Sri Lanka will ban entry to most travellers from six southern African countries from Sunday, after a potentially more contagious new coronavirus variant called Omicron was identified in South......
The UK's health authorities have confirmed that a new and ‘most significant’ variant of COVID-19 is officially under investigation in the country as the government on Friday added six......
The home ministry will extend e-tourist visa scheme to 37 more countries from Friday, taking the total number of beneficiary countries to 150. The new 37 countries included in e-Tourist visa scheme......
A year after the Narendra Modi government took charge India still finds itself among nations that face a high risk of terror and political violence. The 2015 Terrorism and Political......
US dollars. Photograph: Reuters India will retain its top spot with $71 billion in remittances this year as remittances to developing countries are expected to reach $435 billion, an increase of......
The global economic slowdown appears to be blunting the benefit of the rupee’s depreciation on remittances this year: Non-resident Indians are likely to send $71 billion to the country,......
India will receive record $70 billion remittances in the year 2012, topping the list of developing countries which are expected to receive a total of $406 billion this year, the World Bank has......
This summer it is destination Africa for India Inc.Political leaders, industrialists and businessmen are increasingly looking to tap the resource-rich countries of the world's second largest......
India has been ranked in the bottom half among 134 countries in terms of gender equality, in WEF's latest ranking that assessed the distribution of resources and opportunities among males and......
Didier Drogba can expect a hero's welcome when he returns to the continent for the start of the group phase of Africa's World Cup preliminaries at the weekend, a fortnight after his Champions......
Hamizan Amirul Ibrahim won the men's 56-kg weightlifting event to claim Malaysia's first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on Monday. Ibrahim set a new Games mark of 116 kg in the snatch to......