Hyderabad, July 22 (IANS) GVK Biosciences, a leading contract research organization, Tuesday announced the appointment of Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business School (HBS) professor, to its board of directors.
Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at the HBS, where he has been a member of the strategy group since 1993, said a company statement here.
Serving […]
Kottayam (Kerala), April 26 (IANS) India and Bahrain will sign a labour agreement in June to facilitate labour mobility and manpower development, a ministry of overseas Indian affairs (MOIA) official said Saturday.
The decision was taken after talks between Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi and visiting Bahrain Labour Minister Majid Al-Alawi at Kumarakom, a […]
Jaipur, April 23 (IANS) Skin colour matters as far as visitors to India are concerned, says a fourth generation South African Indian who claims to have faced 'racial discrimination' himself, particularly in the country's northern parts.
Dinesh Naidoo, vice-president of the Association of Travel Agents in South Africa who was here to attend the first Great […]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Recalling his 'seminal contribution' to empowering the Indian diaspora in the US, Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi Thursday condoled the demise of Gopal Raju.
'It was with profound grief and shock that I learnt about the sad demise of Gopal Raju. He was one of my oldest friends since […]
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) India may soon become the first country to jointly manage with a migrant destination country the entire cycle of movement of workers from recruitment to return to homeland - which could become a model for a new international framework.
Talks have already been held here in March with United Arab Emirates […]
Punalur (Kerala), March 29 (IANS) The police here have sought help from Interpol to nab a NRI, earlier living in Britain, who had allegedly feigned death so that her husband could collect insurance.
Sara Williams, earlier called Saramma Thomas, hailed from this town about 70 km from the state capital. She is now absconding after Britain's […]
Chandigarh, March 28 (IANS) Illegal immigration to Britain could lead to a 10-year ban by the British government when submitting an application for legal migration later, a senior British official said here Friday.
British Deputy High Commissioner to India Creon Butler told reporters that recent changes in immigration laws and procedures were not to discourage immigration […]
Bhubaneswar, March 25 (IANS) He thought he would be richer by a bride, but a Dubai-based non-resident Indian found himself poorer by Rs.1.3 million after professing his love to a woman he met in cyber space.
Jitendra Kumar Nayak, 27, a native of Ainipara village in Orissa's Kendrapada district, said he had been working in Dubai […]
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Seven Indian workers, who have allegedly been cheated by their sponsors in Malaysia and left in the lurch, have found help from the Indian mission in Kuala Lumpur. The labourers will reach home by an Air India flight soon, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said Thursday.
'The workers, who […]
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has urged non-resident Indians in the Gulf region to make monetary contributions to pay Rs.2 million as 'blood money' to save the life of an Indian on the death row in Kuwait.
'I am appealing to all generous NRIs to contribute to save the life […]
Moga (Punjab), March 12 (IANS) A policeman and the parents of a Canada-based youth were arrested in Punjab's Moga town Wednesday for their involvement in the murder of another Canada-based man at a village near here last month.
Jasbir Singh, 25, was murdered just hours after his sister's wedding and a day before his own wedding […]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 11(IANS) The board of directors of Infrastructure Kerala Ltd (InKel), a new infrastructure company that has been formed under public-private partnership, is likely to double its paid up capital from Rs.1 billion to Rs.2 billion.
Chief of InKel C.G. Gopala Pillai told IANS that this would come up in the next full board meeting […]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 6 (IANS) The third straight budget presented by Kerala's Finance Minister Thomas Isaac has nothing much for the nearly two million overseas Keralites who provide the backbone of the state's economy by remitting more than Rs.200 billion ($5 billion) every year.
The total amount that has been set aside for the diaspora in […]
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) The home ministry has installed state-of-the-art machines at all international airports to check the authenticity of passports so that human trafficking can be curbed.
'In order to check the veracity of passports, we use magnifying glasses and ultraviolet lamps have been installed at all international airports. The central government has also […]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Two Afghan nationals of Indian origin have been arrested here along with four associates on charges of smuggling a psychotropic substance used in preparing heroin, police said Saturday.
'Satpal, Amarjeet Singh - both Afghan nationals - and others identified as Rabia Begum, her husband Kalim Akhtar, Sampat and Raju were arrested […]
