Re: [Assam] [assam] Indian-Americans Caught In $450 million Medicare Fraud

2012-05-03 Thread bhuban.baruah
Times of India(May 3, 2012) WASHINGTON: Several Indian-Americans are among 107 people charged in Medicare fraud schemes involving $450 million in false billings uncovered in an operation across seven cities in the largest US bust in recent history. Top US law enforcement officials announced

Re: [Assam] [assam] Indian Votes Crucial as UK holds Civic Polls today

2012-05-03 Thread bhuban.baruah
Times Of India (May 3, 2012) LONDON: Half of Britain would go to the polls for council elections, including the one to elect the London mayor, on Thursday with a Conservative Party survey last week revealing that British Indians are likely to stick to the opposition Labour Party. A

Re: [Assam] [assam] Demand for Indian domestic workers abroad:Ravi

2012-05-03 Thread bhuban.baruah
Times of India (May 3, 2012) NEW DELHI: There is demand for Indian workers of various skill sets such as housemaids and home nurses abroad, including in the Gulf countries, Malaysia, Singapore and in some European nations, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vyalar Ravi said Wednesday.

Re: [Assam] [assam] An Army Apart

2012-05-03 Thread bhuban.baruah
New York Times (May 3, 2012) DELHI — In the fall of 2007, shortly after retiring as chief of the Indian army, J.J. Singh became president of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, one of those venerable social institutions where, sipping gin at the bar, it is difficult to imagine that the British ever

Re: [Assam] [assam] An unusual picture of a bird found in Assam

2012-05-03 Thread bhuban.baruah
Dear Friends: The New York Times today (May 3, 2012) has displayed the photograph of an unusual bird in its Image of the Day feature. The caption reads: A coppersmith Barbet peeps from its nest a betel-nut tree, for predator birds in Guwahati. The photograph is from European Pressphoto

[Assam] The Picture of Coppersmith Barbet

2012-05-03 Thread Dilip Deka
Here is the picture that Bhubanda wrote about. May 2, 2012, 12:58 pm Image of the Day: May 2 By THE NEW YORK TIMES European Pressphoto AgencyA Coppersmith Barbet peeps from its nest in a betel-nut tree, for predator birds in Guwahati,

Re: [Assam] The Picture of Coppersmith Barbet

2012-05-03 Thread Chan Mahanta
Here is the link: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/image-of-the-day-may-2/ So, does anyone know what the Oxomiya name for this bird is? Yes, it is a quiz :-). On May 3, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Dilip Deka wrote: Here is the picture that Bhubanda wrote about.