NRI News
NRI body opposes move to tax long stay in India
Thursday, 08/12/2011
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/NRI-body-opposes-move-to-tax-long-stay-in-India/articleshow/10932907.cms
The largest umbrella organization of overseas Indians has urged the Indian government to withdraw a proposal to impose tax on non-resident Indians staying over 60 days during a visit to the homeland.
US orders review of J-1 student work visa program
Wednesday, 07/12/2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/us-orders-review-of-j-1-student-work-visa-program/articleshow/11020051.cms
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an ``extensive and thorough review'' of a foreign exchange program that has been used by US businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry.
Ramakrishna Karuturi: Man behind Karuturi Global - world's largest producer of cut roses
Tuesday, 06/12/2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ramakrishna-karuturi-man-behind-karuturi-global--worlds-largest-producer-of-cut-roses/articleshow/10973220.cms
Three years ago when Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi set up shop in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, his company was already the world's largest producer of cut roses. But the founder and managing director of Karuturi Global didn't want to do in Addis Ababa what he was doing in Kenya in the past seven years. The 45-year-old mechanical engineer wanted to move beyond the company's mainstay, floriculture.
Guyana born NRI elected chief of diaspora body
Sunday, 04/12/2011
http://www.punjabstarnews.com/NRI-News/Page-2.html
Guyana born US resident Ashook Ramsaran has been elected the international president of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), the largest umbrella organization of overseas Indians.
US Sikh group leads call for probing racing profiling
Friday, 02/12/2011
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/US-Sikh-group-leads-call-for-probing-racing-profiling/articleshow/10954461.cms
Amid charges of racial profiling by a group of 38 civil rights organizations led by the Sikh Coalition, the US Transportation Security Administration is investigating allegations that Mexican travellers were being targeted for extra screening.
NRI body opposes move to tax long stay in India
Thursday, 01/12/2011
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/NRI-body-opposes-move-to-tax-long-stay-in-India/articleshow/10932907.cms
The largest umbrella organization of overseas Indians has urged the Indian government to withdraw a proposal to impose tax on non-resident Indians staying over 60 days during a visit to the homeland.
IIT Bombay graduate Arun Majumdar gets top US energy job
Wednesday, 30/11/2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/iit-bombay-graduate-arun-majumdar-gets-top-us-energy-job/articleshow/10928292.cms
Naming yet another Indian American to a key administration post, President Barack Obama has appointed Arun Majumdar, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, alumnus as the top bureaucrat in the Department of Energy.
Sikh Lens eyes Punjabi arts, films at festival
Tuesday, 29/11/2011
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/SikhLens-eyes-Punjabi-arts-films-at-festival/articleshow/10896902.cms
For an entire weekend, Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts hosted the SikhLens' Sikh Arts and Film Festival for a second consecutive year from Nov. 18-20, celebrating the best and brightest in Sikh cinematic and artistic culture.
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