Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who had committed suicide in a London hospital after a prank call about Princess Kate from an Australian radio channel, was laid to rest at her husband's hometown of Shirva in Udupi on Monday evening. ...
07:40 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Jacintha Saldanha, a 46-year-old nurse of Indian origin in the UK, reportedly committed suicide after falling victim to a prank by Australian radio jockeys Mel Greig and Michael Christian of 2Day FM. Greig and Christian impersonated the Queen and the Prince of Wales to extract information about the health of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. Should the media shut out such hoax calls or is it a stray case...
03:08 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New York: A 57-year old Indian-origin store owner was stabbed to death by an unidentified assailant during a robbery attempt at his shop in Delaware last week. Hemantkumar Maganlal Chauhan of Newport, Delaware was rushed to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center where he was pronounced dead. An official of the Newport-Delaware state police said the suspect is a black male who wore dark clothes and had covered his face with...
07:21 AM, Nov 07, 2012
London: An Indian-origin man, arrested in connection with the sensational killing of an oil executive whose decomposed body was found in a car in London, was on Wednesday charged with murder. Rakesh Bhayani, 40, described as an unemployed man based in Wembley, has been charged with the murder of Carole Waugh. He has also been charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud by withdrawing nearly 280,000 pounds from...
11:05 PM, Aug 15, 2012
London: An Indian-origin man was on Thursday re-arrested in connection with the sensational murder of an oil executive who disappeared some weeks ago and whose decomposed body was found in a car in London last Thursday. Rakesh Bhayani, 40, described as an unemployed man based in Wembley, was charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud by withdrawing nearly 280,000 pounds from the account of executive Carole Waugh, 50....
06:00 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Johannesburg: A South African man on Wednesday pleaded guilty of being hired by a British-Indian to kill his honeymooning wife and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, raising the prospects of early extradition and trial of the accused businessman husband. Mziwamadoda Qwabe was one of two men accused by prosecution of being hired by British-Indian businessman Shrien Dewani to kill 28-year-old Anni Dewani, a Swedish of Indian-origin, in a...
06:36 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Indian-American cosmonaut Sunita Williams and her team docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station. ...
07:25 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: US astronaut of Indian origin Sunita Williams will lead the Expedition 33 crew as the team will conduct experiments on survival on long duration flights for distant space journeys. An officer with the US Navy, Williams, 46, took off from the iconic Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with fellow flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko from Russia and Akihiko Hoshide from Japan in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, NASA said in a...
09:24 AM, Jul 16, 2012
London: Scotland Yard on Friday charged four Indian citizens and two Ghana citizens of Indian-origin all based in London for allegedly trafficking a woman from Hyderabad for sex. Official sources confirmed that four of the suspects were Indian citizens while two were Ghana citizens of Indian-origin. The six suspects include a computer professional, an optician, a butcher, a supermarket manager and a secretary, they said. The four Indians are "...
10:18 PM, May 18, 2012
London: A woman who hurled racist abuse at an Indian-origin man on the London Underground is likely to be jailed after admitting her offence. The police had launched an investigation after a video of the incident went viral on the Internet. The incident occurred on the Central Line between St Paul's and Mile End stations on January 23 when Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, apparently in an inebriated state, lashed out against...
09:17 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: An Indian origin man and his English wife have been murdered in Birmingham, weeks after an Indian student was killed in an apparent hate crime in Manchester. The local police named the victim as Avatar Singh Kolar, 62, and Carole Kolar, 58. The police added that their son is a police officer, who found the bodies. The case comes at a sensitive time when less than a month...
06:22 AM, Jan 12, 2012
London: An Indian-origin man and his English wife have been murdered in Birmingham, the British police said on Wednesday, weeks after an Indian student was killed in an apparent hate crime in Manchester. The West Midlands Police named the victim as Avatar Singh Kolar, 62, and Carole Kolar, 58. The police added that their son is a police officer, who found the bodies. The incident comes closely after 23-year-old Indian...
10:57 PM, Jan 11, 2012
London: Concern is growing for a 20-year-old Indian-origin man who has gone missing since the early hours of January 2 from a place in Manchester, which is less than 16 kilometres from where Anuj Bidve was killed on December 26. Gurdeep Hayer, who is based in West Bormwich, travelled to Manchester on December 31 to celebrate New Year's Eve with friends. He stayed with friends in the Fallowfield area of...
05:43 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Washington: Ten years after terrorists struck US unleashing a backlash against the South Asians given their close resemblance to the hijackers from the Middle East, the community has come a long way. "Looking back, the country has changed substantially. Just after 9/11, people at large looked at South Asians with some suspicion. Things have completely changed now," Thomas Abraham, founder president and chairman emeritus of the Global Organization of People...
04:16 PM, Sep 10, 2011
London: Three general practitioners of Indian origin are among Britain's 50 best doctors who have helped shape health care, according to Pulse, a leading medical publication. The three doctors who figure in the magazine's annual list of 50 best General Practitioners are Kamlesh Khunti, Chaand Nagpaul and Kailash Chand. Khunti, 49, who graduated from the University of Dundee in 1984, is a leading diabetes expert. He was a General Practitioner...
09:52 PM, May 10, 2011
New York: US prosecutors have charged Samir Barai, an Indian-origin former hedge fund manager at Citigroup, with conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the country's biggest insider trading case. 39-year-old Barai, also founder of New York-based USD 100 million Barai Capital Management, surrendered to the FBI on Tuesday. He has been charged with conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud for his...
12:43 PM, Feb 09, 2011
Boston: Indian-American academician Subra Suresh has been confirmed unanimously by the US Senate to be the next director of the $7.4 billion National Science Foundation (NSF) for a six-year term. Suresh, dean of the School of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was nominated by President Barack Obama to the post in June this year. The US Senate confirmed the appointment on Thursday. He is expected to be sworn in...
09:05 AM, Oct 02, 2010
Toronto: Three Canadian citizens were charged for an alleged terror plot with links to senior al-Qaeda figures in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, and Misbahuddin Ahmed: believed to be born in India, both from Ottawa and Khurram Syed Sher, of London, were charged on Thursday for an alleged terror plot. The suspects are accused of conspiring with others in Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan to build improvised explosive devices...
07:29 AM, Aug 27, 2010
Jayant Patel was sentenced to seven years for each case of manslaughter and three years for grievous bodily harm. ...
12:43 PM, Jul 01, 2010
Ruby Dhalla, featured in
Maxim mag, accused of mistreating employees. ...
08:05 PM, May 05, 2009
