According to immigration experts, prospects of future immigrants from India, especially Punjab, will be affected by major changes in immigration rules introduced by the Canada and Australia governments.

Both of the two countries have made announcements regarding new occupation lists and Australia have thrown the doors open again after a period of four months.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Australia has come up with a new Skill Occupation List (SOL), which will come into effect from July 1.

Leading immigration consultancy, World Wide Immigration Consultancy Services Ltd. (WWICS), chairman and managing director B.S. Sandhu told IANS that in the past, nearly 30,000 families used to migrate to Canada from India under the skilled worker programme.

‘India has been the second largest immigrant source to Canada. But with the changed scenario, Australia will soon become the number one destination for Indians seeking migration abroad,’ said Sandhu, a retired Indian Army colonel.

Under Australia’s new SOL, all major skilled professionals and people engaged in trade are included in the list applicable for federal and state sponsored programmes.

Sandhu said that all cases filed for Canada on or before June 25 will not be affected by the changes. Immigration cases pending since 2004 will now be cleared on top priority.

Canada will be accepting only 20,000 applications with a maximum of 1,000 applications for occupations for individuals applying under the new occupation list though applicants with a job offer are not restricted by this cap.

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The world of online marketing is on a changing spree these days. Consumers are empowering themselves to make informed decisions, thanks to social media.

Thoughts are shared, debated, and dissected all over the world before a decision is being taken. The online platform has been helping consumers to make choices on the global experience of a product. Times are changing and for the better for consumers.

From Economictimes.indiatimes.com:

What has changed?

To begin with, the source of control is shifting dramatically. It is moving more rapidly to the consumer. The internet is quite like swapping stories around a campfire, only fizzier and better. A recent study of 475 active online consumers revealed that 91% of consumers rely on the Web to get current news or information and about 60% personalise their home pages by adding features like specific content feeds or RSS. Nearly 70% of these consumers read blogs regularly and about 67% regularly watch videos online. The fact is that the internet promises and delivers the fizziest array of entertainment and the most intense amount of information on any subject, with a degree of informality that represents true freedom and liberation for the consumer.

And not just that. Today, considering that the young consumers are becoming increasingly immune to clichéd prime-time television advertising and prefer to spend intimate, one-to-one time with their PCs, truly makes the internet the ‘hottest real estate’. The global economy has also made the notion of personal intellectual space a reality. And while we still lounge with the Sunday paper, the almost second-by-second frenzied analysis of relationship status on Facebook profiles faces us as a stark truth.

It has, therefore, become important for brands to come out of their comfort zones and stand the test of scrutiny based on buzz, opinion polls, and evaluations.

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The Manmohan Singh government is under immense pressure from the United States after its request to provide relief to Dow Chemicals was answered by a warning. The US deputy National Security Advisor Michael Froman said that this could have “a chilling effect on the investment relationship” between the two countries.

Mr Ahluwalia briefed Mr Pulok Chatterjee, ED at World Bank, in a subsequent communication, about demand to go soft on Dow by Mr Froman.

From Economictimes.indiatimes.com:

In his e-mail to Mr Froman, Mr Ahluwalia had sought American help at the World Bank meeting. “I wonder if I can enlist your help on a matter relating to India’s borrowing from the World Bank. We are about to hit the arbitrary single borrower limit in IBRD which forces IBRD to cut new lending to India drastically unless the limit is relaxed. You may remember I had mentioned this as an issue when we discussed the IBRD capital increase in G-20. The matter is coming up in the IBRD board audit committee on Monday. The US is a member. The management wants a relaxation for India. The British prime minister was in Delhi yesterday. We raised it with him and he said that the UK ED would be instructed to support us. Could you speak to treasury to get the US ED on our side? At a time when countries are graduated out of soft assistance, it is normal to switch them to IBRD. But we are faced with a sharp reduction…Larry will fully understand. Hope you can help,” Mr Ahluwalia had said in his mail to Mr Froman.

In a subsequent communication, Mr Ahluwalia briefed Mr Pulok Chatterjee, ED at World Bank, about Mr Froman’s demand to go soft on Dow. While agreeing that quid pro quos are not unknown, he conceded that meeting the demand on Dow could be difficult. “There is always a quid pro quo though I fear on this we are helpless,” Mr Ahluwalia wrote to Mr Chatterjee on July 30. ET is possession of the copies of the e-mail.

Dow, in 1999, bought Union Carbide whose pesticide plant in Bhopal was responsible for leakage of poisonous gas killing more than 15,000 people.

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If you are striving to beat competition and create a distinctive niche in the professional world, these encouraging quotations can help you in more than just a way. These inspiring quotes will surely help you get and stay inspired to attain success.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. – Stephen Covey

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E. E. Cummings

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. – Frank A. Clark

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. – Lido Anthony Lee Lacocca

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage–pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically–to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good.’ – Stephen Covey

The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance. – Hugh Stevenson Tigner

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If you are planning to create a website, this YouTube video on domain names and search engine marketing (SEM) will help you in endless ways. The video will help you get insights on how domain names play a role in SEO, and strategic online marketing optimization.

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Looking for some easy and effective ways to be successful at office? If yes, you are at the right place and just about to access some of the most inspiring and interesting quotes for staying close to success.

The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. – Anthony Robbins

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. – Stephen Covey

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

My illusions didn’t have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve! – Marilyn Monroe

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas. – Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

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