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Smart City project, in the state’s industrial hub Kochi, received a further jolt when the Kerala government changed its stand once again on the project’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) status.

 

One of various initiatives to be launched by Delhi's Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre, a public-private venture of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and the Confederation of Indian Industry announced in Muscat that they will launch a 'Diaspora Knowledge Network'. The goal of the Network is to bring together NRIs and PIOs and provide them a platform to share their expertise in different fields, with compatriots in India.

 

According to Open Doors, an authoritative annual report, for the seventh year running, India is the leading source of foreign enrolments on US campuses constituting 15 percent of total US university enrolment, at 94,563 students for the academic year 2007-08.

 

India's Moon Impact Probe launched from its unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 landed on the moon's surface successfully. The Probe descended from the satellite in what was described as a perfect operation, joining the US, the erstwhile Soviet Union and the European Union as the fourth nation to achieve the historic milestone.

 

Praful Patel the Civil Aviation Minister stated the current high air fares will come down from January, as airlines will start passing the benefit of cheaper jet fuel to passengers.

 

Leading Malayalam movie star Kavya Madhavan is engaged to NRI Nischal, who works in the Bank of Kuwait. Ms Kavya has stopped signing on new films and will move to Kuwait after she is married.

 

A monthly magazine exclusively for NRIs in the US, Consim Info was recently launched that is aiming at the match-making wannaweds in the US.

 

The Saudi government has banned foreigners who cannot read or write from taking up jobs in the country.

 

According to latest official figures an estimated 220,000 Indians live in the US illegally, recording an 81 percent increase in the number over the last seven years.

 

The Blue Card that is a fast track work visa for skilled Indians to live and work in Europe was approved by ambassadors of the European Union's 27 member states and is expected to be ratified at a meeting in Brussels later in November.

 

The Post-graduate Programme for Executives known as PGPX is becoming a channel for Indian executives working abroad looking to return to India to see if the programme is a route to start afresh at home.

 

Lured by high returns, NRIs pumped $513 million into Indian coffers in NRI deposits in September, the highest since December 2006.