Pravasi Divas Jan. 7-9

Dec 22, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

The ninth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, an annual gathering of people of Indian origin, will be held in New Delhi from January 7 to 9, 2011. Union overseas Indian affairs minister Vayalar Ravi said it will have a special focus on the north-eastern states. There will be a special plenary session on investment opportunities in the Northeast, which will be addressed by the chief ministers of all the north-eastern states.

The Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council, which includes steel magnate L.N. Mittal, Indra Nooyi of Pepsico and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, will meet in New Delhi on January 7. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate it on January 8. New Zealand governor-general Anand Satyanand will be the chief guest. President Pratibha Patil will deliver the valedictory address January 9.

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Goa awards tainted cop, gets flak
age Correspondent
Panaji

Dec. 21: The police-politician-drug mafia nexus that had plagued the ruling coalition in Goa earlier this year came back to haunt it after a police officer alleged to having links with the state’s drug mafia was awarded the Chief Minister’s gold medal on Goa Liberation Day.
The Opposition BJP on Tuesday said that awarding deputy superintendent of police Mr Chandrakant Salgaonkar with the CM’s gold medal was proof enough that the government was hand in glove with drug dealers and police officials who were in their payroll.
Speaking to reporters, BJP general-secretary Mr Govind Parvatkar said, “It is a shame that the chief minister’s police gold medal for meritorious work has been given to someone who has been helping the drug mafia.”

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