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Top NRI Realty Investment Destinations
Top NRI Realty Investment Destinations

Top NRI Realty Investment Destinations

The Nonresident Indian`s (NRI) investment in real estate is a big boost to the struggling reality sector. In the past, the NRI population primarily bought homes, where they would eventually settle down after returning to their home grounds. However, since the last decade, there is a change in the... read more »

Tea growers in Assam face threats from militant outfits
Tea growers in Assam face threats from m...

Tea growers in Assam face threats from militant outfits

Guwahati –  Militant outfits regularly harass people through illegal practices like extortion, taxation and abduction. Workers and small tea garden owners at Assam-Nagaland border are increasingly facing threats from various militant outfits. Twenty-year-old Damu Gour, who works as a daily... read more »

Delhi gang rape pained me, says poet Salman Khurshid
Delhi gang rape pained me, says poet Sal...

Delhi gang rape pained me, says poet Salman Khurshid

New Delhi – Pained at the brutal assault and gang rape of a young Delhi woman last year, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has penned some poems to pay “tribute to her soul and to her parents”. The ghastly incident of Dec 16, 2012 shook the nation and led to widespread... read more »

Parrikar likes to read in loo, be it even on Mahabharata
Parrikar likes to read in loo, be it eve...

Parrikar likes to read in loo, be it even on Mahabharata

Panaji – Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar likes reading in the loo, even if the book is based on an epic, like the Mahabharata. Speaking at a book release function in Panaji, Parrikar said that Maratha King Shivaji was his ideal and that he always tried following his tenets, even though... read more »

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