US has confirmed in a letter to Congresswoman Betty McCollum that Gujarat CM Narendra Modi will not be granted a visa to attend the World Gujarati Conference that is being held in New Jersey this weekend, the Coalition Against Genocide has said.
Indian doctors are once again suing the British government, this time accusing it of violating the spirit of a four-month-old court order by seeking to deny thousands the opportunity to live and work in Britain.
In a major policy change, Britain has decided to allow thousands of Indian professionals, who left the UK after being adversely affected by the November 2006 changes to immigration rules, to return and work here.
People entering the United Arab Emirates UAE will now have to pay a sum of Dh 500 (Rs 5,800) as visit visa fee, in line with a stricter visa regime being enforced by the gulf nation from August 2008.
The Reserve Bank of India will launch an IndiaPay credit card - an Indian version of the China UnionPay card - by the end of 2009.
The fate of thousands of Indian doctors, the backbone of Britain's state-run National Health Service, is to be decided at a ruling at the House of Lords on Wednesday over their work status.
The European Commission launched an anti-trust probe into payment card provider Visa Europe Ltd on Wednesday.
Visa Inc. raised $17.9 billion on Tuesday to complete the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) in US history and help prop up the wobbly financial services industry.
