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NCW asks Centre to take diplomatic steps to save NRI marriages |
Marital discord among NRIs are on the rise. “Since last year, 1,820 cases have been registered with the National Commission for Women that have to do with disputes in NRI marriages. A large number of unregistered cases are also there which we keep coming to know of,” says NCW chairperson Girija Vyas. She was speaking at a conference organized jointly by the NCW and the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.
Noting that the majority of the complaints came from countries like the US, UK and Canada, she said the Commission was facing difficulties in helping the women due to international legal barriers. “India needs to sign the Hague convention. We also need to sign more bilateral treaties with other countries to tackle the legal issues involved,” Vyas said. MOIA was represented by its director, Sandhya Shukla. “The conference will help us prepare a road map for the task ahead,” she says.
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Indian in demand—in India, US, UK and Pakistan
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| Nineteen-year-old CEO of Global Inc, Suhas Gopinath, has decided to shift his office headquarters from California in the US to his home city of Bangalore after Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy assured him of office space. His company had recently been allotted office space in Karachi by the Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukath Aziz. Suhas Gopinath who has been trying to get the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to inaugurate a conference he is holding is recognized by various media as the youngest CEO. He has also been invited by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair to set up an entrepreneurial cell in Britain to promote business skills among prospective investors in his country.
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No hikes plea on Gulf sector |
Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vyalar Ravi has asked the Indian Government to spare the Gulf sector from airfare hikes as most NRIs in the region are low-paid workers. Ravi met civil aviation minister Praful Patel and asked him to call a meeting of airlines to discuss the issue.
He said the 30 per cent rise in airfares for the peak summer season on the Gulf-India sector hit low-income workers who travelled to India to visit their families.
He said Indians, especially workers in the Gulf, remit $12.5bn annually as foreign exchange, working in difficult conditions and getting no incentive from the Indian Government. |
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NRI-promoted B-School in Kerala woos Muscat students |
| The NRI-promoted Asian School of Business (ASB) in Trivandrum is wooing prospective students from Muscat. Admission for the post-graduate programme in management (PGPM) is open for the second batch of 60 students. “The two-year full-time PGPM is the flagship course of ASB. All the 30 students of the first batch have been placed on paid internship with leading companies in India and abroad. Now, we are set to receive the second batch of 60 students for the PGPM, and seats are earmarked exclusively for NRI and foreign students. |
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