A non-resident Indian (NRI) is a citizen of India who has emigrated to a different country, a person of Indian origin born outside India, or a person of Indian origin who is resident outside India. Additional terms meaning the same thing are Overseas Indian and Expatriate Indian, and often includes Indian-born people who have become citizens of different countries. For tax purposes and other officialdom, the Indian authorities consider any Indian national who has been out of the country for more than 180 days in a year is an NRI. The success of the software boom in the 1990's created what seems a cultural emergence of NRI's in countries such as the UK and USA.There are now plenty of ways NRI's can stay in touch with home, both online and offline, such as:
Reddif India Abroad is a highly popular site which is targeted at NRI's, providing an online portal with news, blogs ,classifieds, shopping, cricket news and an email website frequently visited by NRI's.
The Times of India is India's largest news paper with a big online presence. They offer an epaper that is a scanned copy of the daily newspaper which is distributed in Indian metros like Delhi, Mumbai etc. They also circulate the Economic Times for business news and the stock market. The online sites are comprehensive and largely cater to the NRI customers around the world.
Sify has a portal reaching out to 1.5 million unique users, broadly spread across the United States, South East Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Its networks include NRI Channels, Samachar, Return2India and Bawarchi. Sify provides movies, finance, news, sports, astrology, food, games, shopping WWE, Sanacha, Videos, education, travel, and domain access.
Sulekha is a global, interactive, mobile and internet platform for connecting Indians worldwide and serves them through a portfolio of industry-leading services including Classifieds, Yellow Pages Business Search, Events and Social Media reviews and participation. Currently, Sulekha serves an exponentially growing online and mobile member base of 6.2 million in over 50 cities in India, US and elsewhere.
The Indian Express has a USA in tabliod version available - The Indian Express North American Edition (TIENA) and fills a need for Indians wanting to connect to their motherland and the cummunities in their particular region.
The Times of India is India's largest news paper with a big online presence. They offer an epaper that is a scanned copy of the daily newspaper which is distributed in Indian metros like Delhi, Mumbai etc. They also circulate the Economic Times for business news and the stock market. The online sites are comprehensive and largely cater to the NRI customers around the world.
Sify has a portal reaching out to 1.5 million unique users, broadly spread across the United States, South East Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Its networks include NRI Channels, Samachar, Return2India and Bawarchi. Sify provides movies, finance, news, sports, astrology, food, games, shopping WWE, Sanacha, Videos, education, travel, and domain access.
Sulekha is a global, interactive, mobile and internet platform for connecting Indians worldwide and serves them through a portfolio of industry-leading services including Classifieds, Yellow Pages Business Search, Events and Social Media reviews and participation. Currently, Sulekha serves an exponentially growing online and mobile member base of 6.2 million in over 50 cities in India, US and elsewhere.
The Indian Express has a USA in tabliod version available - The Indian Express North American Edition (TIENA) and fills a need for Indians wanting to connect to their motherland and the cummunities in their particular region.
