NRI hotel entrepreneur Sant Singh Chatwal, founder-president of the $750 million Manhattan-based Hampshire Hotels and Resorts, is all set to invest $100 million in India to develop five luxury 'boutique hotels' at prime locations.
The passengers-a 60-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman -- were off-loaded along with their checked-in baggage and later taken into custody by sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for allegedly possessing 3.73 kg of heroin, worth nearly Rs 4 crore in the international market, official sources said.
India Association chairman Balwant Singh Grewal, who is based in London, wants to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and cancer.
After a number of failed bids to hand over the management and running of West Bengal-owned Great Eastern Hotel, the state government on Friday received a positive response from an NRI businessman who offered to buy the ailing heritage concern.\n\n\n\n
After 'Selfie with Mufflerman' and a series of fund raising dinners across the globe, AAP has roped in its NRI supporters for the party's "tele-door-to-door" campaign to woo voters ahead of the Assembly polls.
Mahesh Goel, 41, a medical registrar who is currently in India, cut out the wrong kidney during an operation.
Electric vehicle (EV) sales in India topped the 1 million mark in less than nine months in 2023, a milestone that took an entire year in 2022. According to data from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways' Vahan Dashboard, 1,037,011 EVs were registered with regional transport offices till September 19, accounting for 6.4 per cent of the total automobile sales in the country this year. The sales surge can be attributed to increased individual purchases as well as business-to-business (B2B) acquisitions by EV fleet operators, industry sources said.
The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy has now been formerly moved in the House of Commons and will be meeting informally before the end of this month.
Had it not been for the slow but sure emergence of China as a threat to the western order, would India have been accepted as a near-equal partner by individual western nations, jointly and severally, questions N Sathiya Moorthy.
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An NRI doctor couple has been convicted of conspiring to commit health care fraud over a 10-year-period in Texas and will give up millions in assets.
Rich flow of funds has made Dharmaj one of the richest and most literate villages not only in the state but across the country
On Thursday, the clinic's board of governors decided not to renew Yadav's yearlong contract. Yadav is no longer at the hospital, the spokeswoman said.
He also said that the supporters of Talwalkar were harassing him and his family after he began questioning the irregularities. Several fabricated cases were also lodged against him, Trivedi alleged.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday said it has arrested Jaffer Sadiq, a Tamil Nadu-based alleged dealer of narcotics, in connection with an international drugs trafficking investigation case.
A British court on Friday found two Englishmen guilty of murdering an non resident Indian millionaire and his entire family in order to take over his freight company.
His elegant body of work, LIVE and recordings, is a tuneful treasure whose melody and memory lives on. Fondly remembering the late singer and 10 of his superhit songs.
Raw green chickpeas is nicest lightly boiled with chopped onion. But try this take.
Suella Braverman, an Indian-origin barrister, was appointed as the UK's new Home Secretary by Prime Minister Liz Truss earlier this week
The home ministry on Thursday announced the Padma awards which included five Padma Bhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri.
A Non-Resident Indian charitable body has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to tax income from NRI deposits saying such a move will be a big blow to the Indians in the Gulf, majority of whom are from low income groups.
The DMK also warned of legal action against those who attempt to link Sadiq with either the party or its leaders.
As many as 700 Indian students, mostly from Punjab, are facing deportation from Canada after the authorities in that country found "admission offer letters" to educational institutions to be fake.
The play-off between Prabhas and Prithviraj is the high-octane fuel that lends Salaar momentum, observes Mayur Sanap.
The father of 20-year-old NRI Anmol Sarna insisted on a CBI probe into his son's death, hinting at sexual assault on him by four friends on the fateful night and alleging a "cover up" by police in the case.
Authorities will allow the country's taxpayers to access the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) for cross-border disputes. This is even if they had settled the case under the direct tax dispute resolution scheme - Vivad se Vishwas - without deviating from the outcome of the scheme, said the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Monday. However, non-resident taxpayers, who opted for the resolution scheme, cannot go for MAP on the same issue, it clarified. MAP is an alternative dispute resolution mechanism under the tax treaties where competent authorities of two countries enter into discussions to resolve tax-related disputes.
Donning a flowing white chola' and a navy blue turban and often escorted by armed supporters, radical preacher and Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh has been quite active in Punjab for some time.
'Rahul Gandhi never gets firsthand information. He does not know what is good or bad going on in the party.'
Purchase of three plots of land in Haryana in 2005-06 by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra from a real estate agent is being probed along with a land deal made by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed in a recently filed money laundering case charge sheet.
Desai was charged with hiring a childhood friend to kill Leona to collect $1 million in life insurance.
In the verdict in the first case filed under the Information Technology Act in the country, Tamil Nadu IT secretary and adjudicator for the state, P W C Davidar on Monday directed ICICI Bank to pay Rs 12.85 lakh (Rs 1.285 million) as compensation to an NRI customer, who complained he lost money from his account due to phishing in 2007 in Chennai.
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The wife and brother-in-law of an NRI man, who had been found infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 here in Gujarat a week back, were also detected with the new strain, officials of the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation (JMC) said on Friday.
It's fashion flashback Friday. The actress takes you back to the 90s in her flared pants and K3G style salwar suits.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Brand India's societal divisions and distortions have remained as much relevant in 'liberal' America and Europe as it still is in the structurally stratified Indian society of the 21st century, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
She was trying to board a flight to London, sources said on Thursday.
Deriving from Narendra Modi's continuing charisma, the proposed scheme, if and when implemented, can cut both ways. That is to say, if Modi can win, he can lose. Or, someone else in his place, later on, could lose as much as he could win in his time, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
