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Government of India has sent two ships to Iraq to evacuate stranded Indians. Official sources said that cargo ships have also been sent to Basra to carry Indians to the nearest safe port from where Indian Air Force (IAF) of Air India planes will carry them back home. There are 10,000 Indians in the country and some of them have already come back. The government is putting up camp offices at various places, including Karbala, Najaf and Basra. India has already issued an advisory urging all Indian nationals, who wish to travel voluntarily, that they can take commercial flights out from the airports of Irbil,
Baghdad, Najaf and Basra. The government is doing everything to bring back Indians from strife-torn Iraq. With the situation in Iraq fast spinning out of control, the Indian government is putting all the efforts to evacuate Indians not only from Sunni-controlled troubled areas, but also herded them out from relatively peaceful Shiadominated regions.
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London to host its first Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas India has chosen London as the host city for its next Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention in October 2014 for 2 days, given the size and importance of the Indian diaspora in the UK. This will be the eighth regional convention, but the first one in the UK. On Monday evening, at the India House, HE Ranjan Mathai, the Indian High Commission to Britain reportedly announced: "As we work on this event and develop some ideas, the High Commission will meet with members of the community here and take this initiative for-
ward." "The Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre will be a partner for the divas in the UK and will work with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to work on a good business plan.� The High Commissioner also said that the destination of the annual Indian PBD will be Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to mark the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's return from South Africa. He added, "Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated on January 9 every year to mark the contribution of the Continued on page 8
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