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| Sindri Born Techie and 207th richest man in the world is facing charge related to illegal online gambling |
The billionaire co-founder of PartyGaming, Anurag Dikshit, has plead guilty to a charge related to illegal online gambling and will pay a $300 million fine to US authorities, Gambling911.com learned Monday evening. Dikshit also could serve up to two years in prison. He is PartyGaming's largest shareholder, holding a 27 percent interest in the company. Dikshit is a billionaire Indian businessman, the richest man in Gibraltar and the 207th richest man in the world. As a co-founder of PartyGaming, parent company of the world's leading online poker site PartyPoker.com, he is one of the youngest billionaires in the world. Born in Sindri, Jharkhand, Dikshit graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science and engineering from India's Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1994. He completed schooling at De Nobili School, FRI, Jharkhand. Following graduation, Dikshit worked as a software developer in the United States at CMC, as a systems analyst for Websci and later as a consultant for AT&T. With a current fortune estimated to be $1.75 billion, he is 35th on the list of the richest Indians in the world. Party's founders have long been said to be negotiating with US authorities for their business activities in the States prior to passage of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act in October 2006. ---- Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Pubisher
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| Bidhu Shekhar Jha a politician in Manitoba, Canada |
Bidhu Shekhar Jha is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 2003, representing the Winnipeg division of Radisson for the New Democratic Party.
Bidhu Shekhar Jha was born in Deoghar, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri, and has taken post-graduate training in Industrial Engineering and Management. He moved to Canada from India in 1969 and founded Optimum Ergonomics Ltd. in 1978, specializing in office and computer furnishings. He later founded the Optimum Technology Corporation, specializing in international trade and business development.
Jha authored the screenplay for a full-length feature film entitled Namumkin (1988), telling the story of an Asian family exiled from Idi Amin's Uganda. He later served as president of Winnipeg's Indian Association, and led a flag-raising ceremony in 1997 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of India's independence. In 2001, he organized a dinner for British Columbia Premier Ujjal Dosanjh to mark his selection as Canada's first provincial leader of South Asian background.
Jha served on the board of Manitoba Telephone System in 1986-87, and has also served on the boards of the Canadian Cancer Society and Deer Lodge Foundation. In 2002, he received both a Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal and an Asia Pacific Award of Entrepreneurship from the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba. He was 63 years old as of 2006.
Political career
Jha ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1999 provincial election, and lost to Progressive Conservative candidate John Loewen in the south Winnipeg division of Fort Whyte. After the election, he was appointed to the Board of the provincial Crown Corporations Council. He later chaired a Taxi-Cab Safety Working Group, which was convened after five Winnipeg drivers were murdered over the course of ten years. He issued a report calling for the installation of safety shields, cameras and recording devices; safety shields were made mandatory in 2002.
Jha was elected for the northeast Winnipeg division of Radisson in the 2003 general election, as the NDP won a second consecutive majority government across the province. On November 4, 2003, he was appointed Legislative Assistant to the Minister of Energy, Science and Technology. The following year, he was named as Legislative Assistment to the Premier. He played an active role in securing repairs for the Prendergast Community Centre, and accompanied Premier Gary Doer on a provincial trade mission to India in 2006.
Jha broke ranks with his government in 2005 to oppose the construction of a large hog-processing facility in the Radisson division. Many of his constituents were against the project, and Jha argued that it should be built outside of the city. In response to criticism, Premier Doer announced in 2007 that the plant would not be constructed. Some believed that Jha's seat would be vulnerable in the 2007 provincial election, but he was re-elected by an increased margin. |
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| I didnt have any need to go to my ancestral village of Hazaree Baug (Hazaribag) to try and find long lost cousins and uncles .... |
I had always thought that all this fuss about the importance of people tracing their roots was sheer nonsense. What does it matter where one's forebears came from? Isn't it enough that one knows who and what one is, who one's parents are and what are the values that one holds dear? It must be.
Which is why every time I heard someone lamenting over the fact that the Creoles had an identity problem because their ancestors had been uprooted, I had to keep my temper in check. Utter sentimental crap, I thought. Which is why every time I heard an Mauritian of Indian origin going on endlessly about some supposed emotional link with India, I bit my lip so as not to say something that would make them hate me forever.
And then I went to Bihar.
I cannot express the feeling that overcame me on that trip and this in itself speaks volume. I am quite an eloquent girl on a good day, I can assure you.
Oh it was nothing dramatic but how do I describe it without sounding soppy?
Suffice it to say that the affection I felt for people I met there took me quite by surprise. Suffice it to say that often, I felt that my eyes were welling up for no reason.
I didn't go visit the village where my father's forefather came from; it's not in Bihar anymore, it is in a neighboring state called Jharkhand that used to be part of Bihar. I didn't have any need to go to my ancestral village of Hazaree Baug to try and find long lost cousins and uncles with whom I would have nothing in common.
No, it simply was not necessary.
Visiting Bihar was enough. Getting a feel of the land, the customs, and the people was enough. It is not going to change my life and it is not going to change the way I relate to people. It felt simply good to know that at least half of me "belonged" somewhere, that I had "roots" somewhere.
Which begs the questions: Could it be that people actually need to feel that they "belong"? How important is it? And what happens if one doesn't know where one comes from? How does this affect a person if at all?
Like I said, the visit to Bihar was not life changing but it sure made me feel good.
And it has taught me a valuable lesson.
I have always known that part of my legacy came from Bihar and the other part from Andhra Pradesh. What about people who have never known where their forebears came from? Could it be that this sense of not having an identity, of not having "roots", of not "belonging" is an impediment to many things, among which personal fulfillment?
Could this be the reason why so many Creoles in this country are still struggling to come to terms with themselves and move on?
Could Professor Robert Shell be right, after all?
Article publi頬e Vendredi 29 f鶲ier 2008
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