NRI News
In FY13, NRI deposits climb 19%
Friday, 17/05/2013
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/banking/article4721310.ece
Lured by higher returns offered by banks in their homeland, non-resident Indians (NRIs) placed deposits aggregating $14.18 billion in the financial year ended March 2013, an increase of 19 per cent over the previous year.
PUNJABI MIGRATION TO UNITED STATES- A story of great tenacity by Jasbir Singh Kang MD
http://sikhfoundation.org/PunjabiMigration_JSKang.html
Punjabis were the first South Asians to migrate to North America. Their history of migration to America is full of adventure. It is a story of struggle against discrimination and a battle for survival. The first verifiable record of an East Indian in North America is a 1670 Colonial diary that mentions a visit to Salem, Massachusetts by an Indian from Madras who was accompanying a sea captain.
Australian jailed to 45 yrs for raping and killing Indian girl
Friday, 17/05/2013
http://www.dayandnightnews.com/2013/05/australian-jailed-to-45-yrs-for-raping-and-killing-indian-girl/
Melbourne, May 17: A 21-year-old Australian man was today sentenced to 45 years in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 30 years for the “planned and premeditated” rape and murder of Indian student Tosha Thakkar, who he strangled to death, stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in a canal.
3 NRIs win Mini Punjab polls in Canada
Thursday, 16/05/2013
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-16/us-canada-news/39308971_1_burnaby-edmonds-amrik-virk-harry-lali
BATHINDA: Three Punjabi NRIs have won the elections to the British Columbia legislative assembly in Canada. Apart from two sitting members of New Democratic Party (NDP) winning the election, a candidate from the ruling British Columbia Liberals Party (BC Liberals) has also won -- taking the tally of winning Punjabis to three.
Sikh clergy fails to arrive at decision on memorial row
Thursday, 16/05/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130516/punjab.htm#4
Amritsar : The meeting of the Sikh clergy ended on an inconclusive note here today. Terming the controversy over Operation Bluestar Memorial as an internal matter of the Sikhs, the high priests said nobody should be allowed to publicly air views on the matter.
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