At a time when daily COVID-19 cases in India are topping 25,000, a new survey conducted by a Delhi-based citizen survey platform has found that as many as 69 per cent Indians are reluctant to take the coronavirus vaccine immediately after it becomes widely available. The percent of Indians hesitant to be vaccinated immedately has…
Indians are proud of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the first woman to reach the apex of power in the United States, and wish her success, said V Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs on Wednesday. Muraleedharan was addressing a virtual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas conference on the theme “Role of Diaspora in Promotion of Indian…
A prominent social activist here has requested the Indian authorities to initiate measures such as granting emergency visas on departure to help Indian-origin families travel to their homeland for health or other emergencies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. India’s aviation safety regulator DGCA has extended the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger flights till December 31….
With the United Kingdom government approving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, travel agencies in India have already started planning ‘vaccine tourism’ packages for Indians who want to travel to England to take the shots. Travel agencies such as Zenith Holidays in Kolkata, Gem Tours & Travels in Mumbai and Chariot World Tours in Bengaluru confirmed that…
Over the last two days, more than 2,00,000 people have signed petitions seeking justice. Majorly the movement was started by Indian nationals living in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. The ongoing farmers’ protest against the Centre’s three amendments in the farm laws has shaken the national conscience. Arriving in a convoy of…
Bank Accounts For NRI/PIO/OCI All about Non-Resident Accounts: Bank accounts for NRIs Before we explore the details of the above mentioned bank Accounts for NRIs ONE FUNNY THING….. First of all, there is nothing called “NRI ACCOUNT”….bank accounts are called- NRE & NRO and those are for NRIs (PIOs/OCIs as well) And ONE NOT SO FUNNY THING……
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…
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…
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…
The claim by President Donald Trump on Twitter that he is now “immune” to Covid-19 having survived an initial infection has sparked a new wave of controversy. “A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday”, he announced to his 87 million followers on Sunday afternoon. “That means I can’t get it (immune), and…
