South Asia, for all its faults and constraints, is the fastest-growing economic region in the world this year. It is also home to the Commonwealth’s largest three countries in terms of population, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, representing just under two billion citizens, the majority under 30-years old.
Overseas Indians possess both the financial capacity and the desire to invest, yet many promising projects are abandoned because of fragmented procedures, multiple government approvals and the absence of a single accountable institution to guide investors from concept to completion.
The Expatriate Card will be a source of recognition to millions of Bangladeshi remittance warriors and a sign of gratitude from the State for their support to the nation's development.
We have become an aggressive and divisive society which is becoming intolerant of others' ideas and points of view. For a pluralistic society like India, all the people who live there are important and we need to work together to take the country forward and to great heights. Unless we change our present thinking, we have the danger of becoming an extremist state
“My participation in the celebration of India’s Republic Day today is a testament to the value I place on the friendship United States has with India,” including continued collaboration in all the possible sectors while stating that the US -India strategic partnership, based on mutual values and commitment will continue under the new Biden–Harris administration, ranking Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks, Chairman of House Foreign Relations Committee, said
A five-year-old Dubai-based Indian boy has set a new record for being able to read 20 books in an hour, the media reported on Thursday
The single-member commission for labour reforms constituted by the Indian government and led by retired chief secretary of Kerala, CV Anandabose, recommended the creation of a notional or virtual constituencies for NRIs to elect representatives to legislative bodies including assembly and parliament from the country of their domicile
An Indian-origin paediatrician suffering from terminal cancer took another doctor as hostage and, after several hours of a stand-off with police, killed her and then himself, according to police
For those of us who have been away from India for decades, Republic Day and Independence Day are among the few times that we gather to celebrate the great country of our birth
India is reaching out to the Caribbean, in tune with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's focused outreach to the Indian diaspora across the globe
Ramesh Sangha, the Sikh MP from the Toronto area, has been thrown out of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party for criticizing fellow MP Navdeep Bains, who recently resigned as the country's industry minister to spend more time with his family
"Withdrawn". A single word on a thick bureaucratic file on the seventh day of the Biden administration delivered a huge win for spouses of workers on H1B visas in the US who spent the last four years worried sick that their work authorisations would be killed off
US President Joe Biden appointed two Indian Americans, Sohini Chatterjee and Aditi Gorur, to the leadership team of the US mission to the UN on Tuesday
A typical day for him starts at 5 a.m. and ends at 2 a.m. After all there are check-ups, looking after in-house patients, and media interviews. Not to mention, several celebrities who drop in for a quick hello
Saima Mohsin, a Pakistani-origin Muslim woman, is set to become the first Muslim woman in the United States to take charge of the federal attorney in Michigan’s Eastern District
A new Hindu temple in Dubai, the foundation stone of which was laid last August amidst the pandemic, will open its doors to worshippers by Diwali next year, according to media reports
Nepal Airlines Corporation has repatriated the bodies of 18 Nepali nationals from Malaysia
This tripping over each other to pay homage to Subhas Bose is mere hypocrisy, says Ashish Ray, the London-based author who wrote the book, "Laid to Rest", which comprehensively and with documentary evidence establishes the circumstances of Subhas Bose's death (on 18 August 1945 in Taipei following a plane crash), cremation and transportation and preservation of his mortal remains in Tokyo
A Dubai-based 14-year-old boy from Kerala has made a six-layered stencil portrait of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a gift to him on the occasion of the country's Republic Day (January 26), a media report said
