2.5 million Indians make US their home

WASHINGTON: Stating with no more than 700 persons moving from India to the US between 1820 and 1900, the ethnic Indian community in America has grown to 2.5 million in 2007, according to the report, Emigration, Immigration, and Diaspora Relations in India, released  by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC.
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$45 billion as remittances to India, fall predicted in 2009: World Bank

With migrant workers facing job losses, anti-migrant sentiment and even violence in the deepening global financial crisis, World Bank researchers predict remittances will fall to $290 billion in 2009, from last year’s high of $305 billion.
Remittances flowing to developing countries from Russia, South Africa, Malaysia and India are “especially vulnerable to the rolling economic crisis”, [...]

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India asks US for more work visas

NEW DELHI: The Indian government has asked the US to increase the number of work visas (H1-B and L1) and ensure that there be no legislation to prevent companies from applying for such visas. India has also asked the US government to expedite action on a totalisation agreement to avoid double taxation on Indian workers [...]

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15,125 Indians granted UK citizenship in 2006: EU

12 Dec 2008
LONDON: More foreigners were granted citizenship in Britain than in any other European Union country in 2006, according to latest figures
released by Eurostat, EU’s statistics body.
Of the 154,000 foreign nationals granted British citizenship in 2006, Indians accounted for 15,125. Pakistan nationals granted British citizenship numbered 10,260.
Only a fraction of new Britons came from [...]

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Fuel conservation is not for Bangaloreans

Even as the decibel levels on issues like Energy Usage, Emissions, Global Warming, Climate Change are on the rise globally, a survey among car-owning Bangaloreans has rather worryingly revealed that Fuel Conservation is not yet a focus area for many. In a survey where most of those surveyed earned between 20-40 Thousand Rupees per month, [...]

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