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Can the UAE be an alternative education destination for Indian students?
UAE possesses specific advantages from an academic standpoint. It hosts branch campuses of several dozen top universities: New York University, for example, has its Abu Dhabi campus as a full-service liberal-arts university. France's Sorbonne University has a branch in Abu Dhabi. Britain's Heriot-Watt, University of Birmingham, Middlesex, and other Western universities have similarly invested heavily in UAE campuses.
A South Asia arts focused success story in Seattle: Challenging misconceptions and stereotypes about South Asia
Barely twenty years later, in 2023, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially accepted Tasveeri as an Oscar-qualifying film festival. It is so far the only South Asian film festival to be officially recognized as such. This means that Tasveer film festival winners become eligible for submissions to the Oscars.
Japan to Recruit One Lakh Bangladeshi Workers: An Opportunity or a Risk?
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Bangladesh's Record Remittance Flow: But Remittance Architecture Needs To Be Secure And Future-Ready
While FY25 has been a success story, sustaining this trend won’t be easy. Bangladesh’s remittance economy relies heavily on labor migration to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. However, labor demand in host countries is changing due to automation, nationalization of jobs (Saudi Arabia’s Saudization policy), and shifting immigration laws. The future of low-skilled labor exports is uncertain
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People of Indian origin are excelling in engineering in companies all around the USA and have broken the glass ceiling multiple times and very successfully, said Dr. Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor at University of California San Diego at an event organized by the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI)
Indian-American cabinet nominee apologises for tweets about Republicans, recalls difficult childhood
When she came up before a Senate panel, Neera Tanden, the Indian-American nominee to US President Joe Biden's cabinet, apologised to Republican senators for insulting them with venomous tweets
A 233-year-old impeachment of Bengal governor-general figures in Trump trial!
Warren Hastings, the 18th-century British governor-general of Bengal, figured intriguingly in the US Senate trial when the prosecutors cited his impeachment by the British House of Commons after he had left his Indian position as a precedent for trying Donald Trump who is no longer the president
At least 11 Nepalis still missing in Sunday’s Uttarakhand glacial avalanche
Eleven Nepalis are still missing in the floods caused by a glacial avalanche in the Uttarakhand state of northern India on Sunday
Award-winning NRI helps uplift tribal hamlet in south India
India awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman - its highest honour to non-resident Indians - to Government College of Engineering alumnus KG Baburajan for uplifting a tribal hamlet at Rajapalayam in Tamil Nadu
Biden cancels Trump's nomination of Indian American as judge
US President Joe Biden has cancelled the nomination of Vijay Shanker to be a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington
Indian boy becomes UAE's youngest hair donor for cancer patients
A two-year-old Indian boy has become the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) youngest hair donor for cancer patients, according to local media
Over 7,000 Indians jailed in foreign countries: Government
The Central government has informed the Rajya Sabha about the number of Indian citizens jailed in foreign countries for various criminal offences
Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia harassed
Brac Migration Programme has described the allegation of a policeman forcing a returning Bangladeshi worker to pay bribe even though he had valid travel papers as "nothing new"
World needs paradigm shift in economic thinking for sustainable development, says landmark review by Indian-British economist
The world needs an urgent and radical change to the way economies operate to save nature and to avoid a catastrophic breakdown, a first-of-its-kind landmark review of biodiversity by an Indian-British economist has concluded
NYC's Indian-American Health Commissioner tests Covid positive
Dave Chokshi, the Indian-American Health Commissioner of New York City, said that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and warned that the disease "continues to circulate in our communities, and all of us are potentially exposed to the virus"
Indo-English cricketer Monty Panesar invites Rihanna to talk on Indian farmers' protest
Former England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar, who is of Indian origin and who played a key role in helping England beat hosts India in 2012-13 series, has invited pop star Rihanna to talk on the ongoing farmers' agitation in India after the Barbadian tweeted support for it
NASA appoints Indian-American as acting chief of staff
NASA has named Indian-American Bhavya Lal, who oversaw the agency's transition under the administration of US President Joe Biden, as the space agency's acting chief of staff
First Bangladeshi-American Lt Commander in NYPD
Bangladesh-origin American Shamsul Haque has been promoted to the rank of Lt Commander in the Detective Squad of New York Police Department (NYPD), a first for any Bangladeshi in the NYPD
