October 2006 News

NRI
Chitra Bharucha appointed vice chair of BBC Trust
Friday, October 13, 2006: Leading NRI haematologist
Chitra Bharucha has been appointed as Vice Chair of BBC Trust.

Indians
Economists tipped for 2006 Nobel Prize
Friday, October 13, 2006: Two economists
of Indian origin are on the short list of prospective Nobel Prize
winners in economics to be announced on Monday.

Award
for Indian American woman engineer
Friday, October 13, 2006: NEW YORK: An
Indian American, Alka Patel, has been named as the winner of the
2006 Distinguished New Engineer Award by the Society of Women Engineers.

Punjabi
NRI acquires Air Slovakia
Friday, October 13, 2006: Indian-born businessman
Harjinder Singh Sidhu has bought Air Slovakia, a private central
European airline for an undisclosed amount.

NRI
author Kiran Desai wins Man Booker prize
Friday, October 13, 2006: India-born novelist
Kiran Desai has been named the the winner of the £50,000 Man
Booker Prize for Fiction for The Inheritance of Loss, published
by Hamish Hamilton