In the words of the world's leading publications.

Chairman Manoj C. Benjamin's open letter to investors, customers and the public on the coordinated cyber-smear campaign against RIRIC, the resolved Bangalore land-freeze, dismissed BCSC allegations, and a call for modern Canadian cyber-crime legislation. Full 7-page PDF.

RIRIC announces that the BCSC has closed its investigation file, made no findings of wrongdoing, and will take no proceedings against Manoj Benjamin or the company. RIRIC resumes its chain of proprietary 'Smart Green Townships' in India, beginning with the Royal Garden Villas & Resort. Full 4-page PDF.

Opinion Express Vol 18 · No 3 devotes its Slicker Cities: India's Top-20 issue to India's urban future, with a 5-page cover-story Q&A (pp. 27–31) between Chairman Manoj C. Benjamin and Editor-in-Chief Prashant Tewari on the BRIC decade, India's 27M-home shortage, integrated townships and Vision 2020. RIRIC excerpt PDF + full magazine PDF.

RIRIC appoints Singapore-based CPG Corporation to master plan Phase 1 of Royal Garden City, a 20-square kilometre, USD $791 million integrated township near Bangalore's new international airport. Full 3-page PDF.

RIRIC announces a $100M USD lawsuit for slander, libel and defamation against former Vice President of Communications William Zack, alleging stolen proprietary data, a smear campaign across North America and India, and damage to the company's trademark and goodwill. Full 4-page PDF.

The Times Property section of The Times of India reports on the BMRDA ban on conversion and plan sanctions that halted township development around Bangalore. Developers including RIRIC's Karnataka partners warn the deadlock threatens investment, jobs, tax benefits under Section 80IB, and affordable housing for middle-class buyers. Full PDF.

RIRIC announces an India-exclusive partnership with Nicklaus Design to develop a chain of Jack Nicklaus Signature golf courses and PGA academies anchoring planned communities across the country.

RIRIC announces a strategic partnership with New York-based real estate investment banking firm The Greenwich Group International to secure US$1 billion in equity and debt financing for its Royal Garden City developments across Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi. Full 3-page PDF as published on Forbes.com / BusinessWire.

The Times of India reports that RIRIC's Royal Garden City — Jagdish Tytler's NRI City — will be one of India's largest FDI projects and Asia's largest new city development to date: a $2.95B build with $8.9B retail value, 35,000 residential units on 3,000 acres near Bangalore's Devanahalli airport, with Jones Lang LaSalle as real estate adviser and a £300M GEM Global Yield Fund equity line. Full PDF.

RIRIC's Chairman & CEO Manoj C. Benjamin, President Collins Benjamin and VP-Marketing Kenneth M. Corey announce the Choice Hotels rollout at a New Delhi press conference.

“With the looks, come $2.9 billion. He's the #1 FDI investor in real estate.” B&E features RIRIC's Chairman & CEO among the world's top 100 most influential people.

RIRIC assumes the lead sponsorship role for the Urban Land Institute of America's 2007 World Cities Forum in Shanghai, in conjunction with the World Bank.

An estimated $4 billion deal with Choice Hotels for 15,000 budget hotel rooms across India under the Comfort, Quality, Sleep Inn and Clarion brands.

Business Standard ranks RIRIC ahead of Salim Group, Morgan Stanley and GE Commercial Finance Real Estate among the largest foreign investors into Indian property.

Anil K. Agarwal, President of ASSOCHAM, names Royal Indian Raj International Corporation the number-one foreign direct investor in Indian real estate.

Television Eighteen-owned MoneyControl spotlights RIRIC at the top of India's foreign direct investment league table.

Vancouver, BC-based Royal Indian Raj International Corp. partners with a New York-based investment bank to secure financing for large-scale live-work communities outside India's largest cities. An RIRIC source tells GlobeSt.com that following problems in Bangalore, the first city appears headed for the outskirts of Mumbai.

RIRIC envisions South Asia's answer to Silicon Valley — “The New India — The $3.8-billion vision.”

RIRIC announces a GBP 300 million (US$547 million) equity commitment structured as an equity line of credit through UK-based GEM Global Yield Markets Fund — to develop the inaugural Royal Garden City in Bangalore.

OCO Consulting's LocoMonitor places RIRIC at the top of the FDI rankings into India for the period.