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.
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.
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
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.
India is situated in a tough neighbourhood and, as US envoy, he will work to achieve India's security as “few nations are more vital to the future of American security and prosperity than India,” Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden's nominee as the next ambassador to India said at his confirmation hearing
President Joe Biden’s nominee for US Ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome, said during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday that he will press Islamabad to target all terrorist organizations without differentiating between them
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to take up the long-delayed confirmation process for Eric Garcetti as the ambassador to India and Donald Armin Blome as the envoy to Pakistan on Tuesday
The United States has imposed sanctions on Bangladesh's elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and six of its current and former officers for alleged involvement in "grave human rights abuses"
The US Department of Labor has been asked to investigate claims that HCL America, a subsidiary of India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm generating 63% of its $11 billion in revenue in the United States, systematically violated the law by paying its H-1B workers much less than its US employees with similar skills and doing the same work
US officials have said that they will not punish any of the American troops or officials involved in the drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan in August earlier this year, the US media reported on Tuesday
US President Joe Biden has appointed Gautam Raghavan, an Indian American, as head of the White House personnel office
At least 110 stranded Indians and Afghan Sikhs and Hindus were flown to New Delhi from Kabul in a special flight chartered by the Indian government, said Puneet Singh Chandhok, President, Indian World Forum
To one of the questions from the audience: What is the best advice you have received so far in your professional life, Nooyi answered: "Put your hand up for the most difficult assignment because then you'll leave a mark and you'll be remembered."
In rare condolence to the military chief of another country, emblematic of the growing security partnership between the two nations, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin hailed General Bipin Rawat's role in the transformation of India's military and said he had left an “indelible mark” on their defence ties
Afghan refugees in Indonesia have sewn their lips shut in an attempt to draw UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) attention as the organisation has allegedly failed to address their problems and process their asylum-seeking cases
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed two agreements, regulating the process of recruitment and skill verification of the Pakistani workforce being employed in the kingdom
British-born, Sri Lankan Australian Shemara Wikramanayake has topped Australia’s highest-paid CEO list, the media reported
India's Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will be the chief guest at the next edition of the annual Global Healthcare Summit (GHS) 2022, organized by the Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), the powerful body representing nearly 100,000 physicians of Indian origin in the United States, to be held at Hotel Avasa in Hyderabad, India from January 5-7, 2022
With the alleged help of Rana, Headley got a business visa for India and conducted surveillance for the terror attacks that killed more than 174 people, including six Americans
