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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state governments newly launched NRI insurance scheme is a pioneering initiative that could serve as a model for other states, said Girija Subramanian, the CMD of New India Assurance, the official insurance provider for the scheme introduced by NORKA. The company, which is the countrys largest nationalised general insurer, is fully equipped to handle the health insurance needs of the states Gulf diaspora as well as expatriates in other countries, she told TNIE . We have t
CHANDIGARH: Flood-ravaged Punjab is steadily getting back on its feet, thanks to the tireless efforts of individuals and organizations from all walks of life, including global Sikh charities, local volunteers, and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). The Seattle chapter of the Sarbat Da Bhala Trust has raised over $300,000 for flood relief efforts. Manmohan Singh Dhaliwal, a member of the trust and a businessman, said: Pintu Bath, along with the global Sarbat Da Bhala team led by SPS Oberoi, will travel
CHANDIGARH: A 72-year-old Indian-origin US citizen, Rupinder Kaur Pandher, was allegedly murdered in Kila Raipur village near Ludhiana after traveling from Seattle to Punjab in July to marry a 75-year-old UK-based Non-Resident Indian (NRI), Charanjit Singh Grewal. According to police, Grewal lured her to India under the pretext of marriage and then orchestrated her brutal murder through a contract killer. The Punjab Police have identified the main suspect as Sukhjeet Singh alias Sonu, who has al
LONDON: Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul passed away in London on Thursday evening, family sources said. He was 94. Lord Paul, founder of UK-based Caparo Group of industries, had been taken ill and hospitalised recently, where he passed away surrounded by members of his family. The House of Lords peer was born in Jalandhar and relocated to the UK in the 1960s in pursuit of treatment for his little daughter Ambika's cancer. After she passed away aged four years old, he set up the Ambika
CHANDIGARH: With 19 months to go for the 2027 Assembly elections in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday carried out yet another cabinet reshuffle, his seventh in a little over three years. In this reshuffle, newly elected Ludhiana (West) MLA Sanjeev Arora was inducted into the cabinet, while NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal resigned. Arora, a 61-year-old Ludhiana-based industrialist and social worker, who served as a Rajya Sabha MP for three years, was sworn in