Bangladesh-origin American Sazedur Rahman has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the New York Police Department (NYPD)
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.
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.
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.
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
Bangladesh-origin American Sazedur Rahman has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the New York Police Department (NYPD)
Nepali migrant workers going to Saudi Arabia will benefit from the recent move by Saudi authorities where they would be checked for their skills upon their arrival in the kingdom, experts said
More than 5,000 Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) nationals, who have been left stranded abroad due to the closure of borders since March 22, 2020, due to COVID-19 are facing extremely tough times – some have even been forced to live on the streets braving hunger, extreme weather, and even fear of being killed
With the objective of providing a platform for the Indian diaspora youth, GOPIO International organized a virtual session on “India’s Outreach to Diaspora-Youth Perspective” on Sunday, March 7th, 2021
A Bangladeshi student, studying in Istanbul under a Turkey government scholarship, has turned into an entrepreneur on by opening a restaurant
India's ruling BJP MP Ashwani Vaishnav on Monday raised the issue of racial discrimination in the UK -- the latest being an incident at Oxford University
A 33- year-old Sri Lankan woman, who had been in the Japanese Immigration detention Centre for seven months, has died, The Daily Mirror reported
Indian-Canadian comedian Lily Singh took the ongoing farmers protests to the red carpet of the 63rd Grammy Awards here
An Indian-American community-led fundraising effort, the 'HungerMitao' movement, has served 10 million meals for the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB), in just over three years since its inception, a media report said
US Vice President Kamala Harris will also be participating in the first Quad summit with President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers Narendra Modi of India, Scott Morrison of Australia and Yoshihide Suga of Japan on Friday, according to the White House
US President Joe Biden's spokesperson has defended his assertion that Indian Americans are “taking over the country” against criticism that it could play into the hands of racists
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he would look into the case of an 83-year-old Catholic priest Stan Swamy held in India on charges he was associated with “unlawful activities”
Professor Dr. Shiv Pande, an Indian doctor who was previously made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the UK's honors list, has become the first Asian to be made a 'Citizen of Honour' by the northwest English city of Liverpool
In a bid to support economic empowerment of women in India, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday announced $25 million in grants to non-profits and social enterprises in India and around the world
A day after President Joe Biden joked that Indian-Americans were taking over the US, he appointed two of them as special assistants advising him on domestic policy