Vellore, Nov. 11: Minister for overseas Indian affairs Vayalar Ravi today said Indian youths would be “at the heart of the global talent war” in the coming years amid an ageing population in the West, reports our special correspondent.

In the US, it has been estimated that 500 of its biggest companies “will lose half their senior managers in the next 10 years”, Ravi told the 21st annual convocation of the Vellore Institute of Technology.

The minister, a former Youth Congress president, extolled young graduates to seize the opportunity. “You will be coveted by the best corporate companies,” he told a gathering of nearly 2,000.