Indian Residents in New York City welcomed the news of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win in the Lok Sabha elections led by party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. “This is the biggest win after 40 years of Indian history. He”s (Modi) been the chief minister of Gujarat for the last 15 years and he has done a tremendous job there,” said supermarket owner Sharad Agarwal.
Indian-Americans across the country are celebrating Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party’s historic win with party supporters planning victory processions and lighting of “diyas” for three nights.
Calling it “a Diwali moment for us”, Chandrakant Patel, president of Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP), has urged all non-resident Indians to celebrate this “historic moment for India” by lighting “diyas” at their homes, community centres and temples.
A 54-year-old Indian national was arrested at an airport here today for alleged drunken behaviour.
The man was trying to board a Mumbai-bound flight from Colombo when the airport staff complained over his misbehaviour.
The Indian, who was not identified, was handed over to the airport police.
A 29-year-old Indian-origin man is facing trial in the US on charges of killing his elderly father during a struggle over a gun when he allegedly shot him several times.
Jiten Patel is accused of shooting his father, Ashwin Patel, four times in the head on January 11, 2013.
A jury will this week decide whether or not Jiten acted in self-defence when he killed his 62-year-old father, The Gaston Gazette reported.
An Indian was today sentenced to 33 months in jail and three strokes of cane for his role in rioting last year, becoming the second man from the country to be jailed for the worst street violence in four decades in Singapore.
Arumugam Karthik, 25, had thrown projectiles at three police vehicles and one fire engine and flipped over three police cars.
Karthik, who worked in the construction sector, had also set fire to one of the police vehicles at the scene of riot in Singapore’s Little India — a precinct of Indian businesses, pubs and eateries.
An Indian man in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who was sentenced to death for murdering his wife, has confessed to killing another woman in a similar fashion four years before the incident, a media report said.
The man, 23, identified as AQ, was convicted, along with his 28-year-old Pakistani accomplice, identified as RA, for strangling the former’s wife in bed in a fit of rage after she suspected that he had committed adultery and later disposing of her body in a garbage bag in Dubai’s Al Fuqa’a area in March last year, Gulf News reported Wednesday.
The beauty and creativity of Urdu will come alive at ‘Sham E Ghazal Kavi Sammelan Mushaira’ hosted by community friend Ghouse Majeed under the banner of the Urdu Hindi Cultural Association of New Zealand next weekend.
An inquest into the death of an Indian-origin woman who died two years ago in her home near Britain’s Birmingham, found that it was a case of suicide, media reported Tuesday.
Neha Khanna, 25, was found hanging with her scarf from the stairs of her home in Chelmsley Wood neighbourhood near Birmingham by her estranged husband Mohammed Junaid in October 2012.
The Birmingham Coroner’s Court heard that the couple’s relationship had broken down and Junaid had filed for divorce in 2011, the Birmingham Mail reported.
Indian American lawyer Indira Talwani has become the first Asian American federal judge in Massachusetts and the second female judge of South Asian descent nationwide with her confirmation by the US Senate.
The Senate confirmed her May 8 by 94-0 votes to fill a vacancy on the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Daughter of immigrants from India and Germany, Talwani, 53, received a bachelor of arts degree, cum laude, in 1982, from Harvard College.
An Indian taxi driver in Australia has admitted in court to assaulting a drunk woman.
Jagdeep Singh, 25, picked up the woman from The Grand hotel in Adelaide in the early hours in December 2012, and close to her home she crawled out of the taxi and vomited, ABC News reported Tuesday.
A court heard that he put his hand up the woman’s dress, touched and then kissed her.
The defence lawyer said that the cabbie should not be jailed for indecently assaulting a drunk passenger because he already faced the likelihood of deportation to India.
Two Indians have been charged for their involvement in a microcap stock kickback scheme and face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Sandip Shah, 40, was charged in an indictment with nine counts of wire fraud and Shailesh Shah, 47, was charged with two counts of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud.
Both are residents of California and were arrested in February this year.
The two face a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison each followed by three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.
Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani, extradited to South Africa from the UK to face murder charges in the killing of his Indo-Swedish wife, today appeared in a court briefly with his lawyers successfully arguing that he was not yet fit to stand trial.
Dewani, 34, wearing a dark suit and tie, made a brief appearance before Cape Judge President John Hlophe for a
pre-trial conference. Dewani’s mental condition has improved since he has been receiving treatment at Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital, the Western Cape High Court heard. “I am informed that he has been fully co-operative and
India-born Hinduja brothers, Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja, have emerged as the richest men in Britain with a net wealth of 11.9 billion pounds (about $20 billion), according to a report.
