I may have relatives in India,” US President-elect Joseph Biden had declared on his maiden visit to Mumbai in 2013, when VP-elect Kamala Harris’s Tamil Nadu connection wasn’t headline news yet. Biden, then serving as VP, was referring to a Mumbai resident who, he said, shared his surname and had written to him back in 1972, claiming…
Indian immigrants accounted for one-fourth of the total permanent residencies granted by Canada in 2019, setting a new record. India was easily the largest source country for permanent residents (PR), with 85,593 admitted last year, a number that is larger than the total for the next four nations taken together. The data was revealed as…
For Nearly 3 Years India Has Accounted For Major Source of Immigration to Canada! Indians made up for one-fourth of the total permanent residencies granted by Canada in 2019. According to the data disclosed in the 2020 Annual Report on Immigration, a total of 85,593 immigrants were approved as permanent residents (PR) last year. Thus,…
Jatin Upadhyay (47) has fond memories of the first time he voted for a presidential candidate in the United States. It was 2008 and the excitement over the possibility of a first Black president was running high. He had been an immigrant in the country for more than a decade and had acquired citizenship just…
On Popular demand, team behind NRIFriends.net App have started compiling a list of websites loved by NRIs across the World to order online gifts from for their loved ones in India and also in UK, US, Canada, Singapore, Hongkong, Dubai, Gulf, Australia, NewZeland and Europe etc. Add your favourite ones in comments on this facebook…
It used to be the US attracting scores of Indian students. Top-notch universities and a shot at getting a job at Silicon Valley promised a future many Indians sought. That is, until 2016. Since then, the US is steadily losing international students, turned off by its “zero tolerance” immigration policy, two travel bans, and policies…
New Jersey tech entrepreneur Arun Bantval is U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden’s top fake-news watchdog on messaging service WhatsApp about the Democrat and his Indian American running mate Kamala Harris. Messages on WhatsApp, owned by Facebook Inc, are confidential and cannot be seen by moderators who police misleading memes, claims and other content on the…
iPhone 12 Pro Max is so expensive in India that a customer can fly to Dubai, purchase the iPhone, fly back and still save some money. Find out how. Apple has launched the four much-awaited iPhones including the iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max. However, out of all…
Many brands now have an electric car in their line-up, but that doesn’t mean the wave of new arrivals to the market is showing any signs of slowing down. Here’s what’s in store… The electric vehicle has well and truly arrived in the UK, with charging points popping up all around the country and the…
I have had the unique experience of having my first child in my 20’s, my second child in my 30’s and my last at 40. Each pregnancy was its own experience, as each child has been. In no way did I enjoy being pregnant but I cherished each pregnancy because it was such a special…
