A Sikh man has been admitted to a hospital after being shot at several times by some unidentified attackers in the US state of Florida. The victim Kanwaljit Singh, 46, was attacked by the truck-borne assailants near Daytona Beach on last Saturday night. ...
08:25 AM, Feb 26, 2013
A 31-year old woman, accused of shoving an Indian immigrant to his death in front of a subway train in December as she hated "Hindus and Muslims", has been found mentally fit to stand trial and was indicted on charges of murder as a hate crime by a US grand jury. Erika Menendez of Queens pushed Sunando Sen, 46, in front of an oncoming subway train on December 27, telling...
03:10 PM, Jan 15, 2013
A 31-year-old New York woman charged with the murder of an Indian immigrant has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after she laughed at her arraignment telling the judge she thought it would be "cool" to push the victim in front of a train. Erika Menendez has been charged with 'murder as a hate crime' for pushing 46-year-old Sunando Sen in front of an oncoming train at a subway...
03:07 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Sunando Sen, the 46-year-old Indian immigrant who died after being pushed in front of a subway train here by a woman, will be cremated on Monday by his friends. Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao expressed her condolences on the death of Sen on micro-blogging site Twitter, describing it as a senseless and foul murder. ...
04:59 AM, Dec 31, 2012
A 31-year-old woman suspected of shoving an Indian immigrant in front of a subway train has been charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime after she told the police that she hated Hindus and Muslims since 9/11. Prosecutors Saturday identified the woman, who allegedly shoved India-born Sunando Sen of Queens, in front of a subway train Thursday as Erika Menendez of Bronx. ...
06:14 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Describing bullying and harassment of Sikh children as a "serious problem", the US Department of Justice has recommended that crimes against Sikhs and Hindus should be added to the religion-based hate crimes tracked by the FBI to help law enforcement officials tackle the problem. ...
09:58 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Washington: An independent FBI advisory board is being asked to examine whether the current hate crime reporting categories should be expanded to include those against the Sikhs, a top US official announced on Wednesday. Such a move by the Department of Justice comes in the wake of top US lawmakers and human rights bodies and Sikh organisations writing to the Attorney General in this regard. This week as many as...
09:28 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Washington: In the wake of the Wisconsin gurdwara shooting that killed six worshippers, a US Congressional hearing on hate crimes would be held on Wednesday, a move welcomed as "unprecedented" and "monumental" by Sikh groups and human rights bodies in the country. To be presided over by Senator Dick Durbin, Chairman of the Senate subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, the Congressional hearing is being held at...
01:29 PM, Sep 16, 2012
The Wisconsin Gurudwara, which saw a shooting attack a week ago, held its first Sunday prayer service since the incident. ...
08:52 AM, Aug 13, 2012
Oak Creek: As thousands of mourners paid their last respects to six Sikh worshippers gunned down at a Sikh gurdwara at Oak Creek, US Attorney General Eric Holder called it "an act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime." Holder spoke at an emotional memorial service at Oak Creek High School for the victims of the attack at the gurdwara in a Milwaukee suburb that brought an unending...
10:48 AM, Aug 11, 2012
The shooting in a Wisconsin Gurudwara by an alleged White supremacist has again raised the issue of hate crime in the US. In an exclusive interview to Suhasini Haidar on World View, Indian ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao said the Sikhs are very much vibrant part of the fabric of America's democracy and the people of the US don't want the Gurudwara incident to happen again. Here is the ...
01:31 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Prof Walter Russell Mead, Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, US thinks the Wisconsin shooting may be an act of hate crime by the White supremacist groups. ...
10:49 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Washington: The slain gunman Wade Michael Page, who shot dead six worshippers at a Gurdwara in Wisconsin, preached and espoused white supremacist views even while he served in the US Army from 1992 to 1998. Former colleagues of the alleged gunman told to US newspaper Star and Stripes which reports on matter affecting the US armed forces, that Page did little to hide his white supremacist views among his servicemen....
08:37 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Wisconsin: The gunman who killed six people at the Wisconsin gurudwara in the US hated non-whites and pictures show him posing against the Nazi Swastik symbol. Gunman Wade Michael Page's friend, in an interview with CNN said that he spoke about racial cleansing to his group of friends. Reports say Page recently separated from his girlfriend. The 40-year-old ex-army veteran had possible links with white supremacist groups. Wade Michael Page...
11:34 AM, Aug 07, 2012
El Cajon: Shaima Alawadi and her family fled Iraq nearly two decades ago as Saddam Hussein crushed a Shiite uprising, settling in the US so they would no longer face persecution, a family friend said. Alawadi, 32, grew up in the country's largest Iraqi enclaves, wore the Muslim headscarf and volunteered at the mosque. Now, after her body was found severely beaten in her suburban San Diego home, police, the...
07:46 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Indian Student Anuj Bidve's murder in Manchester has brought the focus back on racially motivated crimes in the UK. ...
10:00 AM, Jan 10, 2012
London: Universities UK, the representative body of varsities in the UK, on Wednesday sought to reassure Indian and other international students that the country is "safe and tolerant" with low levels of violence and street crime. Expressing sadness at the killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford on December 26 in an unprovoked attack, Professor Eric Thomas, president of Universities UK, said that such incidents were rare in the...
09:46 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Pune: The UK police have handed over Indian student Anuj Bidve's body to the Indian high commission and the Bidve family will fly to London on Wednesday to bring back Anuj's body. Chief Superintendant, Manchester Police Russ Jackson said, "Our role has been to meet the family to explain about the case so far and of course to go through the last moments of Anuj's life." "We met with Anuj's...
06:08 AM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: Slain 23-year old student from Pune, Anuj Bidve's body has been handed over to Indian High Commission in UK on Tuesday. Bidve was killed on December 26 in UK. The report of the second post-mortem has matched with the first post-mortem. Bidve's body will be flown back to India in coming three days. His family, however will leave to UK on Wednesday. A team of Manchester Police officials...
10:49 PM, Jan 03, 2012
The Manchester Police have termed it a hate crime and have charged a 20-year-old Kiaran Stapleton with the murder of Bidve. ...
09:46 PM, Jan 03, 2012
