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Back home, the workers are looking to start afresh. Their best bet seems to be rehabilitation packages.

Punjab Minister for NRI Affairs Bikram Singh Majithia said they were being set up keeping in view the demand for more such police stations by the NRI community.

In India, Mumbai has emerged as the most expensive city for expatriates and was ranked 118 in the Index. Last year Mumbai was ranked 114th on the list.

Asked whether Indians are being targeted abroad, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said, "One cannot make such a general statement."

The number of Indians who left during the grace period till October-end is 1,34,281, the Indian Embassy here said in a statement.

All passengers coming to India will have to fill in a new detailed customs form on their arrival from tomorrow.

High costs, poor job prospects and wrangles over work permits are persuading a host of Indian students with foreign degrees to return home.

There were about 10,000 Indians before the start of the serious strife between government troops and Sunni militants backed by al Qaeda in Iraq.

The trend of Indians returning from abroad to work here has picked up pace with the recovery in the country's economy.

The minister said the government has already set up an Indian Workers Resource Centre in Dubai and will set up two more in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.

South Sudan's capital is witnessing heavy fighting due to clashes between former rebels and government soldiers in several parts of the city.

The meeting also decided to explore possibilities of setting up an industrial complex in Maharashtra to rehabilitate returnees, Pallykandi said.

V K Singh said presently, a section of Indian workers facing difficulties in two major Saudi companies -- Saudi Oger and the Saad Group -- are being brought back to India.

Around 1,500 blue collar workers from Tamil Nadu are among those who are using the amnesty to come back to the country.

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services receives about 1,00,000 green card applications from high-skilled applicants of Indian origin every year.

The company in its statement said that in 4 steps, a customer can avail of online exchange, finance and insurance, personalize & own their chosen Mahindra vehicle.

"During this period of volatility in other asset classes, a large number of PPB bank account holders are moving their savings into fixed deposits during the ongoing lockdown," stated Paytm Payments Bank.

The fund house claimed that media outlets quoted its CEO Jenny Johnson out of context.

The company has cut prices anywhere from Rs 2,000 on the smaller screen televisions going up to Rs two lakh on a flagship 85-inch model apart from rolling out long tenure no-cost EMI schemes and bundling offers. It has launched a new 85-inch model at Rs 5.9 lakh bringing down its earlier pricing structure of Rs 10 lakh in this screen size.

Almost all the 147 PMSes delivered positive returns to investors during the month.

However, Ashwin B added that there has been a significant drop in sales of non-term policies, witnessing a decline of 50 per cent.

A hike in taxes on fuels, which will add to government’s revenue, helped lift sentiment.

The Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund fiasco seems to have hit the debt mutual fund space very hard. The data released by Association of Mutual Funds in India or Amfi reveals that most debt mutual fund categories have witnessed outflows in the last month.

Union Bank of India announced reduction in its MCLR up to 15 basis points across all tenors, effective May 11. Overnight MCLR has been reduced by 15 bps to 7.15 per cent from 7.30 per cent and one-month MCLR by 10 bps to 7.25 per cent.

"We have decided to take this initiative to help our customers to overcome this pandemic and drive growth in the housing sector. With this, over 2.35 lakh of our customers will be positively impacted irrespective of their base loan amount," PNB Housing Finance Managing Director and CEO Neeraj Vyas said.

India has allowed discounting of prolonged stay period for determining the residency status in relief for NRIs.

In a notification issued Friday, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) allowed tax exemption to donations under Section 80 G of the Income Tax Act, on the grounds that the structure would be a “place of historic importance and a place of public worship”.

The non-state lender on its part is not reporting such customers to these institutions.

Categories like essentials, at-home entertainment, health and insurance continue to show greater resiliency.

If rulers can change the law to suit themselves, the rule of law does not exist, even if the laws are applied uniformly to the rest of society.

Major shifts in the composition of the S&P 500 since the mid-1990s have led to a higher aggregate profit margin for the index.

A second general lesson is that critical mistakes in any phase can have a devastating impact, slowing momentum and negating hard-won gains.

The smart, connected products — made possible by vast improvements in processing power and device miniaturisation and by the network benefits of ubiquitous wireless connectivity — have unleashed a new era of competition.

Despite all the interest in eye-catching designs, cognitive science suggests most opportunities for the IoT will arise by creating useful offerings.

“It is information,” he wrote, “that enables knowledge workers to do their job.” This is especially true for executives.

Most of us are a lot like those monkeys. On the upside, we learn from one another, we don’t let down our mates, and we get along.

Apart from Paranjpe, HN Motiwalla, Rammohan N Bhave and Thomas Panamthanath are other independent directors of the company while TC Suseel Kumar is a nominee director on the board of LIC Mutual Fund Trustee.

A law requiring 120 days' stay in India to claim Non-Resident Indian (NRI) status needs to be changed, an association representing NRIs has demanded, citing economic disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In official emails to permanent residents who have enquired about the availability of these flights, the high commission has indicated that at this point, the flights are available only to Canadian citizens and their immediate family members who are permanent residents and accompanying them on the flights.

Khanna, 43, is the only Indian-American lawmaker to be named to the White House's Opening Up America Again Congressional Group which comprises Congressmen from both the Republican and the Democratic parties.

Indian-American Dr Madhvi Aya, who contracted the coronavirus in the line of duty in New York, the country's COVID-19 epicentre, could only exchange text messages with her husband and daughter from her hospital bed before she lost the battle to the deadly virus.

Trump's plan to temporarily suspend immigration in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and to protect American jobs, has shocked Indian IT companies and technology professionals. As they anxiously await how the restrictions will pan out, New York-based immigration lawyer Cyrus D Mehta explained its likely impact.

Figures released this week by the National Health Service England show that of the 13,918 patients who died in hospitals till April 17 after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, 16.2 per cent were of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background and those identifying with Indian ethnicity made up 3 per cent of that.

Seema Nanda has announced her decision to step down as the CEO of the Democratic National Committee, the top administrative position in the main Opposition party, ahead of the presidential elections in November.

Renu Khator, an Indian-American university chancellor, has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her contributions in the fields of education and academic leadership.

BR Shetty landed in Abu Dhabi with $8 in 1973 and turned his sweat into a personal fortune worth billions.

New York is the epicentre of the pandemic in the US and currently has 295,106 COVID-19 cases with over 17,000 deaths.On Tuesday, 337 people died of the disease in the state.

"Indian men are 150 per cent more likely to work in health or social care roles than their white British counterparts," according to the report.

The Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Indian Consulate in Dubai started e-registrations on Wednesday night to form a database of those wanting to return to India. Over 50% of the applicants are from Kerala. Malayalees comprise more than 1 million of the 3.4 million Indians in the UAE.