An organisation that governs and cares for the transgender community in Malaysia has lodged a police complaint on a hate video that sought physical violence against the community. The Malaysian Tamil Thirunangai Organisation lodged the complaint at the Dang Wangi police station in Kuala Lumpur after a group of Indian-Malaysian transgender women complained about the […]
In a miraculous surgical feat, an Indian-American surgeon has gifted a pair of new ears to an eight-year-old boy in the US, media reported. Elijah Bell, a second-grade student at the Frazer Elementary in Stark county, Ohio, was born with bilateral atresia microtia — a rare birth defect where the outer ears are undeveloped. But […]
A n Indian-American classical dancer is set to perform at a concert in California this weekend to raise funds for a high-poverty elementary school, a media report said. Sharanya Balaji, a 16-year-old senior from Harker school, said she wants to help the Grant Elementary School which lacks basic education facilities, mercurynews.com reported on Friday. “It […]
Nearly 75 percent of all cigarettes in India are sold as single sticks valued at close to 30 percent of the Rs.35,000 crore (over $5 billion) Indian market, an international journal says. The sale of single cigarettes, which is not in the interest of public health, is an important factor for early experimentation, initiation and […]
The Supreme Court’s decision to waive off the rest of the jail term of the powerful Ansal brothers, convicted for causing death in the Uphaar cinema fire by their negligence, hasn’t gone down too well in the judicial corridors and also evoked much disquiet among the average litigant about the court’s lenient attitude towards the […]
Delhi is among the most unsafe places for foreigners in India with 164 cases of heinous crimes registered here in 2014, the latest data released by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) has revealed. Of the 164 foreigners targeted, 135 were tourists. Goa follows close on the heels of the national capital with 73 cases, […]
Minister for Finance, Services and Property Dominic Perrottet and Minister for Small Business John Barilaro have welcomed the commencement of an information roadshow on the NSW Government’s Small Business Grants employment incentive scheme. The $27 million scheme provides eligible businesses with a $2,000 grant for each new full-time worker they employ, and a pro-rated grant […]
ARIES This week, family will be a source of stress. Stay calm and take away all the feeling out your chest, no matter how tough the situation is. You’ll spend half of this week planning and dealing with your finances. Save money and invest it wisely for your future. It will be a positive week […]
ARIES Determination and hardwork is what you need most this week. It is also important to keep in mind when it comes to your family even when things get shaky and sensitive, as they might this weekend. Finances is all what you have in your mind but you don’t need to be radical about it. […]
Did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose die of third-degree burns on August 18, 1945, after his plane crashed in Formosa (now Taiwan) or did he survive and escape to Siberia? Or was the “‘crash”‘a mere hoax to help him flee to safety? The questions have been haunting, agitating and engaging Indians, in particular Bengalis, for 70 […]