Indian team at the Olympics of Skills 2013

WorldSkills International Competitions 2013 Organized by the Amsterdam-based not-for-profit organization WorldSkills International,  is the largest vocational skills competition globally.

It takes place in a different country every two years and brings together over 1,000 young people, up to 22 years of age, from across the world to compete in a variety of skills ranging from welding to web designing. Competitors representing their countries, pitch their skills against the best of the best for gold, silver and bronze medals. This year it is being held from  02 – 07 July 2013, Leipzig, Germany. 

New UK visa rules to have negative impact on business

The proposed new UK visa rules as highly discriminatory and very unfortunate, these would lead to negative impact on business and tourism inflow from India to that country.

CII strongly feels that such blanket rules for visas will negatively affect not only businesses, especially small businesses, it will also further bring down the number of students going to the United Kingdom (UK) for higher studies and affect the tourism inflow from India to UK.

Besides, the new rules would also not help the cause of early conclusion of EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), for which both the parties are committed, the chamber observed.