US President Joe Biden's spokesperson has expressed concern over the destruction of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in California and condemned it
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?
Ultimately, the recruitment of 100,000 workers presents both opportunities and challenges for Bangladesh. If Bangladeshis can understand Japanese work culture, then it's truly a blessing; however, misunderstanding or violating it poses a risk to the hard-earned trust that has been established between the two Asian countries.
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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Canadian Sikh MP Ramesh Sangha out of PM Trudeau's party
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Huge relief for spouses of H1B workers in US, Biden nixes Trump plan to kill H4 work permits
"Withdrawn". A single word on a thick bureaucratic file on the seventh day of the Biden administration delivered a huge win for spouses of workers on H1B visas in the US who spent the last four years worried sick that their work authorisations would be killed off
