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Tribals of Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala have struck a deal with German co-operative Ecoland Herbs and Spices to export the organic pepper.

 

The board of directors of the proposed Rs.15-billion Smart City project in Kerala decided that the work will start in October.

 

The Gandhi Legacy Month began at Union Square Manhattan to remember Mahatma Gandhi's message of non violence, peace and brotherhood.

 

Highly skilled persons and professionals wanting to migrate to the UK will have to apply for a visa under a new points based system that is now in force in India.The new system is expected to make the visa process easier for legitimate travellers and tougher for those intending to cheat the system.

 

India's booming economy has triggered a flood of inquiries from NRIs hunting for high growth jobs back home in India. Infrastructure, retail, capital markets and insurance are the sectors most sought after.

 

Some 100 Indian workers marched hundreds of miles from Mississippi to Washington to protest their slave like treatment in order to meet Indian envoy Ronen Sen and ask for a CBI probe into alleged human trafficking by recruiters and plead for steps to prevent abuse of workers under the H2B visa programme.

 

Indian doctors with post grad medical degrees from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can now practise in India in any public or private hospital. They can also be a faculty member in any medical college and teach under grad students.

 

US Authorities have issued a new rule prohibiting employers from filing more than one petition for a single employee in a fiscal year.Citizenship and Immigration Services known as the USCIS announced the rule that ensures companies filing H-1B petitions that are subject to numerical limits have equal chance to receive consideration for an H-1B worker with the current cap on new visas in the category at 65,000 per fiscal with a few exceptions.

 

Some 5.7 million Indians abroad sent back US$27 billion in 2007, making India the leading receiver of migrant remittances according to World Bank data.Workers from China($25.7 b), Mexico($25 b), the Philippines($17 b) and France(12.5 b) made up the rest of the top five.

 

The British government's plans that are afoot recommend the phasing out of the rights to vote now enjoyed by Indians and other Commonwealth citizens. The move is part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's initiatives to boost 'Britishness' in the 21st century. The plans come from a review conducted by Lord Goldsmith, Britain's former attorney general.

 

An NRI doctor who recorded his statement from America through video conferencing with the Delhi court for the first time in history, has opened up the possibility for others like him who are unable to go to India to attend legal proceedings.The Sessions Court recorded the doctor's statements from New Jersey USA over the VC in a case related to his divorce petition and legal wrangle with his estranged wife over the custody of their daughters.

 

Businessman Amrit Patel president of the India Cultural Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin complained that the Chicago mission has been illegally issuing passports to Indian nationals who sought political asylum in the US, and has been taking bribes of $3000 to 3500 for supporting documents and manufactured passports given to them.

 

India is rated as the sixth most popular country in the US while Pakistan and China are placed among the 10 most unpopular countries in a recent survey conducted by Gallup.

 

Fourteen Indian doctors who resigned from the Ministry of Health because of the lack of promotion opportunities and unsatisfactory wages, have been told they will have to forego their end of service benefits as their academic degrees have not been evaluated by the concerned Indian universities, and called illegals, given the non validation of their degrees.

 

Professor David Crystal one of the world's foremost experts and author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language has stated that there are more people speaking English in India than the rest of the native English speaking world. He raises the example of the call centres often answered by Indian voices and the impending economic growth of the country whose influence will touch the usage of Indian English.

 

Over 1000 magicians from across the country and abroad will participate at a four-day magic festival in Trivandrum from May 1.

 

Kerala has hoisted the ceremonial flag, known as 'Kodiyettam', to mark the beginning of the 'Thissur Pooram'.

 

Kannapuram panchayat in Kannur district dared to think differently, and has bagged a Kerala State Film Award. 'Kaliyorukkam' which won the award for the best children's film for 2007 was their project.