US tech industry condemns Trump's immigration ban
PTI Silicon Valley's top executives, including India-born CEOs Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella, condemned President Donald Trump's immigration ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, voicing concern that the move could directly hit their own staffers and stop bringing great talent to the US.Executives from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Netflix, Tesla, Facebook, Uber and other top American companies slammed Trump's immigration order that sparked widespread protests across the US.Trump yesterday signed a sweeping executive order to suspend the arrival of refugees and impose tough new controls on travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as part of new measures to "keep radical Islamic terrorists" out of America.Condemning the move, Nadella, in a post on LinkedIn, said "As an ...
Indias Foreign Exchange Earnings from tourism up 20% in April Sep 2014
The Dollar Business Bureau | @TheDollarBiz Foreign Tourist Arrivals to India are up about 11.7% (y-o-y) in April - September 2014 India’s Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEE) from tourism in the first half of FY2014-15 stands at Rs.54,170 crore (about $9 billion), which is up almost 20% compared to Rs.45,275 crore (about $7.66 billion) earned in the corresponding period last year. According to India’s Ministry of Tourism, the total number of tourist arrivals (Foreign Tourist Arrivals or FTAs) during April-September 2014 has increased to 30.53 lakh, up about 11.7% from 27.33 lakh recorded during the same period last year. The top source countries in September 2014 include: Bangladesh (14.79%), USA (11.88%), UK (8.33%), Sri Lanka (4.77%), Malaysia (4.18%), Japan (3.69%), Australia (3.54%), ...
