Asian Lite News Archive

Category: NRI News

  • Modi to get British Visa

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    Prime Minister David Camerom has invited BJP prime minister nominee Narendra Modi to visit Britain. The Indian leader was a pariah in the western world due to his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. A Downing Street spokesperson said: “The Prime Minister (David Cameron) called Narendra Modi this morning to congratulate him on his victory…

  • British Gujaratis Hail Modi Win

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    Priti Patel MP, the Prime Minister’s UK Indian Diaspora Champion and a British MP of Gujarati origin, welcomes the outcomes of the Indian general election. “I congratulate India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP Party on the clear results of the Indian elections and for earning the largest democratic mandate the world has…

  • Tea Boy Turns To Become A PM

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    M.R. Narayan Swamy writes on Modi’s dramatic growth from a tea boy to the prime minister of the largest democracy inthe world   There was a time when he sold tea at a railway station in Gujarat as his family battled poverty. After toying for a while with the life of a renunciate, he finally…

  • Modi Cabinet On Anvil

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    Here is the possible cabinet ministers in the new BJP government head by Modi Suggestions by London-based Richard Heald, Group CEO of  UK India Business Council   Office Person Finance Arun Jaitley/Manohar Parrikar/Piyush Goel Defence Rajnath Singh/Modi for a while External Affairs Sushma Swaraj Commerce Arun Shourie/Subramanian Swamy Human Resources Department Murli Manohar Joshi/Sushma Swaraj/Nitin Gadkari Rural…

  • Modi faces hurdles on path!

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    BJP leader Narendra Modi is sure to head India’s new government but he could face problems even while providing strong governance for the next five years, astrologers say.But there is no unanimity among astrologers across the country on the number of seats the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies will win in the just ended…

  • Don’t Carry baggage, Let Go

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    DAILY DOSE BY BIKRAM VOHRA – The most difficult thing to do: Move on, drop the past, don’t carry baggage from yesterday into tomorrow. It doesn’t matter whether it is a friendship, a job, love, business, most of us trap ourselves by lugging unnecessary cargo and falling down under its weight. Let it go. I…

  • Kenya Travel Advice Update

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    FCO advises against all but essential travel to Mombasa Island and the surrounding area. The FCO has changed its travel advice to Kenya to advise against all but essential travel to Mombasa Island and the surrounding area following recent terrorist attacks and the continuing terrorist threat in the area. The Travel Advice now reads: “The…

  • NRI Ro gets White House boost

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    Indian-origin Ro Khanna, a former Obama administration official, has received a boost in his campaign to unseat a seven-term California lawmaker with a couple of major state newspapers endorsing him. San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle have both voiced their preference for Khanna, 37, former deputy assistant secretary in the commerce department. Fellow…

  • Sanya Quits UKIP Over Racism

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    Sanya-Jeet Thandi, a member of the UKIP’s youth wing, said she is quitting the right-wing party on the grounds that it has descended into a terrifying “form of racist populism,” The Guardian daily newspaper from London reported. The university student told Daily Mail that the party had abandoned its core supporters and called on others…

  • Tamil Biz meet in London

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      BSICC, in partnership with UKTNCC, organised the UK Tamil Nadu & Puducherry Business Meet  at Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London. This business meet was chaired by Mr Virendra Sharma MP( Southall, UK). The audience included representatives from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Members of House of Lords & House of Commons, representatives from other Indian states/…

  • NRI petitioner secure meeting

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    Upset over discourtesy by staff at the Indian High Commission here, over 2,500 Indians have petitioned the mission to be polite to their countrymen and not treat them like “garbage“. A petition titled ‘Stop Treating Indians Like Garbage!’ launched earlier this month on Change.org by an NRI IT professional has gathered over 2,894 signatures so…

  • Crash kills 15 Asian workers

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    Fifteen Asian workers were killed in Dubai when the bus they were travelling rammed into a parked truck on a road shoulder. Thirteen others were injured. The bus was carrying 29 workers when it hit the truck.According to a statement issued by Dubai Police, 10 of the injured were rushed to Rashid Hospital and six others to…

  • Cobra chief to lead BGM Uni

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    The University of Birmingham has appointed India-born businessman Lord Karan Bilimoria as its new chancellor, the university announced Monday. Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea CBE, the India-born founder of Cobra Beer, will take up his role at an Installation Ceremony in July, making him the seventh University of Birmingham chancellor, the university said in a release.…

  • 100 scholarships for NRI students

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    The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, New Delhi, has launched a scheme called the ‘Scholarship Programme for Diaspora Children’ to assist children of the Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs)’ in pursuing undergraduate courses in their home country.  A total of 100 scholarships will be offered for undergraduate courses in several disciplines…