The owners of the global conglomerate Hinduja Group saw their fortune rise by 1.3 billion pounds during last year, the Daily Mail reported citing the 2014 Sunday Times Rich List that will be published May 18.
An Indian national, accused of killing an engineer, has been arrested in Nepal, police said Sunday.
Dipankar Dutta from Kolkata, the prime suspect in the killing of hydropower engineer Laxmi Kant Mishra in July last year, was arrested by Nepal Police in the bordering town of Birgunj Saturday, police said.
Nepal Police claimed at a press conference in Birgunj that they were able to apprehend the suspect with the help of their Indian counterparts.
Canada has ordered the extradition of the mother and uncle of an Indo-Canadian woman who was killed in an alleged honour killing 14 years ago, a media report said.
Jaswinder “Jassi” Sidhu, 25, was found slain in a canal in India’s Punjab state in June 2000 when she was in the country in a bid to bring back her husband Sukhwinder “Mithu” Sidhu whom her family strongly disapproved of.
The British teenaged girl who attacked an 80-year-old Sikh pensioner in a city centre in Britain’s Coventry last year has been jailed for two years by the Warwick crown court.
Coral Millerchip, 20, attacked frail pensioner Joginder Singh at the city centre in August last year, an act which was captured on camera and caused an outrage among the Sikh community in the country, the Coventry Telegraph reported Friday.
Millerchip punched Joginder Singh to the ground with his Sikh turban falling off in the brutal assault.
The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC – www.iamc.com), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, has condemned the gruesome massacre in Assam that has claimed the lives of 43 people, most of them being women and children, at the hands of Bodo militants. The victims were predominantly Bengali speaking Assamese Muslims living in the Bodo Territorial Area Districts (BTAD).
An Indian is among three housemaids sentenced to three months in jail for stealing 35,500 dirhams (about $9,500) from their employer here.
They stole, besides money, electrical home appliances and other valuables from their sponsor while she was sleeping in her house here, Khaleej Times reported Thursday.
The incident happened Dec 16 last year.
The Indian and two Bangladeshis are aged 27, 31 and 30 respectively.
Two other accused are still at large.
An Indian-origin man was seriously injured after he was shot by two gunmen riding a motorcycle in the Philippines, police said on Friday.
Sukhjinder Singh, 28, was heading home from his cousin’s place late Thursday in Zamboanga City in the Philippines’ southernmost island of Mindanao when the attack took place, the Mindanao Examiner reported.
Singh was shot twice in the head and body with a .45-calibre pistol and was immediately rushed to hospital, the police said.
An Indian origin man was seriously injured after he was shot by two gunmen riding a motorcycle in the Philippines, police said Friday.
Sukhjinder Singh, 28, was heading home from his cousin’s place late Thursday in Zamboanga City in the Philippines’ southernmost island of Mindanao when the attack took place, the Mindanao Examiner reported.
Singh was shot twice in the head and body with a .45-calibre pistol and was immediately rushed to hospital, the police said.
Indian-American cardiologist Mitul Kadakia has been granted the 2014 Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Foundation.
The award, considered a tremendous prestige in the cardiology community, is given to one graduating interventional cardiology fellow per year, out of the thousands in the US.
Indian-origin British MP Priti Patel has threatened to take legal action against a weekly newspaper article and Twitter comments that accused her of colluding with tobacco companies.
Britain’s Observer weekly Sunday published an article that accused Priti Patel of being an ex-tobacco lobbyist and said her stance on opposing plain packaging on cigarettes was motivated by this connection, which dated back to 2001.
While denying any conflict of interest, Patel, the MP for Witham in Essex, said this link with ‘Big tobacco’ has been exaggerated, the Essex Chronicle reported Thursday.
With 113,813 Indians studying in America, India is second only to China with 290,133 students among more than a million international students enrolled in nearly 9,000 US schools, according to a new report.
As of April 1, 75 percent of all international students in US schools using an F (academic) or M (vocational) visa were from Asia, said the US Student and Exchange Visitor Programme (SEVP) report.
Of them, 29 percent were from China followed by 11 percent from India, said the quarterly report compiled by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
An Indian-origin executive at an investment advisory firm here has been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission with fraud and of siphoning investor proceeds to pay for his luxury car payments and settle other personal expenses.
Vineet Kalucha, 49, the chief investment officer of Aphelion Fund Management and another executive, has been charged with distributing falsified performance results to prospective investors in two hedge funds they managed.
Three Indian-Americans along with 11 others have been sworn in as members of a presidential commission charged with working to improve the quality of life of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs).
President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs will advise President Barack on innovative ways to engage AAPIs across the country and to improve their health, education, environment, and well-being.