Three Indian-American doctors, who were derogatorily called “the Indians” and treated as “second-class citizens” by the CEO of a medical center in the US, have won a racial discrimination case in a Texas court. The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Citizens Medical Center in Victoria had violated the equal protection rights of [...]
Federal authorities have cracked down on a California-based company that used the services of call centers in India to make fake, very often threatening, debt collector calls to consumers in the US. At a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a US district court ordered stopping making of such calls. Consumers received millions [...]
Allying fears of any possible threat to Indian students enrolling in its universities, Australia today made it clear that it has taken elaborate steps to ensure their safety. At a function here to mark signing of seven memoranda of understanding between educational institutes of India and the Australian state of Victoria, its premier Ted Baillieu [...]
An Indian citizen has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to charges of getting someone else to appear for him in his driving theory test because he could not speak English. Sarbjit Singh, 35, who came to the UK a year ago and speaks only Punjabi, was also ordered to do 100 hours [...]
Indian-American Akshay Desai has been appointed to a key Republican post in Florida, making him responsible for the party’s finances in this election year. “In this election year we need the resources for victory, and Dr Desai’s long history of work for the state and our party make him a proven leader,” Republican Party of [...]
A US court is set to hear on March 15 a petition seeking a default judgement against the Congress for its alleged failure to defend the charges of conspiring, aiding, abetting and organising attacks on Sikhs in November 1984. The plea filed by a New York-based Sikh body, Sikhs for Justice is also urging the [...]
In Bathinda, a family in Alike village is hoping against hope that a youth serving a jail term in Dubai on murder charges gets some help. 21-year-old Amandeep’s parents had passed away a long back and his brother and grandmother live in the village and are struggling for survival, with him being in jail. His [...]
India-born biologist Kamal Bawa has bagged the world’s first international award for outstanding scientific work that promotes sustainable development globally. Dr Bawa, distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, will receive the Gunnerus Sustainability Award from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) at a function in Trondheim, Norway [...]
A woman travelling in the Samjhauta Express from Pakistan has been nabbed by the customs officials at the railway station in Attari, for carrying a pistol. Hasina Bano, a resident of Bareily in Uttar Pradesh, was carrying an automatic Chinese pistol, two magazines and ten live cartridges in her luggage that she brought from Pakistan. [...]
A singer from Punjab is among 16 Indians arrested in a series of operations by Britain’s immigration officials for offences that include entering into arrangements with EU nationals to register bogus marriages in order to stay in the UK. Official sources here said operations were carried out in recent months at various places in Britain, [...]
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