Diplomatist January PRAVASI BHARTIYA DIVAS 2012 Contents

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

PUBLISHER’S NOTE/EDITORIAL

Welcome to the first edition of the New Year. As we welcome 2012 with a feeling of anticipation mixed with a palpable sense of awe, one cannot help but marvel at how the future loves to remain an enigma, a guess work, an astrologer’s nightmare. So even though 2011 did throw up many surprises in places least expected it is difficult to fathom what 2012 will resemble.

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PRAVASI BHARTIYA DIVAS 2012

Interview with Honourable Prime Minister- Kamla Persad Bissessar

The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, is the seventh and current Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She was sworn in as Prime Minister on May 26, 2010 and is the country’s first woman Prime Minister. Persad-Bissessar is the leader of the United National Congress and leads the People’s Partnership, a coalition of five parties, formed for the general election of 24 May 2010

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Pravasi Bhartiya Divas - Going Beyond Stereo Types

Commemorating the arrival of our greatest Pravasi- Mahatma Gandhi on January 9, 1915 from South Africa, Jaipur – the host of 10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas from January 7-9, 2012, is all set to welcome its industrious and high achieving diasporas from across world. Although, skeptics call it an annual jamboree, the attendance of NRIs and PIOs over its last editions reveal that it has gained currency and the forum has served as a meaningful interface among all stakeholders.

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Angostura Making Strides in India and Asia

Angostura aromatic bitters has been making inroads into the Indian market, over the past few years, in addition to some of the South East Asian countries, such as, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.

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The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Republic of India share strong historical and economic ties which started on 30 May 1845, with the arrival of indentured workers from India to Trinidad, a then British colony.

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Investing in Trinidad and Tobago is easy

Fiscal incentives are benefits granted to large-scale locally incorporated manufacturing companies under the provisions of the Fiscal Incentives Act, Chapter 85:01. Fiscal incentives manifest themselves in different forms..

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiatives in Trinidad and Tobago

The Government of Trinidad and Tobago is pursuing a number of initiatives in the Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) that are in harmony with the Green Paper on Energy and Minerals Policy that is currently under development.

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Building a Two-Way Highway of Film

For almost seventy-five years, Indian films have been a popular and beloved form of entertainment for cinema fans in the Southern Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago, where almost half of the population is descended from indentured immigrants from India.

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Global Indian – Inclusive Growth Role of the Diaspora

The Honourable Minister of Overseas Indians, Mr Vyalar Ravi, in his message to the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2012 has stated that the focus is to build a borderless platform and enable the global Indian to provide impetus to the India growth story.

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Celebrate ‘India’

After taking the global centre stage at every multilateral forum including the recent ‘Climate’ talks, India is set to welcome its Global Indians to Jaipur for commemorating the NRI Day on 09 January 2012. Nonetheless industrious and enterprising Indians have acquired ‘centre stage’ in their respective adopted countries across the verticals; an emerging India looks all set to write a new script for the global order.

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Solar Energy - Investment Opportunities for the Indian Diaspora

After taking the global centre stage at every multilateral forum including the recent ‘Climate’ talks, India is set to welcome its Global Indians to Jaipur for commemorating the NRI Day on 09 January 2012. Nonetheless industrious and enterprising Indians have acquired ‘centre stage’ in their respective adopted countries across the verticals; an emerging India looks all set to write a new script for the global order.

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Frequently asked Questions Raised by PIOs and NRIs

More often than not NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) and PIOs (Persons of Indian Origin) are confronted with infinite and intriguing questions in their minds when they decide to connect with the land of their ancestors. In our special coverage, we seek to provide readers with some authentic answers to the frequently asked queries with regard to enterprise and business in India. We hope our efforts will go down well all through the pursuit undertaken by entrepreneurial second generation expatriate Indians..

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Why To Invest in Rajasthan?

More often than not NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) and PIOs (Persons of Indian Origin) are confronted with infinite and intriguing questions in their minds when they decide to connect with the land of their ancestors. In our special coverage, we seek to provide readers with some authentic answers to the frequently asked queries with regard to enterprise and business in India. We hope our efforts will go down well all through the pursuit undertaken by entrepreneurial second generation expatriate Indians..

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