Friday, December 21, 2007

Fresh News

  • Central Minister Vayalar Ravi said India was in the process of establishing a University to provide world class higher education to PIO (Persons of Indian Origin)/NRIs.

  • Indian-born Mahender Murlidhar Sabhani, 51, and his wife, Indonesian-born Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 45, were each convicted of all charges in a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labour.

  • India is now experiencing a reverse brain-drain with its well resourced hospitals with state-of-the-art facilities wooing back a sizable number of NRI doctors, who worked with the National Health Service of Britain for years.

  • In Kerala, 6000 members have signed up in two weeks for the newly formed All Kerala Drinkers' Welfare Association. Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala has the dubious distinction of the highest per capita consumption of alcohol in the country,

  • A hotel in Kerala has set out to bake its way into the record books. Uday Samudra Leisure Resort here will make the world's largest cake on Christmas Eve

  • Held guilty of modern day slavery and awaiting sentences, Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani, a wealthy NRI business couple are set to lose their million-dollar house in Long Island USA. A jury has unanimously decided that mansion of India born Mahender, 51, and Indonesia-born Varsha, be forefieted to Government.

  • According to Patel, who is an NRI from UK, there is a huge market for the repair of laptops and ACi's centres would act as vertically integrated service. ACi set to launch laptop for 15,000 IRS.

  • Hyderabad-based SKS Microfinance plans to reach out to 7000 poor households across Kerala by providing them with income generating loans.

  • Former UN Under-Secretary General and chairman of Dubai-based Afras Projects India Shashi Tharoor signed an agreement on Wednesday to start a finishing school in Kerala for the young software professionals at Technopark.

  • If you want to get rice at a discount now in Kerala, look for it at a cooperative bank. The state's cooperation department has started selling rice through cooperative banks to hold down the spiralling price of the grain in the state.

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