Hinduja Group Chairman S P Hinduja on Saturday hailed the Modi government's Budget as "socially inclusive" that lays a clear roadmap for placing India on double digit growth trajectory in the medium term.
Supporters of the proposal voiced their grievances at the gathering on how their properties were allegedly taken over by government, mafia and illegal occupants.
A majority of global Indians believe that ongoing economic growth in the country will help it overtake China as the next Asian superpower in the next 10 years.
On the second day of the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held in Jaipur, a seminar was held on 'Enhancing rural energy access'.
'We are keeping in mind that knowledge is more important than money.'
The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday allowed Non-Resident Indians to hedge currency risk for external commercial borrowings (ECBs) denominated in rupees with Indian banks.
Seven people of Indian origin have been remanded to judicial custody in the UK in connection with the killing of prominent kabaddi player Suvinder Singh Batth outside a pub he owned in Bilston in the West Midlands.
Efforts will also be directed at creating a conducive environment for NRIs intending to reconnect to their heritage, Fernandes added.
Customers can electronically transfer money instantly to more than 1,000 branches of banks across India.
Bush will send an administrative official to celebrate the Diwali function with the Indian community.
Expatriate Indians living in the United States want the White House to celebrate Diwali, continuing the trend of last two years.
As the Tata group inches closer to taking over Air India in January 2022, the $242-billion conglomerate will also inherit a stake in Kerala's Cochin airport. The Tatas would become the only airline to have an operational stake in a major Indian airport. The airport is a strategic hub connecting India to Middle East nations - home to the largest share of Indian migrant workers. In addition to Air India and Air India Express, private carrier Indigo also uses Cochin to ferry the lucrative 'Malayali Gulf traffic' to multiple locations like Jeddah, Riyadh, Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait and Bahrain, among others. According to regulatory filings, Air India has a three per cent stake in Cochin International Airport.
Two IIT graduates are among the 4 business brains who have struck it rich to the tune of billions of pounds, thanks to the phenomenal growth in online poker.
The San Francisco Bay Area unit of India Against Corruption on Monday slammed the arrest of activist Anna Hazare. Nearly 150 members of the Indian American community gathered at the Civic Centre Plaza in Los Angeles to show their support to Anna Hazare on the eve of Independence Day.They expressed their support for Hazare and the millions of Indians who are demanding the Jan Lokpal Bill to end corruption in India.
Around 300 non-resident Indians from the United States will attend a solidarity rally in Mumbai January 10 to pay homage to those who lost their lives in the 26/11 terrorist strikes on Mumbai. The January 10 date was fixed so that NRIs who are attending the seventh annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at Chennai, which ends January 9, can travel to Mumbai for the event and still make it for the January 12 inauguration of the Vibrant Gujarat event.
The Indian MF industry offers a great investment opportunity to NRIs.
Non-resident Indians have offered to invest $2.7 billion for developing a city within a city, Minister for Non-Resident Affairs Jagdish Tytler said on Thursday.
Riding the wave of growing reputation of Indians in the IT sector, many well-placed senior executives of Indian origin have influenced outsourcing-related decisions in India's favour.
Reaching out to the large Indian Diaspora in the United States, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured them that his government was committed to taking forward the reforms process.
A N Shanbhag, the highly respected investment guru, and his son Sandeep Shanbhag, answer your questions on NRI investment.
Two police officers from Punjab, S K Sharma, additional director general of police, and Gurpreet Kaur Deo, inspector general of police (non-resident Indian affairs), were in the San Francisco Bay Area December 13 to address the grievances of the community.
The state government, a few years ago, started a matching grant scheme for NRIs who wanted to invest in the development of their villages, and the scheme proved attractive for NRIs, especially in the Doaba region.
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The run in equities, coupled with high interest rates, makes both the debt and stock markets attractive.
Forbes has named Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and steel baron Lakshmi Mittal among Europe's Power25: the most powerful people in business.
Brokers od bothe the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange on Tuesday demanded a single transaction tax on securities for only foreign institutional investors and non-resident Indians and asked Finance Minister P Chidambaram
Public sector banking major Indian Overseas Bank on Wednesday launched an Internet-based online remittance product 'e-Cash Home', providing a fast channel for the United States-based non-resident Indians to remit money back home.
'Cyrus was always very different. He would think before acting.'
The founder chairman of the Mittal Group M L Mittal has said that time is ripe to invest in India as the government is opening up more and more sectors for private investment.\n\n
Kolkata's Shrachi group has joined hands with two non-resident Indians for a housing complex exclusively for NRIs and their parents living in India.
"We are looking into the issue because we have received many requests. We will permit NRI fund managers who have at least a year's experience in managing FII funds as long as they do not put their proprietary funds into it," confirmed a senior Sebi official.
Reserve Bank of India has allowed authorised dealers to grant rupee loans to non-resident Indians for purposes other than those specifically prohibited by the central bank
Others in the top 10 include Uday Kotak at the 6th place with a wealth of Rs 94,100 crore, Cyrus S Poonawalla at 7th position with Rs 88,800 crore assets, Cyrus Pallonji Mistry at 8th spot with a wealth of Rs 76,800 crore, Shapoor Pallonji at 9th position with a net worth of Rs 76,800 crore and Dilip Shanghvi at 10th slot with Rs 71,500-crore wealth.
Four visits annually, 14-day stays on average, high spends...any wonder the tourism ministry is taking cognizance of them.
India is now a biz friendly nations, say Arun Jaitley.
