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Last Updated: May 15, 2007 - 7:22:41 PM |
India Business
NRI ties up with London firm for Bengal mini-townships
Kolkata, May 14 - Foreign investment in the booming real estate sector of West Bengal gets a boost with a London-based company joining hands with an NRI entrepreneur to invest $20 million in two mini-townships here.
May 14, 2007 - 12:37:18 PM
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India Diaspora
NRIs can gift cars online, no extra charge for blessings!
When an NRI buys his first new car on returning to India, he knows that he has made it.
May 14, 2007 - 10:13:05 AM
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India Diaspora
Jalandhar man to make history in Britain
Dakoha -, May 14 - This fairly prosperous village on the outskirts of Punjab's bustling city of Jalandhar will have its resident, Harjit Gill, create a history of sorts May 21 when he takes over as mayor of Gloucester city in Britain.
May 14, 2007 - 8:27:35 AM
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India Business
Raje seeks foreign investment for Rajasthan
Jaipur, May 13 - Inaugurating India Festival 2007 in Dubai, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has invited the international business community to invest in her state.
May 13, 2007 - 5:18:18 PM
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India Diaspora
On an Indian medical genius, now almost forgotten
New Delhi, May 13 - An Indian from Andhra Pradesh in the 1940s pioneered path-breaking research in the US in biochemistry, helping to bring to humankind some lifesaving drugs widely used today. The admirers of Yellapragada SubbaRow, a name very few Indians would be familiar with, say he deserves a place in the pantheon of top scientists in the land of his birth.
May 13, 2007 - 12:36:50 PM
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India Diaspora
IIT alumnus takes software to battlefront and beyond
Bangalore, May 13 - An Indian expatriate trained at the Indian Institute of Technology --Kharagpur is playing a crucial role in taking software to the battlefront.
May 13, 2007 - 9:57:56 AM
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India Business
Singapore keen to invest in Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad, May 11 - The government of Singapore Thursday showed keen interest in exploring the possibilities of making huge investments in Andhra Pradesh, especially in the areas of construction, port development, industrial parks and biotechnology.
May 11, 2007 - 9:14:15 PM
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India Diaspora
Crisis group set up to deal with Uganda-like situation
New Delhi, May 10 - The external affairs ministry has formed a crisis management group to prevent targeting of Indians in foreign countries as it recently happened in Uganda where an Indian was killed in racial violence.
May 10, 2007 - 6:29:23 PM
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India Diaspora
Air crash: Ministry in touch with Indian mission in Nairobi
New Delhi, May 9 - The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs - is in touch with the Indian High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya, to ascertain the arrangements being made regarding travel and accommodation in Kenya and Cameroon of the relatives of those Indians killed in an air crash in southern Cameroon.
May 9, 2007 - 5:56:31 PM
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India Diaspora
India, UAE to discuss welfare of Indian workers
New Delhi, May 9 - The first meeting of a joint committee formed on the welfare of Indian workers in the United Arab Emirates - will be held in Abu Dhabi Thursday.
May 9, 2007 - 2:34:24 PM
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India Business
YSR calls for greater investment in agriculture
Hyderabad, May 9 - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy told the World Agricultural Congress in the US that growth in agriculture could not be sustained without a second green revolution and farmers' welfare.
May 9, 2007 - 12:34:16 PM
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India Business
Andhra Pradesh chief minister woos investors in US
Hyderabad, May 9 - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has invited multinational companies, industrialists and experts in the US to invest in the state.
May 9, 2007 - 11:28:39 AM
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India Diaspora
Discussing gender, sexuality through a film festival
New Delhi, May 9 - The Indian capital is set to host a film festival on 'gender and sexuality, identities and spaces' starting May 12, with works of several artistes from different parts of the world.
May 9, 2007 - 9:13:11 AM
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India Diaspora
Indian American boy gets liver, kidney in rare surgery
New Delhi, May 8 - A 15-year-old Indian-American boy has undergone a successful simultaneous liver and kidney transplant from two separate live donors at a city hospital, which doctors claimed to be a surgical first in the world.
