TalentCorp's new MyHeart Global Connect council, unveiled in Singapore, targets Malaysia's global diaspora at large — a population that includes a substantial ethnic-Indian Malaysian community — as part of a national talent-retention strategy.
A new San Jose-based summit, Confluence 2027, is building a cross-border platform to connect Bengal-origin founders, technologists and investors with Silicon Valley capital — the latest example of India's regional diaspora networks organising around a specific state's innovation economy.
The UAE-India Business Council's 2026 programme, launched in Dubai, is pushing forward policy work on AI integration, infrastructure and supply chains, alongside continuing social-impact commitments including the UAE-India Friendship Hospital and a school project in Kashmir.
India's overseas direct investment data for January-March 2026 shows Singapore taking the top spot as a destination for Indian corporate capital, reflecting the city-state's continued role as India Inc.'s preferred base for regional and global expansion.
A data snapshot of the roughly 40,000 SMEs owned by Indian entrepreneurs in the UAE, and the remittance flows that connect the Gulf's largest expatriate community back to India.
An internal State Department memo confirms that online-presence screening — already mandatory for student, exchange and H-1B visa applicants — is being extended to cover foreign media representatives and additional nonimmigrant categories, part of a broader tightening of US visa vetting first introduced in 2025.
Washington has scrapped the decades-old 'Duration of Status' system for F, J and M visa holders, replacing it with fixed admission periods that take effect September 15, 2026 — a change that will require hundreds of thousands of Indian students to actively track and renew their status rather than rely on continuous enrolment.
Indian American business leader Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Fortune 500 manufacturer Flex, and her husband Jeevan Mulgund have pledged a $1 million permanent scholarship endowment for economically disadvantaged women students at BITS Pilani, Advaithi's alma mater.
Shafaq Mandha, a Gujarat-origin computer systems engineering graduate from Middlesex University Dubai, has been selected for ORBITA-26, an international satellite mission that will send her to Moscow to represent the UAE at the project's launch.
Nottingham Trent University has marked the graduation of almost 250 Indian students from its 2025/26 cohort, reinforcing the UK institution's standing as a leading destination for Indian talent amid a competitive global market for international education.