Teen jailed for the murder of Indian student

A teenage murderer of an Indian student has been sentenced to 13 years in jail.

Justice Paul Coghlan, who sentenced the 17-year-old murderer to jail, ordered him to serve a minimum of eight years in prison before being eligible for parole.

An Indian student, Nitin Garg, 21-years-old, was stabbed when he was walking through a park in Melbourne’s suburb of Yarraville in…

Three Indian-origin achievers in White House honors list

Washington: Three distinguished achievers of Indian-origin have made it to the celebrated White House honors list this year, highlighting India’s continued contribution to American science and technology streams. Two of them are alumni of the elite Indian Institute of Technology.

New York University’s Srinivasa SR Vardhan, Purdue University’s Rakesh Agarwal and North Carolina State Univeristy’s B Jayant Baliga are among the…

Cricket to curry, Indian students energise US B-school

New Delhi: From cricket to curry, Indian students who account for one of the largest overseas groups at the premier Darden B-school in the US have a ‘wonderful influence’ on the community and are being embraced ‘wholeheartedly’, the institution’s dean says.

“I believe Darden is better for having them and that they are better for coming to Darden,” Dean Robert F….

NRI sweet-talked into marriage, deserted

Ghaziabad: A young NRI woman from Muscat was enticed over the internet by the owner of a professional studies college to come to India. She was even given a job in the college. She married the man and was deserted after 20 days. Police have registered a criminal case against the man who along with his family is absconding.

The police said they have registered a criminal case against the…

Indian doctor cleared of obscenity charge in Britain

London: An Indian-origin doctor, who was accused of using the hands of sedated patients to perform obscene acts on himself, has been cleared after he told a tribunal his trousers did not fit and a “kicking patient” caused them to fall.

Anaesthetist Narendra Sharma worked at the Marie Stopes International Clinic in Fallowfield, Manchester. The allegations were first reported to police by staff at the clinic in April 2008.

Sharma was…

Indian American politicians rake in cash

Washington: Indian American candidates are emerging as a fundraising force for the 2012 US elections, raking in cash from a well-heeled and tight-knit community seeking to expand its political influence, according to a media report.

While Indian Americans have established themselves in a wide range of professional fields over the last half-century, matching that success in politics has proved elusive, Politico, an influential Washington newspaper, reported.

The current crop of prolific…

Violence was unprecedented, says Indian leader in Britain

New Delhi: A councillor in London’s Southall, also known as Little India, said he had never seen such large scale violence in recent years.

“There is calm in Southall now,” councillor Surinder Verma said from London. Southall is part of the London borough of Ealing and home to a large number of Indians.

Verma, who has been living in Britain for the past 40 years, said he last witnessed such violence…

No malice towards rioters: Indian-origin shop-owner

London: An Indian-origin shopkeeper in London, who lost 200,000 pounds in riots earlier this week, says he bears no ill will towards the looters who “swept in like a human tsunami” and “like a plague of locusts”.

“If I had the chance to speak to them I would make them tea and ask them why,” 79-year-old Brij Sehgal said.

Sehgal owns an electrical goods shop since the 1960s near Ealing Broadway…

British Sikh TV presenter is now Facebook hero

 A young presenter of a Sikh TV station in Birmingham who has won accolades for its coverage of the arson and looting in the British city has become a Facebook hero.

Ever since he helped pursuing policemen to catch rioters on Birmingham’s streets, the action captured by his own hand-held camera, Upinder Randhawa has become a virtual celebrity.

And scores of Britons, including Prime Minister David Cameron, are lauding the face…

160 Indians attacked abroad in 2010

New Delhi: There has been a spurt in number of attacks on Indians in foreign countries in 2010 when 160 such cases were reported, of which the maximum were from Australia, parliament was informed.

Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, said that 160 Indians were attacked compared to 91 in 2009 and 90 in 2008. The highest number of attacks were…