May 8, 2007 - 8:26:14 PM
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India Diaspora
NRI boy gets liver, kidney in rare surgery
New Delhi, May 8 - A 15-year-old Indian-American boy underwent a simultaneous liver and kidney transplant at a city hospital here, which the attending doctors claimed Tuesday was the first such in the world.
May 8, 2007 - 4:45:50 PM
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India Diaspora
Self-regulate, government tells recruitment agents for jobs abroad
New Delhi, May 8 - Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi has called upon recruiting agents - for workers seeking jobs abroad to go for self-regulation in order to keep the emigration process from India orderly and humane.
May 8, 2007 - 8:30:27 AM
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India Diaspora
Summer safaris and spirituality for NRIs
Unlike most NRIs who would not go to India during summer, Siddharth 'Sid' Verma landed in New Delhi this month. With temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius -, India is just too hot for holidays. But not for Sid and his three friends from Canada who love mountain climbing and dream of scaling Himalayan peaks. As they emerged from the New Delhi airport in the morning with their heavy equipment, a tour operator's driver greeted them and led them to a gleaming eight-seater, air-conditioned, luxurious mini-van.
May 8, 2007 - 8:14:02 AM
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India Business
Rajasekhara Reddy accorded warm welcome in Chicago
Hyderabad, May 7 - The mayor of Chicago and members of the Indian diaspora were among those who accorded a warm welcome to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Sunday when he arrived on a four-day visit to the US.
May 7, 2007 - 5:25:46 PM
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India Diaspora
Seven from Kerala are among 15 Indians onboard Kenyan jet
Thiruvananthapuram, May 6 - Seven people from Kerala are believed to be among the 15 Indians on board the Kenyan Airways plane that crashed in a rain forest near the Cameroon capital, Yaounde. Media reports say there were nine people from Kerala.
May 6, 2007 - 10:30:30 PM
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India Diaspora
Record number of candidates for diaspora scholarship scheme
New Delhi, May 5 - A record number of 223 students from the Indian diaspora will vie for the Scholarship Programme for Diaspora Children - 2007-08 awarded by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs - in an examination to be held in 15 countries Sunday.
May 5, 2007 - 5:54:15 PM
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India Business
Can NRIs celebrate India's trillion-dollar economy?
If an American NRI visits India now, his dollars will buy much less. This is because the Indian rupee has strengthened against the dollar since 2002, crossing the watershed of Rs.41 to one dollar last week.
May 5, 2007 - 8:53:48 AM
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India Diaspora
Bhopal gas victims upset with judgement,to seek review
Bhopal, May 4 - The Supreme Court's dismissal Friday of a petition seeking enhanced compensation for the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has disappointed many of those still suffering from the toxic after effects of the poisonous gas leak that killed thousands more than 22 years ago.
May 4, 2007 - 9:29:14 PM
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India Business
Uganda woos Indian investors, says Indians safe
New Delhi, May 4 - Uganda is a perfectly peaceful country and wants Indian entrepreneurs to invest there, according to an Ugandan delegation currently on a visit to India.
May 4, 2007 - 9:28:29 PM
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India Diaspora
Pricking the 'NRI groom' phenomenon
New Delhi, May 4 - An NRI man comes to India, chooses a bride who brings along an enormous dowry, promises to take her back as soon as he manages to sponsor her visa - and vanishes, never to return.
May 4, 2007 - 7:58:12 PM
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India Business
Indian's death in Uganda an aberration: Ugandan minister
New Delhi, May 4 - The recent death of an Indian in a riot in Uganda is an 'aberration' in what is otherwise a very peaceful country and harmonious society, according to a visiting Ugandan delegation.
May 4, 2007 - 4:46:56 PM
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India Diaspora
Indian killed in Uganda was at wrong place at wrong time
New Delhi, May 4 - Devang Rawal, the young Indian who was stoned to death April 12 by a mob in Uganda, was at the wrong place at the wrong time, according to the owner of the company for which he worked.
