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
For decades, Bangladeshi governments referred to their overseas workers as remittance warriors—a formulation that was generous in one respect and quietly limiting in another. It honored their economic contribution while bracketing their political identity. The July Uprising may have ended that bracketing for good. What is now taking shape, imperfectly and without clear resolution, is a constituency that earns its living abroad but has not surrendered its stake in what Bangladesh becomes.
George E. Gabriel, an educationist of Sri Lankan origin, has been appointed to the United States President’s Commission on White House Fellowships by US President Joe Biden. He studied at Sri Lanka’s University of Kelaniya before immigrating to the United States
Hindus in the US feel that associating luxury handbags made of cow leather with the 'Brahmin' brand was very inappropriate, and are urging the Fairhaven (Massachusetts)-headquartered Brahmin Handbags company to consider changing the name of the bags
While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the most popular Indian political party among the Indian diaspora in the US, a majority is critical of the Modi government's policies despite showing overall strong support for the nation, according to a new study. Support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally however remains undimmed
Members of the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) on June 6 participated in a protest opposite Downing Street in London city against alleged large-scale land grabbing in Pakistan's Sindh province
The Pakistani government has condemned the “premeditated” murder of four members of a Pakistani-origin Canadian family in Canada and called the incident an act of terrorism
Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter, Ashish Lata Ramgobin, has been sentenced to seven-year imprisonment by a court in South Africa in a 6 million rand fraud case, according to media reports
In recent months, Bangladesh, the country once called a ‘basket case’, has been in the news for its extraordinary transition from a least developed country to a developing country status
Malaysian authorities have detained 155 immigrants, including 62 Bangladeshis and one each from Pakistan and India, from an illegal settlement in the city of Cyberjaya in Selangor state, media reports said
Pakistani expats in the UAE are either cancelling or altering travel plans to their home country due to the travel ban imposed and the uncertainties prevailing over flight services amid COVID-19
Rashika Jds, a Sri Lankan civil engineer in the UAE, won the mega $4 million Big Ticket jackpot draw held in Abu Dhabi. Just after the announcement of the result, he said his life was changing
The UAE has extended the ban on travellers from four South Asian countries till June 30 as a measure taken to contain COVID-19 pandemic
Indo-Arab Helping Hands (IAHH), a group of Indian professionals working in Saudi Arabia who earned appreciation for their work with Covid relief in India, has now come forward to raise awareness about the post-Covid fungal infection Mucormycosis or black fungus, which has taken a toll of dozens of lives in India
Tejinder Singh, the founder editor of the Washington-based India America Today newspaper has died, according to a tweet from the ethnic publication. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby paid fulsome tributes to Singh calling him “a real gentleman, good reporter, damn good reporter.”
Sri Lanka-born British actress Nimmi Harasgama has been nominated for best drama performance at the UK’s National television awards
Two Bangladeshi Americans figure among 12 high school students who have won the New York Times College Scholarship this year