NRI demand would help offset the liquidity problem, which is presently affecting realty sales.
Sipra complained about the "highhandedness" of Indian officials and the Assamese government in dealing with the case.
The Bush administration will have an Indian-origin to advice the President as White House announcing its intension to nominate Santanu K Baruah as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
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.
ICICI Bank has raised its interest rates on non-resident external rupee savings account, NRE fixed deposits and foreign currency non-resident deposits.
Merrill Lynch financial advisor Raj Sharma has been named one of America's 100 Top Brokers by the Barron's magazine.
The police said the suspects were three boys and a girl, all 17, and a 15-year-old boy, all from Birmingham.
With real estate -- NRIs's favourite investment vehicle in the past -- unlikely to do well in the near future, there is a strong case for NRIs to shift to equity and debt mutual funds, says Prateek Mehta.
Blaming anti-social elements for the attacks on Indian students in Australia, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi today said Canberra was taking strict action to prevent such incidents after the Centre's intervention.
Sukanya Verma looks at the variety of daughter characters served by Bollywood on the big screen.
They include a woman who came from Nigeria along with her two daughters to meet her brother in adjoining Pimpri Chinchwad area, the official said.
ICICI Bank has revised interest rates on non-resident external savings account and NRE fixed deposit by 0.61 per cent and 0.47 per cent respectively across various maturities.
Citigroup's Vikram Pandit may have been named among worst CEOs ever in America, but in terms of financial performance for the first quarter of this year, the banking behemoth has emerged as one of the best performers among the US companies run by persons of Indian origin.
Becks Krishnan was saved by prominent NRI businessman and philanthropist M A Yusuffali who helped to pay his "blood money" amounting nearly Rs 1 crore.
The Reserve Bank on Thursday eased foreign direct investment (FDI) norms and allowed banks to provide guarantees on behalf of NRIs to acquire shares and debentures in Indian companies.
Gayathri spelt words diverse and difficult words like apocalypse, mezzanine, troglodyte, claustrophobia, geisha and resuscitate to become Britain's best young speller.
The banks offer FCNR deposits in six currencies -- US dollar, euro, pound sterling, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar and Japanese yen. In the FCNR deposit category, SBI has raised rates by 12-21 basis points on US dollar deposits across various maturities. The new rate for the one and less than two years category is 3.12 per cent (2.98 per cent). Five-year FCNR (B) deposits carry a higher rate across various maturities at 3.66 per cent as against 3.45 per cent earlier.
An Indian man in the US allegedly married his sister while his wife married his brother as part of a "phoney wedding' scheme so that the man's siblings could evade immigration waiting periods.
Pratip Chaudhuri said such bonds might expose issuing entities (banks) to class action suits in the US for making an offer to a specific ethnic group in that country.
After a lifetime of showing us what it means to 'act at the top of one's bent and never hit a false note', Mammootty had the good sense, in the third act of his career, to pare down his style, become less mannered, draw directly from life. And getting a performer like that to play characters who seem 'completely dead inside', is, in my view, a betrayal of his legacy, his still-burning ambition, and his still-sharp feelers, observes Sreehari Nair.
Dr Pradeep Datta, based in Wick, Scotland started his career in the National Health Service in 1967. Many surgeons in the NHS and elsewhere owe their careers to the specialised training imparted by Datta. Datta established and funded a teaching programme to ease the difficulty, which many overseas doctors found in getting a place on a course that would help them pass the FRCS exam and its successor, the MRCS.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday allocated portfolios to the new ministers, keeping 14 departments with himself and giving home affairs to deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and health to other deputy O P Soni.
Joseph 'Sanish' Pallipurath was arrested around late Monday night in Monroe, east of Atlanta, after New Jersey police had sounded a country wide alert for him, the district US Marshal James Plousis said.
Indian-origin British entrepreneurs are more successful in securing credit and finance due to their higher credibility rating compared the other businessmen, latest industry research shows.
Close on the heels of winning the prestigious accolade of 'Best UK Restaurant' for his Southall restaurant, Madhu's, its owner Sanjay Anand has been declared 'Industry Personality of the Year'.
The currency market won't care for our moans, groans, cries and sighs. The rupee will find its own level, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Dr Kalidas Shetty from the University of Massachusetts is among US State Department's first five Jefferson Science Fellows.
