Washington, May 18: An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into the United States, the Department of Justice said. Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar, 33, along with Brazilian national Fabiano Augusto Amorim were sentenced yesterday to serve 36 months in prison for their roles in smuggling undocumented [...]
An unemployed Singaporean man of Indian origin has been jailed for nine months for attacking his wife with a knife and hitting her with a fan and a flask, a media report said today. S I George Raj, 42, was also fined Singaporean dollars 2,000 yesterday for criminal trespass and contravening a personal protection order [...]
Washington, May 17: A key Senate committee has confirmed the nomination of a Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan as a judge to the DC Circuit Court, which is considered to be the second top court of the US after the Supreme Court. Described as “trailblazer” by the US President Barack Obama, Srinivasan’s nomination to the US Court [...]
London, May 16 : The family of 31-year-old Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died of blood poisoning at a hospital in Ireland last October, will soon decide whether to pursue a case in the European courts. Savita had a miscarriage at 17 weeks as Galway Hospital staff turned down her two requests for termination because [...]
Washington, May 16 : Brian Murphy, the police officer who was shot 12 times by the lone gunman as he tried to save Sikh worshippers from the unprovoked firing at a Wisconsin Gurdwara last year, has announced his retirement. Murphy told the local WISN TV that he submitted his resignation yesterday and would retire on [...]
Nawaz Sharif’s decision to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Pakistan is a “positive sign”, the United States has said as it expressed willingness to work with the new government there. “We have seen those comments. I don’t want to analyze it too much, but to say that it is a positive step and we [...]
A US court in Wisconsin has reserved its decision in the alleged human rights violation case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal after completing hearing in the matter. The district court had taken up a petition filed by New York-based rights body ‘Sikh for Justice’, which had alleged that Badal committed “grave human rights [...]
Midwives and nurses in Ireland have warned that staff shortages at maternity units in the country could lead to a repeat of system failures that were blamed for Savita Halappanavar’s death. The 31-year-old dentist had died at Galway University Hospital on October 28, 2012, after a miscarriage at 17 weeks. An inquest into her death [...]
Prime Minister of the UAE has hailed the close relationship between India and the gulf country saying that the social and trade ties between the two nations have become stronger now. “Since the early 1950s, the UAE, and Dubai in particular, have been working on the promotion of these good relations with India,” said Shaikh [...]
US President Barack Obama will meet visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the situation in Syria, Afghan transition and the upcoming G-8 summit, the White House has said. “The Prime Minister’s visit will highlight the fundamental importance of the US-UK relationship through which together we address a broad range of shared global and [...]
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