May 4, 2007 - 3:20:51 PM
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India Diaspora
Kuwait announces amnesty scheme, Indian mission ready
New Delhi, May 3 - The Indian embassy in Kuwait is making elaborate arrangements to deal with the large number of visitors who are coming to avail of an amnesty scheme announced by the Kuwait government.
May 3, 2007 - 6:56:21 PM
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India Diaspora
Emigration process to become easier with computerisation
New Delhi, May 3 - The process of emigration from India will become easier as the government has begun computerising the eight offices of Protector of Emigrants -.
May 3, 2007 - 3:31:28 PM
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India Diaspora
Kerala doctor in California bags NECO award
Thiruvananthapuram, May 3 - A California-based Keralite doctor has bagged this year's Ellis Island Medal of Honor, established by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organisations - in the US.
May 3, 2007 - 11:36:13 AM
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Indians truly global citizens: US poet
New Delhi, May 3 - This may be US poet Erica Funkhouser's first visit to India, but it has confirmed her opinion - garnered in interactions back home with Asian students - that Indians are truly global citizens.
May 3, 2007 - 8:22:34 AM
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India Diaspora
Time for Indian, British lawyers to join hands: UK minister
New Delhi, May 2 - Lawyers from India and Britain can join hands to compete for international contracts together, says Britain's Constitutional and Legal Affairs Minister Catherine Ashton.
May 2, 2007 - 4:05:17 PM
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India Business
'Corporates benefit from taxpayer but shy of social duties'
New Delhi, May 1 - Madhu Goud Yaskhi, often dubbed an 'NRI MP' as he left a flourishing law practice in New York to enter parliament, has criticised corporates for enjoying 'all kinds of benefits from taxpayers' money' while shying away from extending even basic facilities to poorer sections of society.
May 1, 2007 - 1:45:31 PM
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India Diaspora
Education in India helped me: Abel Prize winner
New Delhi, April 30 - India-born Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan, winner of this year's Abel Prize in Mathematics, has acknowledged that his Indian educational background helped him win the award.
Apr 30, 2007 - 4:17:11 PM
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India Diaspora
Where a number plate is worth a car's price
Chandigarh, April 29 - A whopping Rs.480,000 might seem like the price of a mid-segment car on the Indian road. But that was the money shelled out for a VIP number plate - CH 04 0001 - in Chandigarh!
Apr 29, 2007 - 8:24:25 AM
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India Diaspora
Survey of non-resident Keralites on in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram, April 29 - A survey covering 50 households each from 200 select villages is being conducted in Kerala to find out the number of the non-resident Keralites -.
Apr 29, 2007 - 8:24:02 AM
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India Diaspora
NRI duped of Rs.55 million
New Delhi, April 28 - A non-resident Indian - woman from the United States filed a complaint in a city court after the Delhi Police refused to register a case against a prominent businessman for allegedly duping her of Rs.55 million.
Apr 28, 2007 - 6:14:34 PM
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India Business
NRIs backbone of Kerala's Congress-backed channel
Thiruvananthapuram, April 28 - Two firms promoted by non-resident Keralites -, apart from several other individual NRKs, will form the financial backbone of the Congress-supported Malayalam TV channel Jai Hind TV, which will go on air in July.
Apr 28, 2007 - 4:00:57 PM
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India Diaspora
Becoming an NRI at any cost. Is it worth it?
Now even an Indian MP is involved in smuggling out Indians to make them NRIs. The basic details of the sensational news of an Indian MP trying to smuggle out a woman and a teenager on the diplomatic passports of his wife and son from India to Canada are well known in the NRI world by now. But there is a new twist to the immigration ring as illegal human trafficking usually involves shady travel agents and smugglers - now 'an Honourable Member' is also a partner in this crime.
Apr 27, 2007 - 8:02:52 AM
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India Diaspora
Trafficking: Airlines asked for travel information about MPs
New Delhi, April 26 - The Delhi Police Thursday sent notices to five airlines including three international airlines to disclose travel information about the MPs allegedly involved in an international human trafficking racket, a senior official said.
