JALANDHAR: Five persons were booked for allegedly raping and threatening two sisters at their residence in Nakodar area of the district.The incident came to light when two sisters in their complaint to police on Sunday said that on Saturday evening they along with their mother were taken to an NRI’s residence for preparing food, by Charanjit Singh, driver of the NRI Jasbir Singh. The complainant alleged...
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Indian diaspora has made a comeback in a big way to park its savings withlocal banks. Emigrants have more than doubled the money parked with variousIndian banks during April-September ’09.Indian banks havemobilised $2.7 billion during April-September’09 from non-resident Indians(NRIs) against inflows worth $1.1 bn in the year-ago period, Reserve Bank ofIndia’s (RBI) latest data released on Thursday...
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the Global Goans convention spending a justified move, in the time when many retrenched Goans are suffering and fighting a battle of their own? And is the NRI Goa cell really reaching out to the NRI Goans in the true sense of the termFORMER FEDERAL minister of state for foreign affairs Eduardo Faleiro’s entourage will dock in Oman for two days for the Global Goans convention in the first week of this...
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India!Chandigarh - The Punjab Government will host an international Punjabi NRI sammelan at Chandigarh and Jalandhar on January 5 and 6, respectively, next year.A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here today.A committee had also been constituted to identify prominent NRIs to be honoured at the function. The NRI Sabha,...
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MUMBAI: The Indian diaspora has made a comeback in a big way to park its savings with local banks. Emigrants have more than doubled the money parked with various Indian banks during April-September ’09. Indian banks have mobilised $2.7 billion during April-September’09 from non-resident Indians (NRIs) against inflows worth $1.1 bn in the year-ago period, Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) latest data released...
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Kochi, Nov 12: N Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu newspaper, will get this year's K R Narayanan award for the valuable contribution he has rendered towards print journalism.The award has been instituted by the K R Narayanan Foundation in memory of the late President.Another prestigious award of the Foundation Pravasi Ratna will go to M A Yousaf Ali, a prominent NRI businessman.Talking to newspersons...
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District Congress leader Mangati Gopal Reddy, who locked horns with the TUDA Chairman and the ex-officio TTD member C. Bhaskar Reddy has fired yet another salvo at his rival alleging that the multi-crore ‘NRI Township’ project, which the TUDA has taken up along with a private company, is fraught with irregularities and ‘kickbacks’. He has also sent a detailed letter in this connection to Chief Minister...
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Andhra Pradesh Minister for Higher Education and NRI Affairs D Sridhar Babu today said the state government was planning to establish a welfare fund in consultation with the Centre for the welfare of NRIs, who were in distress.Inaugurating the new office premises of the Protector of Immigrants in the city here today, he said the state government would also consult Telugu Associations all over the world,...
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Andhra Pradesh government is planning to create a fund for the welfare of NRIs from the state.Under the proposed NRI Fund, help will be provided to the workers in despair, especially those in the Gulf.Minister for Higher Education and NRI Affairs D. Sridhar Babu Friday said the central and state governments will contribute to the fund. The individuals and associations of Telugu NRIs in different parts...
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Ahmedabad, Aug 9 : A 43-year-old non - resident Indian (NRI) died of swine flu early Sunday morning at the City Civil Hospital here, registering the first death by H1N1 virus in Gujarat.With this, the country has seen four deaths from swine flu and the number of infected cases rising to 782.On Saturday, 53-year-old Fahmida Panwala from Mumbai and 42-year-old teacher Sanjay Tukaram Kokre from Pune had...
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