Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Top News

•             Kerala law panel recommends Rs 10 Lakh fine for hartal calls.

•             Kerala mulls passenger ship service to the Gulf.

•             Kerala government will be investing Rs.12,000 Crores for developing ports within the next three years.

•             Kerala slaps 10% surcharge on retail chains.

•             The government Thursday decided to fund the restoration of the original environment in the famous Kuttanad lowlands of Kerala

•             In a move to encourage more business and family visits to Bahrain, the Interior Ministry will now give Indians two week visit visas on arrival.

•             Britain has decided to allow thousands of Indian professionals, who left the UK after being affected by the November 2006 changes to immigration rules, to return to work in Britain.

•             Property sales in India turned sluggish but sales to NRIs have tripled in the last six months, according to consultants Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj.

•             The UK government announced that foreign students can now work in the UK for two years after completing their courses, instead of the one year allowed earlier.

•             The British government announced that resident families of visitors travelling on short term visas will be held responsible for their guests overstaying or breaking any laws.

•             Kerala mulls law to check extravagance during marriages.

•             Mumbai-based Ambulance Access for All (AAA) Foundation has lined up plans to expand its ‘Dial 1298 for Ambulance' services to all districts of Kerala by 2009.

•             Kerala invites air taxi operators to promote tourism.

•             A Kerala fish curry was all it took for an Indian restaurant in Cardiff to win the Tiffin Cup 2008, awarded by the House of Commons in London.

•             The Kerala government has asked the Centre to allow it to acquire land compulsorily for setting up SEZs owned by the state.

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