SHALABH “SHALLI” KUMAR – DON'T JUST BE HUMAN, BE A HUMANITARIAN
Having his roots in the Ambala district of Haryana, Shalli, as Shalabh Kumar is best known to those who know him, is an expatriate Indian American entrepreneur, industrialist and a philanthropist who is based out of Chicago in the US. The tycoon, apart from being active philanthropically, is also a bourgeois interpreter, kinship mover-and-shaker and […]
THE UBIQUITOUS NON RESIDENT THE WIZARDS OF BANKING & FINANCE
In the late 60s and early seventies, wave upon wave of educated young Indians, in abject disillusionment with the snail’s pace of growth at home, left Indian shores in search of a future elsewhere. This act of theirs for seeking a better life was looked upon as an act of betrayal in some quarters. “BRAINDRAIN […]
WATER WATER EVERYWHERE … … NOT A DROP TO DRINK
India is blessed with good and reasonably well-distributed rainfall for over 5-6 months annually, averaging 1170mm – but this varies widely from region to region, with desert areas of Rajasthan getting just about 100mm to a whopping 11,000mm in Cherrapunji. Out of the total available 4,000 billion m3/yr of sweet-water, 1,047 billion m3 is lost […]
सिंहस्थ कुभं-मेला :-75 लाख लोगों ने किया एक ही दिन में शाही स्नान
सदी के दूसरे सिंहस्थ के अंतिम शाही स्नान में उमड़ा श्रद्धालुओं का सैलाब जिसे देख सभी अलौकिक आनंद से सराबोर हुए, इस बार 8.5 करोड़ से भी ज्यादा लोगों ने कुम्भ पर क्षिप्रामें स्नान किया। वैशाख पूर्णिमा (21मई )पर उज्जैन सिंहस्थ महाकुंभ में मोक्षदायिनी क्षिप्रा नदी में 13 अखाड़ों का शाही स्नान सम्पन्न हुआ। श्रद्धालुओं […]
IN RETROSPECT: TWO YEARS OF MODI GOVERNMENT
ON TRACK TO BRING ‘ACHHE DIN’ Despite facing several challenges on the political and economical front, Narendra Modi- led NDA government, riding high on its development agenda, has successfully put the country on the path of social development and economic growth. There were multi- faceted challenges – two years of successive droughts and suicides by […]
Its Time India's Most Influential People
Universally considered one among the world media’s most well-known icons, Time magazine is held in high esteem by many, and read by countless millions across the globe. The venerable magazine recently released its 2016 list of the 100 most influential people on the planet, an annual choice listing of achievers who have carved a place […]
Astute, Rich, Indian & Famous Iniaspora Tycoons of The UK 2016
Modern United Kingdom’s economy has, given its hoary colonial past where the sun proverbially never set on it, metamorphosed into an incredible melting pot of ethnicities, cultures and corporate mores – with Asians, and among them Indians, playing an ever larger role in the business milieu of the kingdom. Where wealth creation and the accumulation […]
UTTAR PRADESH – MOVING ON THE EXPRESSWAY OF DEVELOPMENT
Uttar Pradesh (Northern Provinces), aka UP, is a northern Indian state created in 1937 as the United Provinces, and later renamed as Uttar Pradesh in 1950. Lucknow is the capital city, while cities like Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Allahabad, Moradabad, Bareilly, Aligarh, Sonbhadra and Varanasi are known for their industrial importance. On 9 November 2000, a new […]
INNOVATING INDIAN HEALTHCARE…. DR. SHASHI KANT BALIYAN
About few years ago, a British citizen of Indian origin Dr. Shashi Baliyan, came on vacation to his hometown in Haryana, India, to spend some quality Diwali time with his parents. This holiday inspired him to take a new turn after he attended a medical symposium there with a friend. Moved by the insight he […]
VIBRANT INDIA RESURGENT AFRICA
The India–Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) is an official platform for African-Indian relations. The IAFS until now has been held roughly once in every three years, with the first such conclave between 14 heads of African states and the government of India held from April 4 to April 8, 2008 in New Delhi. The second summit […]
SHARQ TARONALARI MELODIES OF THE EAST
The spectacular and grand biennial peagent of the international music festival “Sharq Taronalari” – “Melodies of the East” – is held once every two years at Samarkand in Uzbekistan, and has gained the status of being one of the most panoramic and enchanting events in the cultural calender of Central Asia. The current Sharq Taronalari […]
GURMANT GREWAL AN IRON MAN OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT ?
Gurmant Singh Grewal is a Canadian politician and former Conservative Party of Canada MP. Gurmant and wife Nina Grewal were in fact the very first married couple to serve in the Canadian House of Commons together. Gurmant grewal was first elected to the House of Commons on June 2, 1997 for the riding of Surrey […]
AN EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN BEING PROF. A P J ABDUL KALAM
Bharat has lost a Ratna, but the light from this jewel will guide us towards A P J Abdul Kalam’s dream destination – India as a knowledge superpower, in the first rank of nations. For him, the counterpoint to poverty was the wealth of knowledge, in both its scientific and spiritual manifestations. As a hero […]
PIOs IN THE UNITED KINGDOM…. WESTMINSTER'S NEW CROP OF PARLIAMENTARIANS
A large majority of PIOs have done well in their countries of adoption. And in countries where our diaspora constitutes a considerably large percent of the population, like Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Mauritius et al., people of Indian origin have done yeoman service, rising to become even Presidents and Prime Ministers. In the empire on […]
FROM GOLD TO GOLDEN APPLES…. 'LUCKY' RAJESH RAM SATIIJA
Though decades of frontline journalism both in print and the electronic media has made me something of a cynic and one who prefers to call a glass half-empty rather than half-full, it is not very often that I take a liking to people on first meeting. But Rajesh Ram Satiija is someone whom I took […]
Mauritius
Mauritius (République de Maurice) is a small, multicultural island nation in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, northeast of Reunion and southeast of Seychelles. It lies about 2,000 kilometres away from the southeast coast of the African continent. The country includes the island of Mauritius, Rodrigues, the islands of Agalega, and the archipelago of Saint […]
Hon. Deepak Obhrai-PC
Mr. Deepak Obhrai, a longtime Canadian Parliamentarian, was born on July 5th, 1950 in Oldeani, Tanzania, to Indian parents and went to school on three separate continents. His alma mater includes the Arusha Secondary School in Tanzania, and the Daly College at Indore in Madhya Pradesh, India. He then went on to the UK, to […]
RPBD 2014: Making a Beeline To London
Keeping in mind the size and importance of the Indian Diaspora in the UK, the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, under the helm of NDA Minister of External affairs Ms. Sushma Swaraj, has zeroed in upon London to hold the 2014 regional Pravasi Bhartiya Divas Convention. This mini-PBD event, meant to serve as a bridge […]