An Indian couple from Kerala, who came on a visit visa to the UAE and later entered Oman illegally, was arrested during a raid and deported to the Emirates, police said. The couple had reached Buraimi area of Oman through the Rowdha-Madham-Mahala route to visit their relatives and was arrested on Sunday in a raid, [...]
A condolence ceremony was organised for Canada-based NRI Jagbir Singh Saini who died in a road accident in Toronto last month . Cabinet Minister Bikramjit Singh Majithia and former education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan also paid condolences to the family. Saini from a small home in Gurdaspur had gone to Canada for higher studies a [...]
The year-long celebrations of the 150th birth anniversary of Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore came to an end here, with the closing ceremony held in the Egyptian House of Poetry, which was never before used for a non-Arab poet. The ceremony, organised by Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC), Embassy of India, Cairo, [...]
Ailing virologist Khalil Chishti, detained in Rajasthan for nearly two decades on a charge of involvement in a murder, arrived in Pakistan today after being given special permission by India’s Supreme Court to return home to meet his family. The 82-year-old Chishti flew from New Delhi to Islamabad in a special aircraft sent by President [...]
Less than a week before Dharun Ravi’s sentencing on hate crime charges, hundreds of Indian- Americans participated in a rally in New Jersey protesting against his conviction, saying the former Rutgers student has been made a “scapegoat” and should not be jailed. Nearly 600 Indian-Americans as well as people from various walks of life gathered [...]
Seven Indian nurses stranded in Saudi Arabia without proper documents have been rescued and repatriated following intervention by the Indian Embassy. The nurses were stranded in two separate cases without papers, an official working with the labour section of the Indian Embassy said. “In the first case, four Indian female nurses – Ashley, Bindu, Aasha [...]
Indian American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good chance of being selected as vice-presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a media report has said. “Though the nation’s first Indian-American governor may be flying a bit under the radar in the VP speculation game, his chance of being selected may [...]
The mother of the former US university student convicted of hate crimes in a webcam spying case says her son does not deserve prison time. Sabitha Ravi told several hundred supporters outside the New Jersey Statehouse that her son Dharun is suffering after being convicted of bias intimidation in March. The Indian-born Dharun Ravi had [...]
A 34-year-old woman from Auckland in New Zealand Nileshni Reddy is in Punjab these days hunting, as she puts it, for her husband. She claims that an alleged imposter Ravi Sidhu alias Amarjit Singh Sidhu deserted her after their wedding in August last year.The two met through a matrimonial website. Reddy says he simply went [...]
Indian and other non-EU citizens will not be able to appeal against refusal to grant them a family visitor visa from 2014 under new rules announced by the British Home Office. The removal of the right to appeal against the visa refusal in courts is intended to save tens of millions of pounds and free [...]
