NRI News
Two Indians win PEN literary awards
Thursday, 18/08/2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/nri/nris-in-news/two-indians-win-pen-literary-awards/articleshow/9620018.cms
Two Indians -- Pulitzer winner Siddhartha Mukherjee and writer-journalist Manu Joseph -- figure in the 2011 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards programme in the US.
Parm Gill: A conservative immigrant who left a successful family-owned business to contest and win a federal election in Canada
Wednesday, 17/08/2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/parm-gill-an-immigrant-who-left-biz-to-win-a-federal-election-in-canada/articleshow/9594182.cms
In May, Parm Gill contested Canada's federal elections in the key riding (electoral district) of Brampton-Springdale on a Conservative ticket. Pitted against him was highprofile candidate Ruby Dhalla of the Liberal Party, an MP from Brampton-Springdale since 2004.
China opens the door granting 'green card' to an Indian for the first time
Tuesday, 16/08/2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/nri/visa-and-immigration/china-opens-the-door-granting-green-card-to-an-indian-for-the-first-time/articleshow/9616057.cms
China has a made a rare exception granting the local equivalent of a 'green card' to an Indian for the first time. The Indian, Mohmmed Rizwan, has been given a visa for five years instead of the one-year visa given to almost all foreigners.
Vaz hails no NRI kids arrested for UK riots
Monday, 15/08/2011
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-14/other-news/29886171_1_indian-origin-people-keith-vaz-david-cameron
Several Indian-origin people were among those attacked during the riots in London and elsewhere, but it is a matter of satisfaction for the community that so far none of the over 1,000 rioters arrested is of Asian origin.
Son of Indian migrant to Ghana now retail chain magnate
Sunday, 14/08/2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/nri/nris-in-news/son-of-indian-migrant-to-ghana-now-retail-chain-magnate/articleshow/9599553.cms
Indian investment in Ghana goes way back to the time when it was a British colony with the name Gold Coast. A 14-year-old Indian who landed in Gold Coast in 1929 could have never imagined that his son, now 72, would operate one of the biggest supermarket chains in the west African nation.
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