Leading NRI businessmen Srichand Hinduja and Gopi Hinduja, Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Hinduja Group, have emerged as the richest Asians in Britain in 2013. After playing second fiddle for years to steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, the London-based Hinduja brothers have come out top this year with net wealth assessed at 12.5 billion pounds - up 3 billion pounds on the 2012 figure. ...
08:23 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Melbourne: Indians are now the focus of racist attacks in Australia than in the past when people from east Asian descent were the primary targets, a major social survey has found. The targets of racism in Australia have changed and the Indian community is now most often singled out rather than people of east Asian descent in the past, despite official attempts in recent years to calm anger over a...
04:09 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New York: Sixty six per cent of Asian community in the US owns smartphones, making them the leading users of such devices in the country, according to the findings of a new survey. As many as sixty-six per cent of Asians, 56 per cent of Hispanics and 55 per cent of African-Americans use smartphones to check e-mails, play games and surf the Web, the Neilson study found. Around 55.5 per...
12:33 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Melbourne: A contractor of Australia's supermarket chain Coles has come under fire for publishing a job advertisement, which barred Indians or Asians from applying. "Store requires no Indians or Asians please. Must speak English (sic)", read the online ad posted on Sunday. The ad on the Gumtree website sought cleaners for a supermarket at Eastlands Shopping Centre in Hobart, according to local media reports. It triggered outraged on social media...
03:26 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Washington: A controversy-prone former mayor has landed himself in a soup again, this time for his remarks targeting "dirty" Asian shops in his poor black-majority district, a racial slur that invited all-round criticism. Washington DC Councilman Marion Barry, 76, who just after winning a primary on Tuesday declared that "we got to do something about these Asians" had to apologise quickly after his comments ignited anger. Addressing his victory rally...
10:06 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Washington: Asian Americans with college degrees are more likely to be jobless than their white counterparts in this harsh economy, according to a report. A study by the Economic Policy Institute entitled "Unfairly Disadvantaged" found that, while Asian Americans had lower overall jobless rates than whites from 2007-2010, those with Bachelor's degrees or higher faced tougher odds of finding work than their Caucasian counterparts, reported Xinhua. The findings are important,...
07:51 AM, Apr 07, 2012
London: Twenty four people of India-origin are among the nearly 3,000 suspects being tried for last year's shocking riots in London and other towns of England, new analysis of data shows, contradicting the belief that Asians had stayed away from the violence. The cases of those arrested are continuing in various courts, but figures released by the Ministry of Justice show that as of February 1, 2012, the number of...
03:56 PM, Feb 26, 2012
The Indian hockey team rejected the cash award of Rs 25,000 per player for their performance in the Asian Champions Trophy. ...
08:30 PM, Sep 14, 2011
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
India hockey coach Michael Nobbs talks about the team's upcoming clash against Pakistan in the Asian Champions Trophy. ...
08:54 PM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: Despite being well educated, ambitious and driven, Asian-Americans often feel excluded from corporate America and hit a bamboo ceiling that prevents them from reaching top jobs, a new study showed. Asian-Americans account for fewer than two percent of Fortune 500 CEOs and corporate officers, according to the research from the Center for Work-Life Policy, a non-profit think tank in New York City. "Fully rounded programs should not only...
11:54 AM, Jul 26, 2011
London: It took two Australian legal academics to unearth old skeletons lying in the British government's cupboard. While submitting a university paper they disclosed that the British government's official records on virginity tests on Indian and Pakistani women - entering Britain to marry - was on a far larger scale than estimated. The practice had stopped in 1979 after an Indian teacher's case was highlighted in the British media and...
08:39 AM, May 11, 2011
London: A former Swiss private banker handed over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday, saying he wanted to draw attention to financial abuses. Rudolf Elmer, 55, headed the office of Julius Baer in the Cayman Islands until he was fired by the bank in 2002. He is scheduled to go on trial in Switzerland on Wednesday for breaching bank secrecy. Swiss...
08:15 AM, Jan 18, 2011
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Asians and Asian Americans made smaller concessions if their opponent was angry rather than non-emotional. ...
12:27 PM, Jul 22, 2010
Indians among group complain to police, allege racism. ...
12:18 PM, Jan 16, 2010
Three local teens launched a savage racist attack. ...
11:20 PM, Oct 24, 2009
Community to hold its own spelling bee competition in America. ...
07:09 PM, Aug 21, 2009
Asian countries lose their virginity at a much older age. ...
11:20 PM, Jul 05, 2007
Indians were the single largest group to get British citizenship in 2006, latest official figures indicated. ...
01:24 PM, May 26, 2007
Here’s a look at the Asian beauties who are setting Mexico on fire at the Miss Universe competition to be held on May 28. ...
09:23 PM, May 16, 2007
