Indian Hotels Company, the country’s biggest hotel firm, today announced the opening of Taj Dubai located in the Burj Khalifa downtown area in Dubai. This hotel has 296 rooms including 2 lavish suites.
The Taj group, established in 1901, has a total of 128 hotels, resorts and palaces spanning 64 locations in India and 15 international locations in four continents.
Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday that Govt was preparing to airlift stuck citizens from war-torn Yemen despite the bombing of the country’s main international airport.
Some 4,100 Indians are currently in Yemen, including 3,100 in Sanaa, 500 in Aden and the rest around the country, the minister said.
According to sources air evacuations would take place from Yemen, which has been dove into chaos by a Huthi Shiite rebellion that has triggered Saudi-backed airstrikes on the capital Sanaa.
Asserting that India-US strategic partnership has moved into a new “strategic plus” phase, US Ambassador to India, Richard Verma, says the two countries are focused on finding creative, realistic ways to move forward.
“I believe we are witnessing a transformative time in US-India relations,” he told a Washington think tank on Friday outlining how President Barack Obama’s recent visit to India had propelled US-India relations to a new level of strategic convergence.
Recounting her heartrending tale of woe, an Indian-American mother turned to US lawmakers for help to get back her two children allegedly abducted to India by her ex-husband six years ago.
“Help me to make my voice heard in a way that shall be meaningful and allow me to be reunited with my children who need the love and nurturing of their mother,” said Bindu Philips testifying before a House panel with a few other parents of abducted children.
Dubai-based business tycoon Ram Buxani and former Sheriff of Mumbai Bakul Patel were conferred with the honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (D Litt) by a university in Mumbai.
The degrees were presented to them by Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao at a function here last evening at DY Patil University in Navi Mumbai.
Dr Buxani is the Chairman of ITL Cosmos Group in Dubai, which is a 60-year-old conglomerate. He is also among the pioneer promoters of IndusInd Bank Ltd in India and was its Director until recently, a release said.
A US police officer, accused of using excessive force against a 57-year-old Indian leaving him partially paralysed, has been indicted on federal civil rights violation charges that carries imprisonment up to 10 years.
“A federal grand jury indicted Eric Parker, the police officer who threw Sureshbhai Patel to the ground resulting in him getting partially paralyzed, for deprivation of rights under color of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta and US Attorney in the Northern District of Alabama Joyce Vance in a two-page indictment.
A US police officer, accused of using excessive force against a 57-year-old Indian leaving him partially paralysed, has been indicted on federal civil rights violation charges that carries imprisonment up to 10 years.
“A federal grand jury indicted Eric Parker, the police officer who threw Sureshbhai Patel to the ground resulting in him getting partially paralyzed, for deprivation of rights under color of law,” said Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta and US Attorney in the Northern District of Alabama Joyce Vance in a two-page indictment.
Dubai-based business tycoon Ram Buxani and former Sheriff of Mumbai Bakul Patel were conferred with the honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (D Litt) by a university here.
The degrees were presented to them by Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao at a function here last evening at D Y Patil University in Navi Mumbai.
Buxani is the Chairman of ITL Cosmos Group in Dubai, which is a 60-year-old conglomerate.
–PTI
With more trouble brewing in Yemen and the international airport there being closed, the Kerala government has opened two control rooms – in Delhi and here – for the Indians stranded there, said a state minister.
All those calling from Kerala can get in touch at 18004253939 while callers from outside should dial 0914712333339. Those working in Yemen can contact officials on the following emails: amb.sanaa@mea.gov.in; hoc.sanaa@mea.gov.in; mail@norkaroots.net
President Barack Obama has nominated an Indian-American, a former official at its Embassy in New Delhi, as the next US ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives.
Obama yesterday announced the nomination of Atul Keshap, a career foreign service official, as the next US ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives along with Alaina Teplitz as the next ambassador to Nepal.
In the first such case, the owner of a string of award-winning Indian restaurants in the UK has been charged with the manslaughter of a 38-year-old customer who died following a severe allergic reaction after eating a curry that contained peanuts.
Paul Wilson was killed by anaphylactic shock after eating the curry from a takeaway which is believed to have contained the nuts, The Telegraph reported.
Eleven influential Indian-American investors feature in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the 100 best venture capitalists with the “Midas” touch who are making big and early bets on the leading technology companies of tomorrow and earning outsized returns for their investors.
The Forbes 2015 Midas List represents the world’s 100 smartest technology investors with valuations greater than USD 1 billion and a total of 766 deals.
