Addis Ababa, Dec 15 In a gesture well appreciated here, Indian businessmen and the Indian community here have come to the aid of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian returnees from Saudi Arabia. Sanjay Verma, newly-appointed Ambassador of India to Ethiopia, accompanied by Mayur Kothari, the convener of the Indian Business Forum (IBF) and Rajeev Sharma, Deputy […]
Qamishly (Syria), Dec 16 UN aid agencies have begun airlifting urgently needed humanitarian aid to Qamishly in northeast Syria as winter storm Alexa dumped large amounts of snow on hundreds of thousands of homeless war victims and brought down temperatures in the region. Households displaced by the civil war are facing one of the country’s […]
Wellington, Dec 17 Two women in the New Zealand have been jailed for eight years and eight months each for killing an Indian man after luring him with promises of sex. Crystal Black, 26, and her partner Krystel Pokai, 25, appeared before Justice Murray Gilbert in the high court at Gisborne city in northeastern New […]
Chicago, Dec 17 Indian American groups have taken keen interest in the recent Indian state elections with a large number of them seeing the defeat of the Congress as a chance to root out the endemic corruption in the country and restore good governance. Community meetings have been held in several cities from Chicago to […]
Dubai, Dec 17 Two expatriates, including an Indian national, died after breathing toxic gases from a coal-burning heater in the Ha’il province of Saudi Arabia. While the Indian, 28, and the Sri Lankan, 34 died after inhaling the toxic fumes, another man, a Sri Lankan labourer, was critically injured, the Arab News reported Tuesday. Preliminary […]
Dubai, Dec 17 Three Indian nationals, accused of locking up 20 women and only allowing them to go out to work, were cleared of the charges by a Dubai court Tuesday. The three men, identified by the initials of their names, SM, 41, KM, 61, and KA, 54, were acquitted by the Dubai Criminal Court […]
The exploitation of people frequently happens in family homes and businesses, according to the findings of an independent NSW inquiry into exploitation through human trafficking in all its forms. The inquiry, conducted by the Community Relations Commission of New South Wales (CRC), found exploitation continues to involve women in the sex industry, but that forced […]
London, Dec 11 An Indian-origin couple, both aged over 100, will become Britain’s oldest married couple when they celebrate their 88th wedding anniversary later this week. Kartari and Karam Chand’s son Paul Chand, who runs the Castle pub in Bradford city, is throwing a party Dec 15 on the wedding anniversary of the couple, The […]
Indian-origin veteran anti-apartheid activist and aide of Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, who spent a substantial time with him in various South African jails, Friday paid tributes to the anti-apartheid hero after his passing away. Kathrada spent 26 years in various South African jails with Mandela, and they called each other “Madala,” meaning “old man”. Kathrada […]
Wellington, Nov 28 The woman found killed in her Welligton home in New Zealand earlier this week has been identified as Sarwan Lata Singh. Police said Thursday she was of Indian origin. A man whose name was suppressed appeared in the Wellington district court Wednesday on charges of murder and aggravated burglary at the Indian-origin […]