OM NAMAH SHIVAY
Hinduism, one among the oldest practised religions of the World, with no single founding father, is the third largest religion on this planet. It never started as an organized religion and has no founding father. It was more of a lifestyle, which hailed from the Indus Valley Civilization. As people started migrating from one place […]
ALL ABOUT IFFI & THE FILM BAZAR AT GOA
With the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2015, India’s annual film extravaganza, having just come to an end, NRI Achievers brings you a bouquet of interesting nuggets from Goa, written specially for our readers by Jyoti Venkatesh, our cinema maven. Sit back in your chair, and plunge headlong into it. You will enjoy it. […]
RESURGENT RAJASTHAN PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT 2015 AN IDEAL INVESTMENT DESTINATION
Rajasthan in our minds oft invokes images of a vast land of kings and warriors, palaces and forts and vast expanses of desert. It is perhaps befitting that the current chief minister is a former Maharani, belonging to one of the noblest royal houses of the country. Vasundhra Raje for long has been fired up […]
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 […]
M&M TO RAMP UP TUV 300 PRODUCTION
Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s largest utility vehicle maker, is planning to ramp up the production of its newly launched compact sports utility vehicle, the TUV 300. The ramp-up comes within two months of its launch, spurred by good response from the market. Having secured over 15,500 bookings over the last two months, several vendors in […]
OH KOLKATA
The rolling syllables of “Calcutta” as the Brits called it, or “Kaligata” as the Bengalis knew it in the past, or “Kolkata” as we call it today, evokes memories of a glorious past in the mind’s eyes of the city’s myriad admirers. This “City of Joy” of Dominic Lapierre that served as the capital of […]
DR. HARINDER DHANJU “ I WANT TO RETURN BACK TO THE SOCIETY”
As part of the array of people whom we portray in our Dossier section, the NRI Achievers team has this time chosen four persona to portray, one of whom is Dr. Harinder Dhanju, an Indian Canadian dentist par-excellence, who also feels passionate about his responsibility to society, both in Canada and in India. So apart […]
A CHANGE OF GUARD IN CANADA
Under this theme of Global events, we have in the past often brought to you interesting information, facts, news and articles from across the world on events and happenings in lands foreign, whether it be festivals and days of remembrance, ceremonies of national and international importance, Diaspora related stories etc. In this issue, we bring […]
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 […]
HDFC BANK NET UP 21% ON RETAIL LOANS SEGMENT
HDFC Bank, the country’s second largest private sector lender, has reported a 20.5% jump in net profit to INR 2,870 crore in the three months to September, helped by robust performance in the retail loans segment and a rise in other income. The overall set of numbers was also driven by net interest income and […]
AI PLANS TO LEASE 15 NEW A320S NEXT YEAR
National carrier Air India (AI) will aggressively revamp its fleet and add new planes, even as it takes on private airlines for a larger pie of the domestic sky. Sources said the airline plans to take 15 brand new Airbus A320s on lease next year as the emphasis shifts to providing a better product and […]
IMPACT OF INTEREST RATE CUT ON REALTY….
With affordability and safety of investment being the key criteria for home buyers, the latest round of repo-rate cut by the RBI may see only a marginal improvement in demand and may not act as a catalyst to stimulate realty sales in this festive season. After the announcement of an unexpectedly high 50 basis points […]
SEX MOVIES: MINIMUM INVESTMENT, MAXIMUM RETURNS……
Even as big budget films continue to bleed producers (e.g. SHAANDAAR, SINGH IS BLING etc.,) the trend today is to make small budget films sans stars with minimum investment and gain maximum returns at the box office. One of the best options for this to make sleazy films. Sex sells. Neha Dhupia went on record […]
महाकालेश्वर की नगरी उज्जैन…..
आज हम आपको कराते हैं सैर भारत के एक ऐसे नगर की जहाँ का कण–कण भक्ति के रस सेश्रृंगारित है, जहाँ हर सुबह गली चौराहों पर हर हर महादेव के जयकारे सुनाई पड़ते हैं, जहाँ हर छोटे–बड़े गली मुहल्लों व घरों में मंदिर ही मंदिर हैं। भगवान महाकालेश्वर के इस नगर में एक–दो नहीं बल्कि […]
THE SAHITYA AKADEMI IMBROGLIO THE SILENT REVOLT OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA
The past two months has seen a spate of protests by the country’s intelligentsia against a perception of ‘rising intolerance’ – and returning awards has become their favoured mode of expressing this protest. While we could agree with the writers, artists, film-makers and scientists resorting to this, or agree to disagree with them – the […]
सुशील तायल: एक प्रोफेशनल सीए का समाज सेवा के प्रति जुनून
अच्छी सैलरी, नाम और रुतबा। सीए को लोग कुछ इस तरह ही परिभाषित करते हैं। कॉमर्स की पढ़ाई करने वाले स्टूडेंट्स के लिए सीए एक ड्रीम जॉब की तरह है। या यूं कह लें कि कॉमर्स स्ट्रीम से पढ़ने वाले अधिकतर छात्र सीए बनने का ही सपना देखते हैं तो गलत नहीं होगा। सीए यानी […]
ज्योतिष से उपचार संभव है :- आचार्य दीपक जैन
आज की भागदौड़ भरी जिंदगी में हर कोई किसी न किसी समस्या से ग्रस्त है, मसलन व्यवसाय, रोज़गार, ग्रह कलेश, मानसिक अशांति, सवास्थ्य आदि। इन सभी समस्याओं का हल छुपा होता है ग्रहों की स्तिथि पर। ग्रह तो अपनी चाल जारी रखते हैं लेकिन ज्योतिषों द्वारा बताए गए कुछ उपाए इन ग्रहों की पीड़ा से […]
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 […]