'Things started to get a bit more real when my classes were moved online -- for the first time in my school experience -- for two weeks.' 'Then four weeks. Then two months.'
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.
The run in equities, coupled with high interest rates, makes both the debt and stock markets attractive.
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.
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.
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.
Jaitley said, RBI will decide by assessing market situation
The Indian MF industry offers a great investment opportunity to NRIs.
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.
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.
A N Shanbhag, the highly respected investment guru, and his son Sandeep Shanbhag, answer your questions on NRI investment.
India is now a biz friendly nations, say Arun Jaitley.
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.
Forbes has named Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and steel baron Lakshmi Mittal among Europe's Power25: the most powerful people in business.
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.
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
Complaints to NCM fall down sharply...4,000 Indian women deserted by NRI husbands since 2016...79 districts in India still don't have blood banks...
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.
"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.
Foreigners and NRIs would now be able to book train tickets in India online by using international debit and credit cards through IRCTC website.
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
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
A blanket ban may be imposed soon on NRIs, PIOs and foreigners having children through surrogacy in India with the Union health ministry and the National Commission for Women proposing it as part of a new legislation.
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
Four visits annually, 14-day stays on average, high spends...any wonder the tourism ministry is taking cognizance of them.
Singh has also sought details from the Finance Ministry on the issue, said Chandy who raised objections before the Prime Minister over the reported move by the Government to levy the tax on the money of Indians working abroad.
Four non-resident Indians and two Ghana citizens of Indian origin, who were charged by Scotland Yard on May 18 for allegedly trafficking an Indian woman from Hyderabad for sex, will now face trial in October.
A coalition of Indian-American organisations, the Indian National Overseas Congress and the Indian Muslim Council-USA have demanded action against the people who admitted on tape to participating in the post-Godhra massacre.
SBI expects to firm up its new deposit investment scheme aimed at the expatriates, including the Resurgent India Bond holders, in the next two to three weeks.
As far as people like Kamala Harris are concerned, it's okay to share a culture, but wrong to play domestic Indian politics during American elections,' notes Vir Sanghvi.
Leading London-based NRI industrialists have evinced "keen interest" in investing in new projects in Uttar Pradesh including a new airport near Delhi, a senior state official said on Tuesday.\n\n\n\n
According to sources, the central bank is keen on such a scheme to attract foreign exchange, as the country's reserves have seen a depletion in the wake of a weakening domestic currency.
The scheme has been launched in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Gulf, and is aimed at helping women who have been deserted by their overseas Indian spouses or are facing divorce proceedings.
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