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…
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…
Rishi Mukherjee lost his part-time job during the lockdown in March. Studying hospitality in the United Kingdom, he got another one recently, but had to settle for lower pay. “Many of my friends and I have been sending letters to our university administration to waive our fee as we have shifted completely to online education…
New Zealand Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Gaurav Sharma on Wednesday scripted history by becoming the first parliamentarian of Indian origin to take oath in Sanskrit language on foreign land. 33-year-old Dr Sharma, who hails from Himachal Pradesh, was recently elected as an MP from the Labour Party in New Zealand. Dr Sharma said that…
5,246 Indians invested in Dubai property while 1,913 Pakistanis bought real estate in the emirate. A total of 5,246 Indians has invested in the property market in the emirate as per the Dubai Land Department (DLD) records, followed by the 5,172 Emiratis. As many as 2,198 Saudi investors chosen asset in Dubai. Chinese investors in…
A similar temporary ban has also been imposed on travellers from Belgium, Philippines and the United Kingdom China has now suspended all flights coming from India. It comes in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases in India. The Chinese embassy in its statement said that entry into China with visas issued after November 3, 2020…
Do not forget to declare your gifts while filing your income tax return (ITR). Check whether the gift you receive on Diwali from your friends, relatives or your employer is taxable. Although the Gift Tax Act was abolished in 1998, all gifts you receive during Diwali or any other festival may not be tax exempt….
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…
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…
