A United States-based Non-Resident Indian has been booked for allegedly posting a morphed picture of Goa's PWD Minister Sudin Dhavalikar in a bikini on social networking site Facebook.
The aid will directly benefit 25,000 people from some of the worst hit areas of the state, adding a humanitarian expert from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Operations has also been deployed to assess the situation in the state.
Court order follows submission of govt lawyers that Serious Fraud Investigation Office was probing a case of misappropriation of fund by Jet Airways and Goyal.
The government has decided to do away with the various classifications of foreign investments for the purpose of calculating foreign investment in downstream companies.
At present, the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, covers only resident Indians. The Finance Bill has expanded the definition of assessees to include NRIs.
Traders said the rupee was also supported by speculation that May wholesale inflation due this week may show continued easing.
GSR 592(E) states that all NRIs -- including PIO like your son -- are not eligible to open PPF accounts. The accounts opened prior to all these dates are allowed to run up to their maturity but no extension or renewal can be made.
C K Prahalad, has been voted as the most influential living management thinker for the second time in a row.
The Bengaluru police are investigating the alleged threat call made to spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar's Art of Living organisation three days ago.Recently, the AoL lodged a complaint alleging that someone had demanded Rs 42 crore from the organisation and threatened to tarnish its reputation if it failed to pay the amount.A day later, non-resident Indian Paul P alleged that AoL grabbed 15 acres of land on Kanakapura Road near Bengaluru where the AoL ashram is situated.
The allegation comes a day after AoL stated it had received extortion calls demanding Rs 42 crore, failing which the institution would be defamed.
A full rollout of the products will be completed by March 2011 and the UK branch of SBI will be adding three branches over the existing seven to push its retail agenda. With this, SBI will take on local heavyweights in the mortgage segment such as HSBC, Barclays, NatWest, Lloyds and RBS.
'On the face of it, it is a WYSIWYG -- What You See Is What You Get -- reality series, but actually it is a show that perpetuates societal biases, stokes typecasts and stays sadly superficial,' notes ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
If the life assured is an Indian national or a person of Indian origin temporarily residing in the country of his present residence, he can get insurance. Even green card holders and foreign nationals of Indian origin can get life insurance in India.
Breaking more walls for non-resident Indians, Minister for Overseas Affairs announced that Indians abroad could take active part in the development process of the country.
Banking laws for NRIs allow for the following deposit schemes, or simply put, accounts with authorized dealers -- banks and financial institutions authorized by Reserve Bank of India to deal in foreign exchange -- to be maintained in Indian rupees and in foreign currency.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati are among the four Indians named in the Financial Times list of '50 People Who Shaped the Decade.'
The proposed takeover of Cairn Energy's India business could see Non-Resident Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal emerging as the richest promoter of a corporate house in India ahead of Mukesh Ambani, who has ruled the list for long.
Non-resident Indian businessman C Sivasankaran's Sterling Infotech group is in talks with the Seychelles government to lease an island for 99 years, on which it plans to build an integrated mega township and tourism project.
...Is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The move, he said, would enable the Authority for Advance Rulings set up under the Income Tax Act 1961 to also function as the Authority for Advance Rulings for Indirect Taxes. The AAR was established to address the taxability issues of NRI assessees. The assessees can put in an application to the authority and seek judgement on their tax issues.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar speaks about the land-grabbing allegations, the Swami Nityananda sex scandal and his interaction with Naxal leaders.
But the question the Indian taxpayer is now asking is, who should pay for all this? The Indian government, using the taxpayers' money? The Indians who went there to make money, and have surely made enough of it to spend on securing their future? Or even the companies that sent Indians there to work on projects?
Because of a new notification, any retirement planning done by non-resident Indians through PPF will go for a toss, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh.
A longstanding demand for voting rights in India by millions of Non Resident Indians may finally see the light of the day with a group of ministers clearing a draft bill on the issue, paving way for its consideration by the Union cabinet.
It is necessary to get the same probated in India also.
Non-Resident Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal has said he does not want a cricket team in the Indian Premier League, and was "glad" for not having bought one already, given the recent controversy shrouding the twenty-twenty format of the game.
Leading non-resident Indian entrepreneur Maneck Dalal, who has played a major role in promoting Indian art and culture in the UK, has been awarded the Asian Leadership Award for his contribution towards heritage.
Even as global investors were pulling out their money from India, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) deposited $1 billion in bank deposits (net of withdrawals) during the three month period of October-December 2008. There was a net outflow of $0.9 billion in the same period a year ago, according to the Economic Survey.
Amrita Chowdhury, Newly Returned Indian, discusses her debut novel, .
Gold only beats inflation. It fares poorly when compared to real estate or shares when compared on the basis of real inflation adjusted returns. Any serious investor, however, is advised to have a certain percentage of investment in gold to hedge inflation.
After the Satyam scam, the role of chartered accountants has come into focus again. This time the Income Tax Department has found that CAs have given false certificates, enabling Non-Resident Indians and foreign nationals to evade taxes in India.
In a pre-Budget memorandum to finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, the IndusInd International Federation said selective benefits may be offered to NRIs enabling them to make India the hub for their global activities.
Welcome to the world of Desi Adda, Sony India's latest brainchild to attract gamers with six made-in-India games.
India has got the second set of Swiss bank account details of its nationals and entities under the automatic exchange of information pact with Switzerland, marking a key milestone in the government's fight against black money allegedly stashed abroad.
After foreign institutional investors lapped up realty stocks in the recently concluded equity placements by property majors, India-focused private equity players and Non-Resident Indians are loosening their purse strings in the real estate space.
In a controversial turn to the election to a top Commonwealth parliamentary post involving high-profile Labour peer Swraj Paul and a Malaysian minister, the British delegation on Thursday alleged that India and the host country were involved in "shocking deals".
However, being Indians we still feel the need to stay connected to the place of our birth and therefore, we try to make investments in India through different avenues. Let's take a look at how Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) can make investments in India.
Good days never come. The slogan of achhe din is a bone stuck in the throat for the National Democratic Alliance government, Gadkari said.
Rashmi Sinha, Indian-born CEO of American company SlideShare, has been named by Playboy magazine as one of America's '10 Sexiest CEOs'.
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