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Karnataka CM meets Theresa May Siddaramaiah prevailed upon May to grant time-bound visas for Indian software engineers IANS, BENGALURU
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arnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urged British Prime Minister Theresa May to review the new immigration policy and relax visa rules for Indian techies and students pursuing higher studies in Britain. “I request you to review the new policy and restore the 20,800 pound salary threshold under the intra-company transfer, as the movement of skilled technology workers should be seen as a trade priority than an immigration issue,” Siddaramaiah told May at a
Indian elected to International Law Commission
bilateral meeting. Under the new visa rules the British Home Office recently announced, skilled IT workers applying for visa under the tier-2 intra-company transfer (ICT) category would be required to meet 30,000 pound salary threshold after November 24. Noting that temporary placement of skilled people in Britain provided a major economic boost, with negligible impact on net migration, Siddaramaiah said the vibrant IT industry in the state relied upon an effective immigration policy in Britain without barriers. Siddaramaiah also prevailed
upon May to grant time-bound visas for Indian software engineers to work on projects in Britain and return to India. “Our IT professionals and software engineers are not looking for immigration visas but for projects, which are global operationally,” said state Industries Minister R.V. Deshpande on the occasion. Siddaramaiah also told May that 15 per cent of British firms in India were located in Karnataka employing 23,000 people. The British firms are in ICT (Information & Communication Technology), aerospace, health and life science sectors in the state cap-
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May being felicitated by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah during bilateral meeting in Bengaluru. (Photo: IANS)
italizing on the bright talent The Chief Minister also sought investments from British firms in developing smart cities in the state. Karnataka has skilled workforce, technical expertise and an industrial ecosystem for aerospace, automobiles, IT, biotech, pharma and life sciences. The state has recently
Capturing success of Indians in Europe
now calls Europe its home. With the Indian diaspora in the EU estimated to be six million plus or about 20 percent of the total population, the concept was given
a go-ahead to feature and highlight the respectively little known aspects of Indians in Europe, who have become an “integral part of the community.” Titled the “New Homelands: The Indian diaspora in the European Union”, the photo exhibition is on display at the Indian Habitat Centre from October 20 to November 7. It will then travel to Mumbai and will be hosted at the Piramal Gallery. In September 2016, three award-winning Indian photo-journalists -- Paroma Mukherjee, Kounteya Sinha and Shome Basu - criss-crossed Europe on a monthlong tour to explore the lives of the Indian diaspora in their adopted homelands.
A total of 22 people were injured in the tornado, which struck late Sunday, causing the Rome-Civitavecchia train service to be suspended and a section of the Aurelia state highway to be closed.
Schools were closed on Monday to allow checks to be carried out on the buildings and a clean-up operation was underway in Ladispoli and other locations hit by the whirlwind.
KAVITA BAJELI-DATT, NEW DELHI
H UNITED NATIONS: India’s Aniruddha Rajput has been elected by the UN General Assembly to the International Law Commission (ILC). Rajput received 160 votes outpolling the other nine Asian candidates vying for the seven ILC seats for the region. Among them, Japan’s candidate got 148 votes and China’s 146. A total of 34 candidates were elected to five-year terms on the Geneva-based body that works on developing and codifying international law. In his early 30s, Rajput will be the youngest member of the Commission. Rajput, who practices before the Indian Supreme court, was the lawyer for the Jammu and Kashmir Study Centre’s controversial suit filed last year challenging Article 35A of the Constitution that allows state governments to give special rights and privileges to its permanent residents that are not available to other citizens. —IANS
signed an agreement to set up a 400-acre British Health City at Dharwad in the state’s northwest region. Several Karnataka-based firms, including Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Dynamatic Technologies, Biocon and Microlabs expand their operations and generate hundreds of jobs in Britain.
ailing from Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, Gautam came to Antwerp some 30 years ago. He now owns a number of diamond outlets in Europe and many of the duty free-outlets at the European airports. A hotelier and a Belgian chocolate retailer, he is a known philanthropist. Micky Sehgal arrived in Italy in June 1980 with just $500 in his pocket. Today, he is known as the Curry King and owns one of Rome’s most famous Indian restaurants — Maharja’s — and has an annual turnover of over 1.5 million euros (Rs 11 crore). Gautam and Micky are some of the prominent Indian diaspora
Micky Sehgal owns one of Rome’s most famous Indian restaurants. (Photo: Facebook)
members that have been profiled and photographed by three Indian photographers who through their lens captured the lives and enlivening stories of the community that
Tornado kills Indian in Italy’s Lazio town IANS, ROME
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n Indian and an Italian were killed in a tornado on the outskirts of Rome that uprooted trees, overturned cars and damaged buildings, officials said. Homeless farm laborer Surinder Singh was killed in the Lazio coastal town of Ladispoli by a piece of masonry that was blown off an apartment building. Singh, 47 did not regain consciousness and died of massive
head injuries on his way to hospital in an ambulance. The tornado claimed a second victim in the town of Cesano, north of Rome, where an uprooted tree fell onto a garage, crushing to death 74-year-old former soldier Fernando Fiorese inside his car. A 25-year-old man in Ladispoli was hospitalized in a critical condition after the tornado blew him off his feet and hurled him against a large plate glass shop window, causing it to shatter.