Voting rights by next general elections and social security to tide over economic distress were the highlights of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurances to non-resident Indians Friday as he asked the vast diaspora to tap the opportunities their country of origin now offers.

The Gulf will remain a 'dream destination' for Indians and there is no serious impact of the global economic slowdown in the Middle East, save for some problems in the construction industry in Dubai, well-known NRI businessman M.A. Yusuff Ali said here.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday told overseas Indians that India will quickly return to a sustained high growth path of 9-10 percent and sought new avenues of partnership with the diaspora.

A 'viable solution' has been found to protect the interests of those who have invested in projects of Maytas Properties, the real estate company promoted by the family of former Satyam owner B. Ramalinga Raju, Minister for Corporate Affairs Salman Khurshid said Thursday.

After the Gulf nations, Europe is emerging as the next window of opportunity for Indian workers and the country would do its bit to promote and protect their interests, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi has said.

About 264,000 people from South Asia have lost jobs in the Middle-East on account of the global meltdown, city-based think tank Centre for Development Studies (CDS) has found.

Visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Wednesday said that the Punjabi community settled in his country had contributed to its development and acknowledged them as 'partners in progress'.

Kolkata: The US Congress is likely to address the immigration reform policies 'in future', US assistant secretary of state for consular affairs Janice L. Jacobs said on Thursday.She said

Any bail-out plan for Satyam, which reported a Rs 7,000-crore fraud a couple of days ago, will have to come from the Centre and not the state, said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajashekara Reddy.

Ramalinga Raju, earlier hailed as the poster boy of the Indian IT industry, is now being called a liar, conman, fraudster… Trouble began for the IT major after the aborted bid of Maytas and the