers' stir
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Pakistani national beaten to death in Germany
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British man of Pakistani origin appointed to UK's House of Lords
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Two more Indian Americans in Biden team: Gautam Raghavan, Vinay Reddy
US president-elect Joe Biden has named two more Indian Americans to plum appointments in the post-Trump world: Gautam Raghavan is coming in as Deputy Director in the Office of Presidential Personnel and Vinay Reddy will be the Director of Speechwriting, according to a statement on Tuesday from the transition team
Prominent Pakistani dissident found dead in Canada
A prominent Baloch activist, Karima Baloch, who took on the Pakistan Army over human rights abuses in Balochistan, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in Canada
Bangladeshi-US astrophysicist Tonima among 2020 Science News' 10 Scientists to Watch
Science News has unveiled its 2020 SN 10 Scientists to Watch, with Bangladeshi American Tonima Tasnim Ananna among those profiled
Biden names Indian American as deputy director of Economic Council
US President-Elect Joe Biden named on Monday Bharat Ramamurti to be a deputy director of the National Economic Council with an important role in carrying out his campaign promises of banking and consumer reforms
Unemployed Dubai-based Indian wins $1mn in raffle
An unemployed Indian expat from Kerala, who lost his job in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, won $1 million at the Dubai Duty-Free (DDF) Millennium Millionaire Draw, a media report said
