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Marine Drive in Kochi is the costliest real estate property in Kerala.

 

The Kerala High Court has temporarily stopped the construction work at Vizhinjam International Harbour for two weeks.

 

Kerala has launched a new initiative, Malayalam Computing, to help people across the state operate computers in their mother tongue and thereby bridge the digital divide.

 

Kerala to develop Beypore and Azhikkal ports.

 

A House of Commons committee has been constituted to assess the impact of the new points based migration system introduced in Britain, that has impacted the three billion pound Indian restaurant and catering industry in the UK.

 

Sixteen Indian workers were arrested after they were found working illegally on a farm in Evesham, south west England.

 

The Oman government has agreed to permit thousands of Indians living illegally in the country to leave without paying fines.

 

The Kerala government has started their pending plan to issue photo IDs to Non Resident Keralites, and are launching the pilot scheme at Mankada Malappuram, in the state.

 

Government announced in Delhi that the government has selected the Manipal Academy of High Education (MAHE) to run the proposed Persons of Indian origin (PIO)/NRI University to be set up in Bangalore.

 

The government of Singapore has invited overseas Indians from South East Asia and the Pacific nations to hold a two day jamboree in October this year.

 

Of the 164,000 outsiders granted UK citizenship last year nine percent were Indians according to Home Office figures, making Indians the most favoured ethnic group in Britain.Figures released by the Home Office say that Indians are generally law abiding and enterprising, few are in jails compared to other ethnic groups.

 

A group of Indian workers are to launch a hunger strike in front of the White House - the residence of the US President in Washington DC to demand the Indian government protect their citizens from exploitation by American companies and harassment by US immigration authorities.

 

The government announced it will introduce E passports that will carry biometric information in a chip, in its step to check the misuse of passports.

 

India with its increasing number of millionaires is projected to be in the 8th position among the world's top 10 wealth centres by 2017, says a report by banking giant Barclays.

 

In its second phase of the overhaul of its immigration policy Britain introduced criteria that requires British employers to prove they cannot fill skilled posts with residents or European workers.

 

A 27 storey skyscraper in Mumbai that is to be the residence of Mukesh Ambani could well be the world's most expensive home at a price tag of US$2 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

 

Two million Keralites live abroad and one million temporary migrants, mostly construction labourers who make up the collective overseas workforce send home remittances that is changing lives in Kerala. Bottom line, it means one in three Keralites benefit by migrants according to a scholar with the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram. Gulf remittances form almost a third of Kerala's income, most of which is spent on housing or savings.Banks say NRIs are their top customers with more than a quarter of deposits coming from NRIs from Dubai, Sharjah and Bahrain.