NRI voters urged to participate in Lok Sabha polls: Here's your voting guideThe central government is encouraging all Non-Resident Indian (NRI) voters to participate in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, which will b...
20 Mar, 2024, 04.04 PM IST
Punjab CM launches new website for NRIsLaunching the website, the Chief Minister described it as a path-breaking initiative aimed at ensuring the well-being of the NRIs on one ha...
30 Dec, 2023, 11.53 AM IST
Punjabi diaspora seeks fast track courts for NRIs for quick disposal of casesThe Punjabi NRIs mainly raised issues related to property grabbing and family disputes. The Punjab government had held its first 'NRI Punja...
19 Dec, 2022, 08.04 PM IST
NRIs can't vote online in Lok Sabha polls, Election Commission clarifies"If it happens, it needs amendment to the Representation of the People Act. No such amendment has taken place," the spokesperson said.
21 Feb, 2019, 10.35 PM IST
Bill introduced on NRI marriages in ParliamentIf an NRI man fails to register his marriage within 30 days of date of marriage, his passport can be impounded or revoked.
11 Feb, 2019, 08.05 PM IST
NRI push for BJP Lok Sabha poll campaignThe party held a meeting of around 150 non-resident Indians (NRIs) from 25 countries on the eve of Republic Day at the BJP headquarters in ...
05 Feb, 2019, 09.46 AM IST
BJP objects to ‘proxy voting’ for domestic migrants"No proxy or absentee mode be adopted and therefore in the garb of migrant voters no bogus voting should be permitted,” BJP said in an all-...
30 Aug, 2018, 07.51 AM IST
NRI proxy voting: no easy journey in Rajya SabhaFormer chief election commissioners and House panels have opposed the move and said it would be open to court challenges, disadvantages the...
11 Aug, 2018, 07.47 AM IST
3,768 complaints from Indian women abroad against NRI husbands during 2014-17The Indians missions and posts abroad received 3,768 petitions from distressed Indian women on complaints related to dowry and ill-treatmen...
14 Mar, 2018, 04.51 PM IST
Highest priority to provide help to distressed Indians: Sushma SwarajSwaraj said her Ministry has been receiving petitions from Indian women stating that their non-resident Indian spouse has hidden the fact t...
27 Jul, 2016, 05.38 PM IST
Per capita external debt up 17.55 per cent at Rs 21,493The per capita external debt was estimated at Rs 18,283 in 2012-13 and Rs 21,493 in 2013-14," Minister of State for Finance Nirmala Sithara...
15 Jul, 2014, 04.33 PM IST
An NRI should be made Overseas Indian Affairs Minister: Sanjay PuriAn NRI should be made the Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs in the next government, a leading organisation of Indian-Americans has said ...
27 Apr, 2014, 11.29 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls drawing Punjabi NRIsOver a thousand Punjabi NRIs from several countries have arrived in their homestate to participate and canvass during the ongoing Lok sabha...
21 Apr, 2014, 07.53 PM IST
NRIs to vote for first time, 97% of 11,844 from KeralaKerala accounts for the bulk of the NRI voters at 11,488, while Punjab with 138 and Tamil Nadu with 112 come a far second and third, respec...
10 Mar, 2014, 11.03 AM IST
NRIs stay away from Punjab's real estate on eurozone crisisEurozone crisis seems to have hit real estate purchases in Punjab hard due to reluctance of NRI's from Europe to invest in the sector.
11 Nov, 2011, 10.55 AM IST
- NRI voting rights bill under examination: Government
Govt is in the process of finalising a proposal to replace the existing Emigration Act. Students going abroad to be registered | Indians sp...
15 Jul, 2009, 09.16 PM IST
- US slowdown influencing NRIs investment in India
Nearly 6mn Indians working abroad sent home $30bn during 2008 making India the top receiver of migrant remittances. But there's a decline n...
27 Dec, 2008, 10.30 PM IST