Tag: business
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Paul Little: We’re a melting pot of cultures
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Growing up in Mt Roskill in the 1960s and 70s I was dimly aware, in my own childish way, that I was not living in the most exciting place in the world.The most notable thing about the suburb was the unusually high number of conservative…
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New business visa to attract talent and create jobs
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Michael Woodhouse | Immigration A new business visa will encourage migrants to set up high-quality businesses and create new jobs, according to Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse. “Starting today, the new Entrepreneur Work Visa will help New Zealand attract talented, well-connected business people to invest and grow businesses in New Zealand,”…
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India-born Rajat Gupta should pay $13.9m penalty, be banned for life, US regulator says
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Gupta’s lawyers have argued that instead of protecting the investing public, the injunctions imposed on him by the district court “serve only to punish and stigmatize Gupta”.
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Google faces up to 5bn CCI fine says cooperating in probe
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Google which is facing antitrust investigation in India by fair trade watchdog CCI can face a penalty of up to about 5 billion if it is found to have violated competition norms of the country
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Preet Bharara, Indian-origin actress to speak at Harvard Law School
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Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor Bharara graduated from Harvard College in 1990 and earned a degree from Columbia Law School in 1993.
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Indian-origin doctor’s role in patients’ deaths probed
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Police in Britain are investigating the deaths of a number of patients who were under the care of an Indian-origin surgeon.
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Indian-Americans to pay US $ 3.3 mn for overbilling
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An Indian-American owner of a billing firm and three others have agreed to pay US $ 3.3 million to resolve claims for overbilled nuclear stress tests.
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Indian-American Pentagon official to join thinktank
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Vikram Singh, the highest-ranking Indian-American at the Pentagon, is joining an eminent US thinktank after serving the Obama administration in various positions for over five years.
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Malaysian-Indian opposition leader found guilty of sedition
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A Malaysian-Indian opposition leader was on Friday found guilty of sedition by a court for questioning the decision of the sultan of an eastern state five years ago.
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NRI held for smuggling gold worth Rs 80 lakh
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An NRI, who allegedly tried to smuggle 2.4kg gold worth Rs 80 lakh, was arrested by Customs authorities at Rajiv Gandhi International (RGI) Airport at Shamshabad here.
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New Zealand court sentences Sikh leader for forging poll papers
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A Sikh leader has been sentenced by a New Zealand court to community detention and community work for forging poll documents in a bid to win a local body election three years ago.
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Indian-origin girl in Britain grows beard due to medical conditon
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An Indian-origin girl in Britain, who has been suffering from a rare condition causing excessive hair development on her face and body, has decided to stop cutting her hair after being baptized as a Sikh.
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US Sikh group challenges Congress party plea
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A US Sikh human rights group has challenged a motion filed by India’s Congress party for dismissing of a human rights violation case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh violence.
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India-born millionaire’s arrest shakes up UK politics
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The entrepreneur, who moved to the UK in 2002 is now based at a 5-million pound apartment in London’s posh Chelsea neighbourhood.
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Canada cricket captain Ashish Bagai retires after stellar career
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Canadian captain Ashish Bagai the face of Canadian cricket for more than a decade is retiring from the sport at the age of 31 Bagai who graduated last year from the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia with an MBA is starting a new job next month as a management…
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Business visa changes to create jobs & growth
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Michael Woodhouse | Immigration Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse has announced a new business visa policy to encourage migrants to set up high-quality businesses in New Zealand to help create local jobs and support economic growth. “New Zealand needs to attract talented, enterprising, well-connected business people to invest and grow businesses…
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Immigration advisers’ regime to be reviewed
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Michael Woodhouse | Immigration Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse has announced a review of the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, which regulates immigration advice and created the Immigration Advisers Authority (IAA) and the Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal. “The Act is now more than five years old and a review…
