News - Sisters lose second coming cover

Feb 20, 2008 @ 03:27 am by redakcjadnia


Insurers have withdrawn the cover on their virginity taken out by three sisters in the event of the second coming of Christ.


Essex-based Britishinsurance.com confirmed it had provided the 1m policy, but said it was reviewed on Thursday following complaints.


The firm said the women from Inverness had renewed the policy since 2000.


The cover was meant to pay for the cost of bringing up Christ if one of them has a virgin birth.


Britishinsurance.com managing director Simon Burgess said it had not been the finance insurance job intention to offend anyone.


The Catholic Church is up in arms about what we’ve been doing. We have withdrawn the cover because it was causing a furore
Simon Burgess
Britishinsurance.com


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Mr Burgess said: “The people were finance and insurance manager about having sufficient funds if they immaculately conceived. It was for caring and bringing up the Christ.


“We sometimes get weird requests and this is the weirdest we have had.”


Burden of proof


The burden of proof that it was Christ had rested with the women and any premium on the insurance was donated to charity, said Mr Burgess.


The siblings had paid 100 annually since 2000. If they had secured a payout, they stood to receive 1m.


He added: “The Catholic Church is up in arms about what we’ve been doing. We have withdrawn the cover because it was causing a furore.


“The three ladies have been informed.”


The women, who have not been identified, are believed to be members of a Christian group in Inverness.


Britishinsurance.com said it was authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Insurance agent finance career change and is a member of the Finance Industry Standards Association.


The Catholic Church in Scotland declined to comment.

News - Bank rapped over mortgage letter

Feb 19, 2008 @ 02:17 am by redakcjadnia


The Halifax bank has been insurance premium finance
by the advertising watchdog over a “misleading” mailing to customers.

The mailshot, sent to 120,000 mortgage holders with subsidiary Intelligent Finance, asked customers to reveal details of their contents insurance.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint that Halifax had “no good reason” to request details of customers’ contents insurance.

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The member of the public who complained about the mailing said the bank was trying to obtain information for marketing in the future.

In response, the Halifax said that as the lender it was entitled to request insurance details.

In its adjudication, the ASA said the bank was wrong to ask for details of their mortgage holders contents policy.

According to the ASA the bank’s letter “misleadingly implied that the advertisers (the Halifax) needed information about the recipients’ contents insurance for their records”.

News - Star show for India’s ‘mega-wedding’

Feb 15, 2008 @ 01:58 am by redakcjadnia
The week-long mega-wedding of the two sons of Sahara business group chief Subrata Roy will begin in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Tuesday.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai and cricketers Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar are among the 10,500 guests who have been invited.

Describing the auto car finance insurance rate for the twin weddings, one Indian newspaper said it “would put a maharajah to shame”.


No expenses spared

The snazzy invitation cards have special security chips embedded in them to swipe and enter the heavily-guarded wedding venue.

Over 80 rooms and suites have been booked at a top hotel in Lucknow to house special guests - state governors, chief ministers, judges, parliamentarians and journalists, it is reported.

Aishwarya Rai


Every person whom I know in the industry will be attending the wedding


Aishwarya Rai

The Sahara business group is also running 27 chartered flights to ferry special guests to Lucknow from all over India.

A team of crack Indian chefs will cook up a wide ranging feast that will include Indian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican and Lebanese fare.

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Top Bollywood filmmaker director Raj Kumar Santoshi will shoot a film on the wedding, a top art director will “supervise the sets”, and a Music Television (MTV) video jockey will anchor the programme.

Bollywood ’shutdown’

Reports from Bombay, also known as Mumbai, suggest that most of Bollywood has shut shop for four days beginning Tuesday as most of the stars are away at the lavish wedding.

Actress Aishwarya Rai told the AFP news agency that she had completed the shooting of her new film in time to take time out for the wedding.

“My family is going to Lucknow and as far as Bollywood is concerned every person whom I know in the industry will be attending the wedding,” said Rai, who is also a brand ambassador for the Sahara group.

On the sidelines of the wedding, the business group has also promised to marry off 101 couples and feed as many as 140,000 poor people across the country, one newspaper reports.

Rags to riches

Subrata Roy’s Sahara began in 1978 with three workers in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh as a small deposits para-banking business.

Today it claims to have grown into a $7bn diversified business group with interests in housing, entertainment, media and aviation.

Virtually unheard of even 15 years ago, Sahara today runs a private airline, entertainment and news television channels, a newspaper, and claims to own some 33,000 acres of real estate across India.

The group also sponsors the Indian cricket and hockey teams and is planning to move into life insurance, housing finance, consumer products, sportswear, and set up hospitals.

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The 25 directors of the group include a host of Bollywood and cricket stars and former bureaucrats.

Among them are Amitabh Bachchan, Rai, former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev and present Indian captain Saurav Ganguly.

News - Star show for India’s ‘mega-wedding’

Feb 14, 2008 @ 01:54 am by redakcjadnia

The week-long mega-wedding of the two sons of Sahara business group chief Subrata Roy will begin in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Tuesday.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai and cricketers Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar are among the 10,500 guests who have been invited.

Describing the arrangements for the twin weddings, one Indian newspaper said it “would put a maharajah to shame”.


No expenses spared

The snazzy invitation cards have special security chips embedded in them to swipe and enter the department of insurance and finance wedding venue.

Over 80 rooms and suites have been booked at a top hotel in Lucknow to house special guests - state governors, chief ministers, judges, parliamentarians and journalists, it is reported.

Aishwarya Rai


Every person whom I know in the industry will be attending the wedding


Aishwarya Rai

The Sahara business group is also running 27 chartered flights to ferry special guests to Lucknow from all over India.

A team of crack Indian chefs will cook up a wide ranging feast that will include Indian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican and Lebanese fare.

The guests will be entertained by a music group flown in from London and dancers choreographed by a top Bollywood dance director.

Top Bollywood filmmaker director Raj Kumar Santoshi will shoot a film on the wedding, a top art director will “supervise the sets”, and a Music Television (MTV) video jockey will anchor the programme.

Bollywood ’shutdown’

Reports from Bombay, also known as Mumbai, suggest that most of Bollywood has shut shop for four days beginning Tuesday as most of the stars are away at the lavish wedding.

Actress Aishwarya Rai told the AFP news agency that she had completed the shooting of her new film in time to take time out for the wedding.

“My family is going to Lucknow and as far as Bollywood is concerned every person whom I know in the industry will be attending the wedding,” said Rai, who is also a brand ambassador for the Sahara group.

On the sidelines of the wedding, the business group has also promised to marry off 101 couples and feed as many as 140,000 poor people across the country, one newspaper reports.

Rags to riches

Subrata Roy’s Sahara began in 1978 with three workers in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh as a small deposits banking finance insurance job uk business.

Today it claims to have grown into a $7bn diversified business group with interests in housing, automotive finance insurance, media and aviation.

Virtually unheard of even 15 years ago, Sahara today runs a private airline, entertainment and news television channels, a newspaper, and claims to own some 33,000 acres of real estate across India.

The group also sponsors the Indian cricket and hockey teams and is planning to move into life insurance, housing finance, consumer products, sportswear, and set up hospitals.

Subrata Roy, who calls himself the group’s “chief guardian”, is one of India’s most well-networked car finance insurance personal quote tesco
counting several top Indian politicians, businessmen and Bollywood and cricket stars as his friends.

The 25 directors of the group include a host of Bollywood and cricket stars and former bureaucrats.

Among them are Amitabh Bachchan, Rai, former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev and present Indian captain Saurav Ganguly.