The Ministry of External Affairs has advised Indian nationals living in Yemen to leave the strife-torn country in view of the fragile security situation and high possibility of major conflicts and disturbances.
Queen’s University cancer researcher Madhuri Koti has discovered a biomarker that will help lead to better predictions of the success of chemotherapy in ovarian cancer patients.
Biomarkers are an indicator of a biological state or condition, and the discovery could lead to better treatment options in the fight against ovarian cancer, according to a press release from the university.
An Indian-American doctor has been sentenced to nine-months in jail for taking kickbacks for diagnostic testing referrals of his patients and failing to file tax returns on USD 1 million of income over a three-year period.
Yash Khanna, 72, of Livingston in New Jersey, had last year admitted to earning income of more than USD 381,000 in 2008, USD 400,000 in 2009 and USD 214,000 in 2010.
The Justice Department had said that he intentionally failed to file tax returns or ask for extensions during those years.
US President Barack Obama has praised the work of budding Indian-American teenage scientists who showcased their innovative exhibits, including an algorithm to identify potential drugs for cancer, ebola and tuberculosis.
Anvita Gupta, 17, of Scottsdale, Arizona, winner of Third Place Medal of Distinction for Global Good, was one of the participants of the fifth White House Science Fair which was attended by several other Indian-origin teenagers.
President Barack Obama praised the work of young Indian-Americans as he exhorted budding American scientists to “keep exploring…keep dreaming” and use the power of their ideas to change the world.
“Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know,” he said as he welcomed young scientists and engineers from across the country to showcase their inventions, robots, and discoveries at the 2015 White House Science Fair Monday.
An Indian-American brother-sister duo has been awarded record USD 9 million in damages for severe injuries sustained when they were attacked by metal bats during a brawl with two men in a night club here in 2005.
Anuj Sapra and Arti Sapra won the judgement in Manhattan Supreme Court for the incident at the city club when the two men misbehaved with them and later beat them up with baseball bats.
Five Indian nationals from a family, including two children, were killed and two minors were injured when their car plunged 200 metres down a gorge in Nepal on Sunday, police said.
The jeep in which the family from Jharkhand were travelling skidded off the road in an accident-prone area at Simkhola, Kulekhani on the Kathmandu-Hetauda route in Makwanpur district, according to Superintendent of Police Sisu Sharma.
Five Indian students in Saudi Arabia, returning home after appearing in their examinations, have been critically injured in a car crash, according to media reports.
The accident happened on Friday when the driver of the car in which the students were travelling in lost control and hit a tree on the roadside.
The condition of some of the students, who sustained head injuries, is critical, according to a Saudi Gazette report on Friday.
Several Indian-Americans are among over 100 students from across the country who would showcase their inventions, and innovative science projects at the fifth White House Science Fair hosted by President Barack Obama Monday.
Celebrating their extraordinary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) achievements, this year’s exhibits, all built, made, and designed by kids, range from patented inventions to award-winning rockets and robots.
Five 12 Grade students of Indian origin met with a severe accident in Jeddah after their car lost control and smash into a tree on Friday morning. No other car was involved at the accident scene.
All are on ventilators. Two of them are getting treated at Jeddah hospital includes Osama from Gujrat who is said to be critical with internal brain hemorrage is a major cause for concern. Huzaifa who hailed from Lucknow is also very critical with head injuries.
An undercover investigation has found Indian and Pakistani nationals among a group of illegal immigrants being smuggled out of the UK, to avoid deportation only to re-enter the country through other parts of Europe.
The expose found the migrants trying to avoid deportation to their home country by being smuggled to Italy, where they
can make an asylum claim and then re-enter the UK.
A European Union (EU) asylum loophole means that, if then caught in the UK, they are likely to be returned to Italy
rather than their country of origin.
Indian-American Rajesh “Raj” De has left his post as the top lawyer at the National Security Agency (NSA) to return to private practice as partner at the Washington law firm of Mayer Brown.
De, who left the spy agency Friday will rejoin the firm as a partner and head of a 35-lawyer practice in June, the Hill, a news site focusing on the US Congress reported.
He first made partner at Mayer Brown in 2007, before leaving for a string of government posts.
An Indian expatriate has died in a road accident in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirate (UAE), The National reported on Thursday.
The victim, in his 40s, died on the spot after driving into the back of a lorry while travelling on Sharjah’s Al Dhaid Road at around 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
Police said that the accident occurred as the victim was driving too close to the vehicle in front. His body was taken to Al Dhaid Hospital, after being recovered from the wreckage.
–IANS