Ten undocumented Nepali women migrant workers stranded in Lebanon for several months made it home on Thursday
The Power, Potential, and Unrealised Promise, of South Asia
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.
From Remittances to Investments: Why Every State Should Build a Stronger Partnership with Overseas Indians
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.
Bangladesh's Expatriate Card: A New Chapter in Migrant Financial Security
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.
In Search of Dharma in the Indian Diaspora
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
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Indian expat wins $54,451 in Dubai draw
A United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Indian expat has won 200,000 dirhams ($54,451) at the weekly Mahzooz draw in Dubai, the media reported
Turkey deports 40 illegally residing Pakistani citizens
Turkey has deported 40 Pakistanis who were reportedly residing in the country illegally, Express News reported on Friday, with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) confirming the development
Daughters to testify in Indian couple's murder in Dubai
Two daughters of an Indian couple who were murdered inside their home in Dubai, will testify at a court next month, the media reported
Biden's speechwriter Vinay Reddy makes Indian village proud
Villagers of Pothireddypeta in Karimnagar district of Telangana, about 200 km from Hyderabad, feel proud that Cholleti Vinay Reddy, an Indian American, has been appointed as the director of speechwriting of new US President Joe Biden
Bangladeshi man beaten to death in South Africa
A 30-year-old Bangladeshi man was beaten to death by miscreants in Brixton, Johannesburg, South Africa at 10am (local time) on Tuesday
Bahrain urged to take back Bangladeshi expats
Bangladesh has urged the Bahrain government to take back expatriate Bangladeshis who were stuck due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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On the eve of her taking over as the path-breaking first vice president of Asian descent, Kamal Harris assured her fellow Americans from the continent celebrating her victory that she will ensure a pathway is open for the community – and that is a lesson she learned from her mother
Migrant Nepali workers paid hefty sums for overseas jobs and returned
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Indians travel from exclusion to vice presidency in the United States
The first Indian recorded to have reached the shores of the United States is a man from Madras (now Chennai), the area from where the family of Shyamala Gopalan, mother of Kamala Harris - who is set to become Vice President of the US on January 20 - hails
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When Kamala Harris takes oath as America's Vice President on January 20, 2020, it will be a moment without parallel in the country's history. Harris will be the first Indian and Black American, the first woman, and first woman of color to ever win the election to America's highest political office
UAE's Indian businessman nominated for Centre for Migration
M.A. Yusuffali, Chairman and Managing Director of UAE-based Lulu Group International has been nominated as an expert member of the Governing Council of India Centre for Migration (ICM) by India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
NFIA elects Ajoy Dube as new president
Ajoy Dube from Bellflower, California is the new president of the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA)
Indian names bloom in White House power circle
Kamala Devi Harris, Vivek Murthy, Gautam Raghavan, Mala Adiga, Vinay Reddy, Bharat Ramamurti, Neera Tanden, Celine Gounder, Atul Gawande are some of the Indian names that are blooming more now than at any other time in the innermost circles of the White House and that too within weeks after the #MyNameIs blowback to Republicans' mangling of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' first name during the 2020 campaign
Biden names Indian-American Uzra Zeya as Under Secy at State Dept
US President-elect Joe Biden has named Uzra Zeya, an Indian-American diplomat who quit her State Department job in protest against the outgoing administration's alleged racial and sexist bias, as his Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights
