Fresh News

·         NRI police stations were launched at as many as six places across Punjab state in India.

 

·         Commuters in Kerala will by next month be able to track any of the 30000 private buses that ply on the state roads thru SMS/Internet thanks to a tie up of Private Bus Association with a

 

·         INDIAN job seekers have been advised in Kerala by Bahrain government not to fall into the trap of unscrupulous recruiting agents.

 

·         India and Bahrain will sign a labour agreement in June to facilitate labour mobility and manpower development, a ministry of overseas Indian affairs (MOIA) official said.

 

·         The Australian government has made changes to its visa system so Indian students studying there will automatically be eligible to work part time during their courses.

 

·         Owners of India restaurants in UK are struggling to deliver orders because of an acute staff shortage which is the result of the new immigration rules that prevents them from recruiting chefs from India.

 

·         British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell is likely to announce India Gate in Vancouver, Canada.The Gate is to be built in the city's Punjabi Market at a cost of C$3 million and is expected to be ready in time for the Winter Olympics in the city in 2010.

 

·         Reserve Bank of India governor Y V Reddy speaking at a World Leaders' Forum at Columbia University New York, stated that the annual contribution by way of remittances by NRIs is about three percent of the GDP. These are in addition to the export of services particularly software which is of the same order.

 

·         Qatar Airways announced plans to operate scheduled flights to Kozhikode in Kerala from June 15, 2008.Dubai-based Emirates Airline yesterday announced operation to Calicut airport in north Kerala from July 1.RAK Airways, fourth national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), started daily direct flights from the Karipur airport (Calicut airport) to Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE from April 23.

 

·         Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan will lay the foundation stone of an eight-storeyed shopping complex on the KSRTC premises in Angamaly.The Kerala Transport Development Financial Corporation (KTDFC) will construct the shopping complex under the BOT system spending around Rs 30 crore.

 

·         The Kerala government banned the use of all varieties of plastic materials below 50 microns in thickness in the state effective from 21st of April 2008.

 

·         Kerala Tourism Minister K.C.Venugopal informed the state assembly that Kovalam, Munnar, Kumarakom and Fort Kochi have been declared as special tourist zones under the Kerala Tourism (Conservation and Preservation of Areas) Bill, 2005.