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
Paris: Serbia could face tough sanctions from UEFA's disciplinary committee after racism again marred a football game in the country last week, president Michel Platini said on Tuesday. England Under-21 defender Danny Rose complained after a Euro qualifier in Serbia last week that he had been racially abused and the British government demanded serious punishment against Serbia. "Over a year ago we gave Croatia and Serbia a serious yellow card,...
10:25 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Manchester: Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has criticized Rio Ferdinand for failing to wear a T-shirt promoting an anti-racism campaign, calling the decision "embarrassing" and hinting at disciplinary action for the defender. Players across England donned the T-shirts during the warm-up before league matches on Saturday as part of the Kick It Out campaign. Ferdinand, however, didn't wear the shirt before United's 4-2 win over Stoke, in protest at the...
11:02 PM, Oct 20, 2012
London: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said English soccer's campaign against racism should be widened to include other insults. Reacting to questions in the light of John Terry's four-match ban for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand and the ugly events during and after England's under-21 match in Serbia on Tuesday, Wenger said skin colour was not the only issue. "It is not only racism, black and white, it is against all kinds...
10:14 PM, Oct 19, 2012
London: England defender Ashley Cole hits back at the Football Association after being criticized for his role in defending John Terry against a racism charge. Terry, Cole's teammate for England and Chelsea, was banned for four matches by the FA for racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand. The FA judgment released Friday said Terry was found guilty of misconduct in part due to "inconsistencies" in Cole's evidence. A...
06:20 PM, Oct 05, 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
Pune: In two separate incidents, two students hailing from the North-East were assaulted with iron rods and sticks on Saturday night in Hadapsar and Kondhwa. In the Hadapsar incident, Premanand Khondram (18), a class XII student of Poona College, who was earlier targeted by some youths near the college on Thursday, was yet again assaulted by five to six unidentified youths. Khondram sustained minor injuries in the attack. I was...
05:37 PM, Aug 13, 2012
A close friend of the gunman confirmed in an interview to CNN that he hated non-whites. ...
11:59 AM, Aug 07, 2012
London: A British couple has been jailed for punching their daughter while screaming racist insults because they said she had brought shame on their family by dating a black man. David and Frances Champion assaulted their 17-year-old daughter Jane and her boyfriend Aflonce Ncube in two attacks in St. Thomas, Swansea, the Daily Mail reported. Jane was repeatedly punched in the face, grabbed round the throat and had her hair...
03:39 AM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Devastated by the massacre of their brethren across the Atlantic, Britain's vast Sikh community blamed ignorance and racism for a rise in attacks on members of their religion since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. Sikhs say they have been singled out increasingly for harassment around the world since September 11, with attackers believing incorrectly that they are Muslim extremists because of their turbans and beards....
02:34 AM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Chelsea captain John Terry pointed to his work helping African footballers and their charities as evidence he isn't prejudiced during police interviews heard at his racism trial on Tuesday. The England defender lost the national team captaincy over accusations he racially abused Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match last October. In a statement to police heard in court on the second day of the...
04:59 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Chennai: If people were put into the slammer for say, anything up to five years, every time they referred to a North-East Indian as chinki, our states jails just wouldnt be enough. Why? Because knowingly, unknowingly or casually, most of us have used the word and not considered it a racist slur. Everyone in college calls them that, says Siddharth R, a second year student at a city college where...
05:43 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Warsaw (Poland): UEFA stepped up investigations on Tuesday into alleged racial abuse directed at Italy forward Mario Balotelli and Czech Republic defender Theodor Gebre Selassie. UEFA said it received new reports "regarding the two cases of alleged racist chanting" at the European Championship. "UEFA is now conducting further investigations," UEFA spokesman Rob Faulkner said. "There are however, no disciplinary proceedings opened at this moment in time." UEFA pledged zero tolerance...
08:02 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after the Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma pointed fingers at foreign students while talking about the increasing drug supplies in the twin cities, many of them reacted strongly, going to the extent of terming his remarks 'racist'. Everybody would like to party once in a while and how could one in a respectable position be prejudiced against foreign students?, questioned Sheikh Ahmed (name changed) who hails from...
12:20 PM, Jun 12, 2012
London: A drunken woman secretary, who hurled racist abuse at fellow Tube travellers in a tirade that was viewed by thousands of internet users across the world after being uploaded by a Sikh, was on Tuesday jailed for 21 weeks. Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, launched an expletive-laden racist rant at passengers on the Central line in London. A seven-minute video of the incident that happened on January 23, was uploaded to...
06:22 PM, May 29, 2012
London: Former England defender Sol Campbell is warning fans against travelling to Poland and Ukraine to watch the European Championship, claiming authorities are failing to tackle entrenched racism and violence in the countries. "Stay at home, watch it on TV. Don't even risk it ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin," Campbell, who is black, told the BBC. The families of two of England's black players,...
02:54 PM, May 29, 2012
Liverpool: Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has criticised the FA for the eight-match ban he was given after racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra. The 25-year-old was found guilty of racially abusing Evra last October by an independent panel appointed by the FA, and was subsequently handed an eight-game ban, but is yet to publicly apologise to the United defender, and the Uruguayan believes the punishment was wrong and that...
09:17 AM, May 26, 2012
BANGALORE:Much has been said and written about Richard Loitam, the 19 year-old Manipuri student who died in mysterious circumstances last month. However, the incident would have gone unnoticed if it was not for a concerted campaign demanding justice in view of his death that went viral and made waves throughout the country.The Justice for Loitam Richard campaign started off as a small group on Facebook, when Monika Khangembam, a student...
08:39 AM, May 24, 2012
London: Hitting back at those behind his brief suspension from the House of Lords in 2010, prominent Indian-origin industrialist Swraj Paul has insisted that he did not do anything wrong, and believes that racialism may have something to do with the unfair treatment he received. Paul was one of the Lords caught up in the expenses scandal that rocked British politics in 2010. Most of the people involved were MPs...
08:29 PM, May 20, 2012
London: Liverpool's biggest sponsors criticized the club on Monday for their conduct during the fractious Premier League match against Manchester United that was marred by Luis Suarez's refusal to shake hands with Patrice Evra. The image of one of England's most successful teams took another battering on Saturday when Suarez snubbed Evra in a pre-match handshake at Old Trafford, re-igniting the racism row that flared up when the Ururguay forward...
05:18 PM, Feb 14, 2012
