This year, pop artists like Pakistan’s Aima Baig and Kaifi Khalil, and India’s Gulab Sidhu, presented the image of young South Asia to fans in Norway. There was Kurdish music, Latin American folk with Afro-Caribbean tones; inter-generational pieces and alternative possibilities in the Scandinavian context.
The UAE has several advantages vis-à-vis Golden Visas being offered not just by other Gulf countries, but countries in other regions as well. Indians, like nationals of several other countries, are likely to be more attracted towards the UAE’s Golden Visa given not only the several advantages which UAE possesses, but also the flexibility of the UAE’s golden visa.
UAE possesses specific advantages from an academic standpoint. It hosts branch campuses of several dozen top universities: New York University, for example, has its Abu Dhabi campus as a full-service liberal-arts university. France's Sorbonne University has a branch in Abu Dhabi. Britain's Heriot-Watt, University of Birmingham, Middlesex, and other Western universities have similarly invested heavily in UAE campuses.
Barely twenty years later, in 2023, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially accepted Tasveeri as an Oscar-qualifying film festival. It is so far the only South Asian film festival to be officially recognized as such. This means that Tasveer film festival winners become eligible for submissions to the Oscars.
Indians who are fully vaccinated with Covishield or any other UK-approved vaccine will not be quarantined when they arrive in Britain from October 11, the High Commissioner to India, ending a row over what was perceived as unfair imposition of COVId-19 quarantine rules
India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday held a virtual meeting with Australian counterpart Alan Tudge and discussed the issue of 17,000 Indian students who want to return to Australia for education
Indian American Pramila Jayapal, the leader of the progressive faction of the Democratic Party, has emerged as a powerful force in US politics pushing President Joe Biden leftward after holding his signature multi-trillion-dollar programmes hostage
Desperate to break the ice with US President Joe Biden who has not interacted even once with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan despite being in office since January, Islamabad is now using the “good offices” of an influential Pakistani American to arrange a telephone call between the two leaders
India’s Chief of Defense Staff, General Bipin Rawat, in what is being termed as a “historic meeting” with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, discussed expanding multilateral cooperation with regional partners, according to Defence Department Spokesperson John Kirby
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed solidarity with India and called for strengthening economic ties between the two countries
Internationally renowned academic Noam Chomsky has urged the United States and India to engage with the Taliban, work towards overcoming differences with other regional powers, and help the Afghan people rather than blocking ”the best of the options that are available”
US President Joe Biden has no immediate plans to call Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has blamed the US for the Afghanistan mess and its fallout in his country, according to Biden's Spokesperson Jen Psaki
Global Organization of People of Indian Origin Connecticut Chapter (GOPIO-CT) organized a program of welcoming new students from India at the Univ. of Connecticut, School of Business from its Stamford and Hartford campuses with a networking dinner on Friday, Sept. 24 at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Stamford
Kamzy Gunaratnam, a Sri Lankan origin MP in Norway, who recently won her election from the Labour Party, said that she would ask the new Norwegian government to continue engagement with Sri Lanka amid growing calls from some quarters to boycott engagement with the South Asian nation
The Canadian government has lifted a month-long ban on passenger flights from India. The ban was put in place in view of the enhanced COVID-19 protocols
Malaysia has removed travel restrictions on fully vaccinated workers from five South Asian nations - Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
The four million strong Indian diaspora, billed as the most educated and most affluent of all ethnic communities in America and recognized for their phenomenal "rise" in all spheres of American society and public life, came in for fulsome mention as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had meetings in Washington with US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, a person of Indian descent (her mother came to the US from Chennai) who has ascended to the second highest office in the nation
US Vice President Kamala Harris has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that she was asking Pakistan to act on terrorism and ensure that terror groups do not target India or the US, according to India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla
The US strongly supports France strengthening ties with India, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said amid a diplomatic row between Washington and Paris over their roles and alliances in the Indo-Pacific region