Apr 26, 2007 - 4:41:30 PM
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India Diaspora
NRI's homework clicks on online tutorials
New Delhi, April 25 - Tuitions have just gone online courtesy an NRI mother's initiative to help schoolchildren in the US and Canada who can, at the click of a mouse, now learn maths or English and finish their homework.
Apr 25, 2007 - 8:41:10 AM
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India Diaspora
36 Indians deported from Dubai, Indian mission contacted
New Delhi, April 24 - India has contacted its mission in Dubai after reports here said 36 Indians had been deported to the country for travelling on fake visas.
Apr 24, 2007 - 6:24:11 PM
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India Diaspora
Sick Indian dies in Maldives, mission flayed
New Delhi, April 24 - Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi Tuesday expressed the hope that Indian diplomatic missions would be more sensitive to problems of Indians, after a Kerala man who suffered from meningitis died in the Maldives.
Apr 24, 2007 - 12:54:06 PM
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India Diaspora
NRI brings to India effective pain relief therapy
New Delhi, April 24 - An acute ankle and knee pain that refused to go for a decade, but was miraculously cured by non-invasive electromagnetic therapy, has prompted an NRI to bring the Scandinavian pain relief technique to India.
Apr 24, 2007 - 8:12:47 AM
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India Diaspora
NRI doctor protests patient's death in Kolkata hospital
Kolkata, April 23 - A US-based doctor has lodged a complaint with the West Bengal Human Rights Commission - against a private hospital here after a patient died because the management allegedly stopped medication due to non-payment of dues.
Apr 23, 2007 - 2:01:57 PM
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India Business
Of training B-school faculty to impart entrepreneurial skills
Bangalore, April 23 - Indian American venture capitalist Romesh Wadhawani has launched an initiative to train B-school faculty here in imparting entrepreneurial skills - a project India Inc has given its enthusiastic thumbs up.
Apr 23, 2007 - 9:51:31 AM
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India Business
Of training B-school faculty to impart entrepreneurial skills
Bangalore, April 23 - Indian American venture capitalist Romesh Wadhawani has launched an initiative to train B-school faculty here in imparting entrepreneurial skills - a project India Inc has given its enthusiastic thumbs up.
Apr 23, 2007 - 9:51:31 AM
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India Business
Mauritius to observe Bihar Day
Patna, April 22 - In a move to showcase Bihar in Mauritius, a Bihar Day will be celebrated in that country in June to mark the contributions of Bihar origin people in the making of the island nation.
Apr 22, 2007 - 2:39:15 PM
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India Diaspora
NRI Facilitation Cell set up in Bhopal
Bhopal, April 20 - A new cell has been set up at the Madhya Pradesh chief minister's office here to facilitate coordination between NRIs and the Madhya Pradesh government, said official sources.
Apr 20, 2007 - 4:23:17 PM
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India Business
Kerala team to visit Middle East to seek investment
Thiruvananthapuram, April 19 - Kerala is sending a high level delegation to the Middle East next month to scout for investors who can help set up industries in the state.
Apr 19, 2007 - 3:29:24 PM
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India Diaspora
Passports issued to Indian professor's family
Chennai, April 18 - The grief-stricken parents and relatives of G.V. Loganathan, the Indian professor killed in Monday's Virginia Tech shootout, Wednesday received passports and visas for their US visit to attend his last rites.
Apr 18, 2007 - 8:16:31 PM
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India Diaspora
Massacre won't discourage Indian students: US counsellor
New Delhi, April 18 - The massacre at Virginia Tech that claimed 33 lives, including that of two Indians, will not jeopardise campus life in American universities nor should it stop Indian students from pursuing higher education there, a US embassy official said here Wednesday.
Apr 18, 2007 - 4:54:50 PM
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India Diaspora
Mumbai girl Minal confirmed dead in US shootout
Mumbai, April 18 - Indian student Minal Hiralal Panchal, who had been missing after a gunman went on a shooting spree at the Virginia Tech University, has been confirmed dead by the Indian embassy in the US.
