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September 21, 2011

2 NRIs in Kuwait receive prestigious award

KUWAIT CITY: Prominent business personality and Kuwait's chain of supermarket Gulfmart's country head TA Remesh and Sageer Trikarpur, chairman of Kuwait's largest social welfare association of Indian nationals, were awarded the prestigious Garshom Award on Monday.

Najma Heptulla, former Rajya Sabha chairperson presented the award to Remesh and Trikarpur in a glittering function held at Salmiya Indian Community School, Salmiya. Indian embassy charge d affairs Vidhu P Nair,Samajwadi Party national general secretary Rajeev Kumar Rai and former Karnataka MLA Ivan Nigli were the chief guests. Sunitha Krishnan from Hyderabad, VC Praveen from Chennai, S Ahmed from Trivandrum and the AllMalaysia Malayalee Association also received the award on Monday.

The Garshom Award was instituted by Bangalore-based Garshom Infomedia for NRIs settled abroad and those who have returned to the country. The award committee constitutes Ivan Nigli, Dr B Ashok Kumar (Muscat), Polly Mathew Somatheeram (Germany) and Jins Paul (MD, Garshom Infomedia Limited).

In her speech, Najma Heptulla said, "I am happy to know that TA Remesh is holding a very successful post among the Kuwait business community. It's highly appreciable that he employs large number of Indians in this country."

Prominent members of the community also attended the award function. A special musical evening was also organized as a part of the award presentation ceremony. 

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