Nagender Chindam, founder and chairman of Pravasi Bharat, a UK-based right group that has been campaigning for the right to an absentee ballot, on his journey and experiences as a NRI professional turned voting rights campaigner. Exclusive to Rediff.com
IndusInd Bank signed a memorandum of understanding with LIC on Friday to offer group insurance of Rs 3 lakh to all its NRI account holders.
Understanding tax residency rules and maintaining proper documentation is imperative to ensure smooth tax compliance.
NRI entrepreneurs Moni Varma, founder of the Veetee brand basmati rice and Rami Ranger, founder-chairman of Sun Oil Ltd, have won the Asian of the year and Asian Leadership in Europe Awards for 2006 respectively.
Sanjay Kanda, 23, of Ranelagh Road, Southall, knocked Makhan Singh unconscious during a row between two groups at a celebration in Heston, Middlesex.
A special session to discuss NRI women's issue was convened on the third day of the Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas.
The South African model, who was allegedly raped in a hotel in Mumbai, Thursday identified two accused before a magistrate in an identification parade, police said.
According to doctors, Siva had lost too much blood and his heart was too badly damaged.
Anu Peshawaria is in India to lobby for laws and awareness to counter the problem.
The yellow page, which will reach out to about five million Indians living outside country, will feature Indian businesses willing for tie-ups and NRI entrepreneurs as well. To be made available in print and through an Internet edition, the yellow pages can also be obtained from Indian High Commissions and missions abroad.
Singh claims he was passed over for promotion and given second-rate laboratory equipment because of his race. He also accuses Wilmut of stealing his ideas.
Chandu Champion is Kartik Aaryan's most ambitious work so far and the actor's muscular gusto is undeniable. There's visible fire in the man's belly but not enough soul, observes Sukanya Verma.
"The CWS now recommends that the uncle takes over care of the two Indian children in the child welfare case and a Stavanger District Court will make the final decision on April 17", said CWS Communication Adviser Thomas Bore Olsen in an emailed statement on Thursday night.
India's luxury car rental market is experiencing a surge in demand, particularly in Tier 1 cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi, with executive travellers, especially from the tech sector and younger demographics like the millennials and the Gen Z, increasingly renting high-end vehicles for special occasions and domestic travel. Luxorides, a luxury car rental company, observed a 40 per cent year-on-year rise in bookings in 2024 (until April) on popular routes like Delhi-Rishikesh, Delhi-Vrindavan, and Delhi-Jim Corbett National Park, as well as Chandigarh-Manali and Chandigarh-Ladakh.
An NRI businessman has launched Dubai's first super-speciality hospital in the private sector, seeking to provide world-class medical care to people in the entire Arab world and Iran.
Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to modify its earlier order scaling down the NRI seats in these colleges from over 100 to 30.
State Bank of India has raised the interest rate on new NRI term deposits up to 0.30 per cent across various maturities effective from Tuesday.
Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair presented the award to John Athwal at a gala function.
Ramesh Chandra, a retired design engineer who has been in the US since 1980, is in New Delhi to attend the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. His main interest in coming to India has been to point out this flaw, which he says is evident at several important places.
NRI hotelier Gulshan Bhatia is the front-runner to acquire Waldorf Hilton for 185 million. Bhatia, who along with her son Asif, has built a fortune of more than 70 million as a hotelier, is poised to acquire the 299-room Waldorf in Central London.
Protesting efforts by a non-resident Indian in the United States for securing patent for yoga, Swami Ramdev on Tuesday said either government of India should get the patent or it be given to his Patanjali Ashram.
The Gulf countries, a major source of NRI remittances to India, have been experiencing unprecedented growth in the cost of living on the one hand and a steep decline in exchange rates due to most Gulf currencies' peg to the dollar.
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The Hinduja brothers, who top Britain's rich list, said in a statement that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget had set the direction for a 'very positive long-term agenda'.
An Indian-origin man has pleaded guilty to hiring men to murder an NRI couple in Michigan and faces life imprisonment.
The Reserve Bank of India has asked banks to put in place appropriate systems to check fraudulent withdrawals of Non-Resident Indian deposits.
NRIs can repatriate the proceeds from the sale of a residential property in India, provided they meet a few conditions.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday hit back at Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a non-resident Indian, saying there is no need to take any advice from a person who is outside jail at the moment and challenging his conviction.
Warsi, a professor of South Asian Languages and Linguistics in Washington University in St Louis, said there was a clear-cut change in the atmosphere and that the sense of insecurity no longer existed among Muslim in America.
'Many non-resident taxpayers faced issues in filing Form 10F since the portal didn't allow those who didn't have PAN to file the form.'
Indian American indicted for selling federal government secrets
Lakhvir Singh, 45, was said to have killed Lakhvinder 'Lucky' Cheema, 39, because she could not bear the thought of his marriage to another woman.
Ajit has pioneered a new field of T cell-based diagnosis of TB infection.
The government on Friday informed Lok Sabha that several schemes have been announced to encourage domestic production of hardware and NRI investment in nanotechnology.
Britain has launched a probe into allegations of "sex for asylum" racket after an NRI alleged that 'corrupt' officials prefer to give visas to 'attractive' girls in return for sexual favours.