Apr 18, 2007 - 2:03:15 PM
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India Diaspora
For Uganda NRIs: A grim reminder of Idi Amin's dark days
'The worst NRI nightmare is Idi Amin's Uganda,' recalled Shanti Lakhani in Leicester, UK. 'A glimpse of the same horror was repeated last week.' No matter where they live, all non-resident Indians - recoil with panic at the brutal treatment by the Ugandan despot Amin. The recent violent demonstrations near Jinja and in the capital Kampala were a reminder of the dark days of the Amin era from 1971-1979 during which the dictator ordered all Indians to leave Uganda in 1972. This mass expulsion from their homes and businesses without taking any assets remains the ultimate disaster for all NRIs.
Apr 18, 2007 - 10:01:27 AM
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India Diaspora
Norms eased for employing foreigners in media outlets
New Delhi, April 17 - The Indian government Tuesday eased the norms for employing foreign and NRI media personnel, saying prior clearance for this was not necessary.
Apr 17, 2007 - 8:53:27 PM
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India Diaspora
Shocked family to go to US for Indian professor's last rites
Erode -, April 17 - Slain Indian professor G.V. Loganathan, who was among the 33 killed in a gory shooting spree at Virginia Tech University campus, wanted to come back to India next year. Now, his parents and brothers, still reeling with shock over his death, are preparing to go to the US Wednesday to attend his last rites.
Apr 17, 2007 - 6:53:52 PM
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India Diaspora
Rahul Khanna campaigns to save elephants
New Delhi, April 17 - Actor Rahul Khanna has joined the 'save the elephant' campaign and stars in the new anti-zoo ad made by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -.
Apr 17, 2007 - 11:18:30 AM
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India Diaspora
NRI arrested for wife's death in Bahrain
Hyderabad, April 16 - A non-resident Indian employed in Bahrain was Monday arrested in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam in connection with the death of his wife under suspicious circumstances.
Apr 16, 2007 - 4:18:04 PM
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India Diaspora
Anurag Kashyap upset with Deepa Mehta
Mumbai, April 16 - Writer-director Anurag Kashyap has accused Toronto-based filmmaker Deepa Mehta of stealing his credit in her Oscar-nominated film 'Water'.
Apr 16, 2007 - 9:42:04 AM
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India Diaspora
NRI marriages through Bollywood lens
'As a realistic depiction of Asian life in Britain, 'Namastey London' made us feel proud as NRIs,' said Chaman Lal Chaman, a well-known radio presenter and an Asian cultural leader in London. The Bollywood film deals effectively with the generation gap and the problems of Asian parents and has been popular in Britain because it uses laughter and satire to drive home its points, added Chaman.
Apr 15, 2007 - 11:26:08 AM
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India Diaspora
Shabana-starrer wins prestigious honour in New York
Mumbai, April 15 - Shabana Azmi and awards have almost become synonymous. So it comes as no surprise that her new film, 'Loins Of Punjab Presents', has won the best feature film honour at the 2007 First Run Festival in New York.
Apr 15, 2007 - 8:02:14 AM
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India Diaspora
India takes up issue of Indian's killing with Uganda
New Delhi/Kampala, April 14 - Two days after an Indian was stoned to death in Kampala by a mob protesting against a plan to set up a sugar factory in a virgin forest area, India Saturday took up the matter with Uganda and expressed concern over the security of Indians living in the East African country.
Apr 14, 2007 - 6:03:33 PM
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India Business
Bilimoria to expand Cobra beer operations, launch wines
New Delhi, April 13 - After registering sales of one million cases of Cobra beer in India, London-based Lord Karan Bilimoria is setting up two new breweries in the country at an investment of $20 million and entering the wine business.
Apr 13, 2007 - 10:32:15 AM
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India Diaspora
Five NRIs duped of Rs.140 mn in Delhi
New Delhi, April 12 - Five non-resident Indian - doctors from the US were allegedly duped of Rs.140 million after they were induced for investment in a charitable trust run by a builder in the national capital, police said Thursday.
