Washington, Oct 22 – Hari Prasad Vemuru, a jailed Indian e-voting researcher, is one of the four winners of the 2010 Pioneer Awards of San Francisco headquartered Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a leading civil liberties group. The three other winners are transparency activist Steven Aftergood; public domain scholar James Boyle; and legal blogger Pamela Jones [...]
London, Oct 21 – Anglo-Indian author Salman Rushdie has signed a worldwide deal to publish his memoirs in 2012, publishers Random House said in London Thursday. ‘I have waited a long time to write this memoir, until I felt I was ready to do it. I’m ready now,’ the 63-year-old award-winning author said in a [...]
London, Oct 21 – Indian-born business tycoon and member of Britain’s House of Lords Swraj Paul was Thursday suspended from the house along with two other legislators for wrongly claiming reimbursement for their stay in London, a media report said. According to BBC, three peers have been suspended from the House of Lords and told [...]
London, Oct 21 – An Indian origin hotelier left his 700,000 pounds five-bedroom home in Britain while it was being refurbished and on return he was shocked to find that 15 jobless Italians had moved in. Connan Gupta felt that he deserved a week-off while refurbishing his Victorian home in Camberwell, London. So, he shifted [...]
Melbourne, Oct 21 – A man who brutally hit and robbed an Indian student last year in this Australian city claimed that the assault was not racist, though during the attack, he said: ‘Shut up, you Indian mother******’. Shayne Comensoli, 20, and his friend Lennon Metaxas randomly targetted Indian student Lucky Singh, 23, in a [...]
Melbourne, Oct 21 – Indian student Nitin Garg, who was brutally stabbed to death here in January, had been threatened and chased on at least two other occasions before his death, a court was informed. Twentyone-year-old Garg was viciously stabbed when he was going to work at Hungry Jack’s restaurant in Yarraville in January. He [...]
Washington, Oct 21 – An Indian American man accused of sexually assaulting a woman while she slept during a flight has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Ranchhodbhai Lakha, 61, of Alpharetta, Georgia, faces charges of assault and abusive sexual contact for the Sep 28 incident on a Delta Air Lines flight from Dallas [...]
Florence, Oct 21 – The Satyajit Ray classic ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ will be this year’s highlight at River to River, Italy’s only festival of Indian cinema that is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Four films by India’s master filmmaker – ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’, ‘Jalsaghar’, ‘Charulala’ being the other three – will be screened in the retrospective [...]
Washington, Oct 20 – A prominent Sikh American leader has expressed the hope that President Barack Obama would not drop his plan to visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar over a misunderstanding over what headgear he should wear. ‘The Obamas can choose to wear anything which they like. This is total misunderstanding and there is [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 20 – Dismissing growing speculation since last year that Britain may axe its band of Gurkha soldiers from Nepal due to a funds crunch, the British government said Wednesday that it had no such plans. The British Embassy in Kathmandu, while making public the new British national security strategy and a strategic defence [...]
New Delhi, Oct 20 – Media conglomerate Network18 will be felicitating 10 young Indian leaders for their contribution in their respective fields at the ‘Young Indian Leaders’ award ceremony. ‘Leaders who walked the path less traversed, dared to think different and were agents of change in their respective fields paving the road for India to [...]
New Delhi, Oct 19 – India Tuesday signed a Social Security Agreement with South Korea, a step that would ‘enhance movement of professionals between the two countries and strengthen bilateral trade and investment’. ‘The Social Security Agreement between the Republic of Korea and India was signed by Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and Minister [...]
London, Oct 19 – An Indian-origin woman was hacked to death with a machete by contract killers on the orders of her estranged husband because she wanted a divorce, a British court has heard. Geeta Aulakh, 28, was hacked to death allegedly by three men, all of them of Indian-origin, in November last year in [...]
Washington, Oct 19 – IIT Madras alumnus, Subra Suresh, has been sworn in as the director of America’s National Science Foundation (NSF), the top US science body with a $7.4 billion budget to support scientific institutions. ‘We are very grateful to have Subra taking this new task,’ said President Barack Obama at the White House [...]
Ipoh (Malaysia), Oct 18 – Dinitha Ambiga, an undergraduate student, beat 11 other contestants to win the Miss Saree Queen 2010 (Perak) beauty pageant held here. The 22-year-old, who aspires to be a human resource manager, took home RM1,000($322), a crown, a saree and gifts. The first-runner-up was lecturer T. Subashinee, 24, who also won [...]
Auckland, Oct 18 – Television New Zealand received 1,500 complaints after a show host made an on-air racist comment on Indian-origin Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand and mocked the name of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. TVNZ said that it has upheld 1,500 complaints against its former Breakfast host Paul Henry. New Zealand Herald Monday [...]
Abu Dhabi, Oct 18 – Time was when a garage would be turned into a movie hall and people would sit on sand to watch on. But the movie experience has seen a sea change in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – today some cinema companies operate more than 300 screens equipped with world-class technology [...]
London, Oct 17 – Three British lawmakers, including two Indian-origin MPs, probed over the expenses they claimed face suspension from the House of Lords, a media report said Sunday. The trio — Lord Swaraj Paul, Lord Amir Bhatia and Bangladeshi-born Baroness Uddin — are expected to be officially recommended for censure in a statement by [...]
Washington, Oct 17 – To the delight of Sikh Americans, US President Barack Obama, the first chief executive to celebrate Guru Nanak’s birthday at the White House, is expected to visit Sikhs’ holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, in India’s Amritsar city. While Obama’s schedule for his visit to India next month has not been announced, [...]
Manila, Oct 17 – Two Indians and a Filopino abducted in Philippines Thursday were rescued after a shootout in which five kidnappers were killed, police said. The kidnappers were killed by the law enforcers in a shootout Saturday morning in a province south of Manila, Xinhua reported. Police identified the hostages as Pavitter Singh and [...]
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