• NRI investments in Punjab projected to touch 5,000 cr
• Nitish wows diaspora, says 'hum kisi se kam nahin'
• NRIs may get voting rights: Manmohan
• Jan 02, 2005:NRI doctor Sudhir Parikh selected to receive the prestigiousPravasi Bharatiya Samman for 2006

• NRI Iftekhar Shareef, US auto manufacturing & Illinois official will attend Pravasi Divas from Jan 7 to 9, 2006
• The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, scheduled in 2006 in Hyderabad (3)

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lighting the lamp for inaugural session of 'Pravasi Bharatiya Divas' function along with Vice President of Suriname Rattankumar Ajodhia (L) with Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Jagdish Tytler in Mumbai

• Bombay, Jan 08, 2004: Punjab to set up fast track courts for NRIs: Capt Singh at the Third Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (01_2)
• Bombay, Jan 08, 2004:Why India's continued inefficiency in sprucing the nation's primary healthcare infrastructure? NRIs have questioned at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
• Bombay, Jan 08, 2004: Tytler assures NRI properties,investment will be safegaurded
• Bombay, Jan 07, 2004: PRIME MINISTER’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS AT PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS (2005_1)
• Bombay, Jan 07, 2004:PM’s opening line at NRI meet: dual citizenship and a call to invest in India

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Bombay. Jan 05, 2005:
NRIpress

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the three-day Pravasi Bhartiya Divas in Mumbai on January 7 and President APJ Abdul Kalam will confer the awards at the valedictory session on January 9.

Over 1900 delegates including 1400 overseas Indians from 60 countries are taking part in the meet, which has been structured this year in a "very focussed and business-like manner", the minister said.

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15 distinguished NRIs, who have been selected for this year's Pravasi Bhartiya Samman:

 

• USA: Two NRIs selected
  1. Professor Jagdish Bhagwati Economist, a University Professor-----------------
     
     
  2. Sam Pitroda Telecom industry expert: If there’s one man who built the foundation of the revolution in telephony usage in India in the last two decades of the 20th century, it is Sam Pitroda.----------

• UK: Two NRIs selected
  1. Lord Bikhu Parekh was the first to defend and define the Indian culture in right perspective when the media here attacked the Indian business practices----------------------------------------
     
     
  2. Vikram Seth has won accolades for writing poems and novels in English--------------------
• Africa: Amina Cachalia- South African NRI women's rights activist----------------------------
  
  
Middle East: Yousaf Ali M.A., prominent NRI businessman and managing director of Emke Group gets Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award and only recipient from the Middle East-----------------------------

• Nov. 19, 2004: Tytler wants NRI meet not to turn into a 'tamasha' Sonia Gandhi said, ''Don’t take the overseas Indians lightly. They mean business. They are serious people"
• Nov. 10, 2004: PM to inaugurate Pravasi Bharatiya Divason on January 7- President APJ Abdul Kalam will attend the concluding session and give away awards on January 9

• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, New Delhi- 9th January, 2004

• Jan 12, 2004: States woo diaspora money
• Jan 11, 2004: An upset Saudi Arabia-based businessman said, "The government is only interested in our bank balance"
  
• Jan 10, 2004: Remove red tape & do simple procedures-advice by NRIs

PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS 2003

• PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS- January 09, 2003 ---------------------------------------