Apr 12, 2007 - 8:22:31 PM
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India Business
Canadian firm invests $4 bn in India's hotel sector
New Delhi, April 12 - An Indian Canadian's Vancouver-based company is to invest $4 billion - on creating 15,000 budget hotel rooms across India in collaboration with a global hospitality chain, it was announced Thursday.
Apr 12, 2007 - 6:59:57 PM
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India Diaspora
Cabinet approves labour MoU with UAE
New Delhi, April 12 - The Indian cabinet Thursday approved a pact with the United Arab Emirates - to safeguard the interests of the Indian workers in that country and to ensure their welfare.
Apr 12, 2007 - 6:53:54 PM
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India Diaspora
India signs MoU with Kuwait to protect workers
New Delhi, April 11 - India has signed a labour pact with Kuwait to ease problems faced by its nationals working in that country.
Apr 11, 2007 - 3:34:45 PM
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India Diaspora
Nepal ministerial group to quell Terai turmoil
Kathmandu, April 9 - With less than three months to go before the election, the Nepal government Monday moved to quell mounting turbulence in the Terai region by forming a ministerial team to begin negotiations with protesting groups and reconstituted a commission to probe a massacre in which 29 people were killed.
Apr 9, 2007 - 8:21:59 PM
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India Diaspora
Two robbers get life term for killing senior citizen
New Delhi, April 9 - The Delhi High Court has upheld a trial court verdict awarding life imprisonment to two robbers, who killed a senior citizen and father of a US-based expatriate Indian at his South Extension residence in south Delhi 17 years ago.
Apr 9, 2007 - 7:11:39 PM
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India Diaspora
US will have to pull out of Iraq: Time bureau chief
New Delhi, April 9 - Whether in three months or two years, the US will have to pull out from Iraq, and when that happens civil war in the war-ravaged country will spill out in the open, says Aparisim 'Bobby' Ghosh, the India-born Baghdad bureau chief of Time magazine.
Apr 9, 2007 - 2:33:27 PM
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India Business
Flow of emotions draw crowds to 'The Namesake'
New Delhi, April 9 - The flow of emotions in Mira Nair's 'The Namesake', which has Tabu and Irrfan Khan in pivotal roles, seems to have struck the right chord with the audience as they continue to flock theatres to catch the film even a month after its release.
Apr 9, 2007 - 9:36:33 AM
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India Business
Interest hike means twin benefits for NRIs
The hike in interest rates in India gives NRIs an opportunity to reap twin benefits.
Apr 8, 2007 - 8:58:55 AM
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India Business
Premier Indian B-school nurtures entrepreneurs
Hyderabad, April 7 - A premier Indian B-school has quietly changed the manner in which venture capitalists look at budding entrepreneurs by serving as a facilitator between the two to translate business models into reality.
Apr 7, 2007 - 10:14:33 AM
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India Diaspora
Mumbai to have integrated trauma care facility
New Delhi, April 7 - At least 100 hospitals in Mumbai will soon start an integrated trauma care facility to provide round the clock ambulance service and trauma care to patients on way to a hospital from an accident site.
Apr 7, 2007 - 7:35:13 AM
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India Diaspora
India, Kuwait to sign labour welfare pact
New Delhi, April 6 - Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi will visit Kuwait and Qatar for a weeklong visit during the course of which he will sign a landmark labour welfare pact with Kuwait.
Apr 6, 2007 - 3:03:13 PM
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India Diaspora
Court dismisses NRI doctor's petition under RTI
Kolkata, April 5 - The Calcutta High Court Thursday dismissed a plea under the Right to Information - Act filed by US-based Kunal Saha, who has sued five doctors for the death of his wife, on grounds that he is an NRI and thus not entitled to information under the newly enacted law.
Apr 5, 2007 - 5:55:13 PM
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India Diaspora
India, Nepal agree on border controls
New Delhi, April 2 - India Monday discussed with Nepal the turbulence brewing in the Terai region that is in the grip of an agitation by Madhesis, people of Indian origin living in that area, and agreed on the need to strengthen border controls.
Apr 2, 2007 - 10:30:01 PM
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India Diaspora
NRI accused of murder sent to judicial custody
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