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Certificate attestation
cell for NRIs, others in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, 28 June 2008
Khaleej Times
- The central government will set up a foreign ministry cell in Hyderabad to facilitate certificate attestation. This will ease the problems of the NRIs or those wishing to go abroad.
Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Minister for NRI Affairs told a news conference here that the cell would come up in the state secretariat. This will save the candidates from the trouble of going to New Delhi for attestation of certificates. “Presently the candidates have to go to New Delhi to get the certificates attested. With this cell coming up in Hyderabad, it will save a lot of time and money of the people, who want to go abroad for jobs”, he said.
The state government has already set up a section for the attestation of education, birth and marriage certificates.
“But there are other certificates, which have to be attested only by the Ministry of External Affairs”, he said.
Meanwhile, the Indian government has okayed Turkey’s proposal to set up its consulate in Hyderabad
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Mangalore Kuwait Flights to be introduced on
July 17
Kuwait, Jun 26, 2008
Posted By:bhatkallys On 6/27/2008
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Long-awaited dream of people from Coastal Karnataka and Northern Malabar region living in Kuwait , of flying direct to Mangalore airport is almost set to come true, as final preparations are on and within a week's time tickets will be available online.
Top sources of Air India Express told Rajesh Sequeira, Coordinator for Karnataka NRI forum in Dubai that Thursday July 17 has been finalized as the date for maiden Kuwait-Mangalore direct flight as of now. Authorities have presented the schedule to aviation ministry for approval. The schedule is expected to get the approval within a week's time.
Initially there will be two flights a week, on Sunday and Thursday via Muscat .
Sources also said that a brand new aircraft of AI Express arrived on Monday June 23 and the process of introducing direct flight has started after the arrival of new aircraft. Owing to smaller carrying-capacity of the aircraft, it may not be possible to fly direct Kuwait - Mangalore flight as of now. Hence flights have been scheduled to fly via Muscat for the time being.
Several NRI organizations from Kuwait have been trying for this direct flight from the last few years. Though Kuwait is one of the oldest and largest places where large numbers of Coastal Karantaka NRIs are residing, direct flight to fly home has still been a mirage. This long delay in introducing direct flight had angered large number of NRIs.
Now with the beginning of Mangalore-Kuwait sector, passengers will be relieved of their woes of travelling via Mumbai or other airports in India .
The submitted schedule for approval is as follows:
Flight No. IX 389 / IX 390
Flight will arrive from Coachin to Mangalore at 18.50hrs
Departure to Kuwait via Muscat at 19.35hrs
Departure from Kuwait to Mangalore via Muscat at 0.05hrs next day
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A self-sustaining and self-contained community was what NRI Snehil Gambhir desired when he moved to 'The Laburnum' in Gurgaon two years ago. ...
Gurgaon's brand of urbanisation breeds hostility
Marya Shakil / CNN-IBN
Published on Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 13:43 in Nation section
CNN-IBN's special series, Sleepless in Suburbia focuses on the everyday problems being faced by satellite townships which have come up at a rapid pace. Today, we talk about the population of Gurgaon, which has grown to over a million in the last six years. There are skyscrapers on what used to be farmlands and that's just part of the social change. Read on...
Gurgaon: They call Gurgaon, a little corner of America in the heartland of
Haryana. With names of buildings right out of New York, the administration
of this suburb are all but luring NRIs in their midst.
A self-sustaining and self-contained community was what NRI Snehil Gambhir
desired when he moved to 'The Laburnum' in Gurgaon two years ago. He's very
happy with his choice of Gurgaon and says, "We tend to create our own
little island of what we think is important to us."
Outside the comfortable world of the Gambhirs is Lukmaan Khan's shop. Khan
supplies chicken to the residents of the skyscrapers but despite this, fears
that he may be removed from his dwelling some day. He hopes for peaceful coexistence
with the residents of the high towers.
Lukmaan Khan says, "Hum to bas yahi chahte hain woh bhi rahein hum bhi
rahein. Humein yahan se nahin hataya jaye." ("We just want that
they live and let live and not get us removed from here.")
Despite his pleas, Khan belongs to a group that is not welcomed inside the gates of the societies. Town-planners say the Gurgaon brand of urbanisation only breeds hostility.
An architect, Kaimal says, "There are all little islands by themselves.
There is no connection with the surroundings. The city of Guragon has near
complete absence of any infrastructure in public realm in terms of local transport,
in terms of signage or other local needs like sidewalks, parks. It's an atomised
existence."
Two worlds existing barely feet away from each other, only separated by the
glass - the glass that gives the other world the glimpse into the world that's
not theirs.
A divided Gurgaon it appears, today waits for the next social collision.
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