A court in Dubai has awarded one million dirhams (or $272,257) to an Indian expatriate as compensation after a car accident left him paralysed, a daily reported Monday.
Identified as A.K., the man was travelling in a car from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah in 2012 when he met with the accident in Dubai, Gulf News reported. The Emirati driver of the car was later arrested and convicted for the accident.
An Indian-American cardiologist has won the American College of Cardiology’s prestigious Simon Dack Award for Outstanding Scholarship in recognition of his contributions to its peer-reviewed medical journals.
Sumeet Chugh, associate director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and a leading expert on heart rhythm disorders such as sudden cardiac arrest and arterial fibrillation, will receive the award at the 40,000-member medical society’s 63rd Annual Scientific Session in Washington.
An Indian origin boy has told the US govt. that they could save 400 million dollars by just changing their typeset.
Teenager Suvir Mirchandani calculated that if the government chose Garamond font instead of Times New Roman , it could reduce ink use by about 25 as each character is lighter and thinner.
Mirchandani told CNN that Ink is two times more expensive than French perfume by volume.
The idea germinated while he was working on how much his school in Pennsylvania could save in ink. (ANI)
An Indian–origin Dutch woman has been presented with the “World of Difference” award here in recognition of her non–governmental work in Delhi among destitute women.
Co–founder of WORK+SHELTER, a Delhi-based NGO, Namita Krul–Taneja, was presented the award by Lisa Kaiser Hickey, president of The International Alliance For Women (TIAW) at a ceremony held here.
Three Indians and four persons of Indian origin have received the 2013 World of Difference Awards’ from US-based The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) for their work for women’s empowerment.
The 100 winners in different categories were presented the awards by TIAW president Lisa Kaiser Hickey at a ceremony here Thursday.
Abhay Khandagle, a Pune University professor of Zoology, has been recognised as “a champion for women’s empowerment for the past 20 years”.
Premarital sex was the cause behind the murder of an Indian-origin student from Singapore at a hotel in Australia, a media report said.
Police alleged that Senthill Kumar Arumugam, 31, stabbed to death 27-year-old Meena Narayanan, at the Travelodge hotel in BrisbaneTuesday.
Arumugam, an engineer working in South Africa, allegedly said he had sex with his victim in Singapore, but being Hindus they realised it was culturally wrong to have sex outside marriage. This had caused the pair depression, the Herald Sun reported Thursday.
An Indian expatriate sustained serious injuries after being assaulted in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the media reported.
Mohammed Rasheed, hailing from Kerala, said he was returning home Monday night when a group of unidentified people suddenly attacked him without any provocation, The Arab News reported Thursday.
Rasheed, who works in a furniture shop in Abqaiq, a gated community of the Saudi Aramco oil company, sustained serious injuries in his left eye and was rushed to a hospital in Dammam, the capital of Eastern Province, for an emergency operation.
An Indian student was arrested in the Philippines’ capital Manila on charges of drug peddling to students in Manila and parts of central Philippines, police said.
A student of De La Salle University (DLSU) in Malate area of Manila, Prabhjot Gill, 18, was arrested for supplying illegal drugs to students from a place near the campus, during the police operation Monday, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Wednesday.
Kuwait-Kerala Sunni Muslim Council is conducting 2 day grand festival at Abbasiya, Central Indian School
On Thursday, Friday 27th & 28th March 2014. Many distinguished guests are already arrived from India.
Researchers have found that Indian women who are more educated than their husbands, who earn more, or are the sole earners in their families are more likely to experience frequent and severe intimate partner violence (IPV) than women not employed or less educated than their spouse.
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has dismissed her Indian-origin Minister for People and Social Development Glen Ramadharsingh for his disorderly conduct on board a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) domestic flight.
“As I have always said, regardless of the consequences, I remain resolved to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do,” Persad-Bissessar, herself a person of Indian origin, said in a statement Tuesday night.
An Indian was stranded for five days at Abu Dhabi airport as he forgot his passport in the plane while transiting for another flight to Saudi Arabia, according to a media report today.
Mohammed Ali, a resident of Kerala, had set out from Calicut to Riyadh via Abu Dhabi on March 6.
The flight he took was diverted to Al Ain due to heavy fog and thus reached Abu Dhabi airport after some delay, Emirates 24/7 quoted sources as saying.
An Indian-origin family of a teenager, who came close to being deported from the UK on her own, is to be sent back to Mauritius after losing its appeal.
The Bageerathi family’s case came to light last week when it emerged that the eldest daughter, Yashika, was due to be separated from her family and deported alone because she was considered an adult.
She was given what appeared to be a last-minute reprieve yesterday when it was claimed that British Airways had refused to put her on its flight and she was returned to a detention centre, the Guardian reported.
The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC – www.iamc.com ), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, condemned the threats to senior lawyer Mr. Mehmood Paracha by vested interests operating through underworld goons. IAMC has demanded the state administration nab the culprits and take immediate measures for the safety and security of the senior lawyer. Advocate Paracha is representing German bakery bomb blast case convict Mirza Himayat Baig.
A senior Indian official is on a visit to the UAE to discuss the implementation of the recently launched MGPSY, a special social security scheme to benefit over five million overseas workers.
During his four-day visit – which began on March 22, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs Secretary Prem Narain will meet the service providers in the region like Bank of Baroda and Alankit Assignments besides Indian Associations at the Consulate in Dubai and at the Indian Social Centre in Abu Dhabi to finalise the implementation of the scheme.
The body of a Indian man who was stabbed to death by an Ethiopian housemaid in Saudi Arabia last month has been flown home.
Syed Sajid, a native of Golconda, who had been working with a Saudi family in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam for two years, was murdered February 17 by an Ethiopian woman who worked with the same family.
Indian embassy officials and social worker Naaz Vankkam visited the Dammam Central Hospital prior to the body’s repatriation on Thursday, the Arab News reported today.
Eleven Indian women, working as cleaners in a hospital in Saudi Arabia have appealed for help after they were allegedly not paid their salaries for the past nine months, a media report said Saturday.
The workers, hailing from the south Indian state of Kerala, are on contractual jobs for a cleaning company in the hospital in Saudi capital Riyadh and have not joined duty since March 16, the Arab News reported Saturday.
They said they would return to work only after their salaries were paid.
The report said the cleaning company owners could not be contacted Friday.
The body of the Indian man who was stabbed to death by an Ethiopian housemaid in the Saudi Arabian city of Dammam last month has been flown home, media reported.
Syed Sajid, a native of the south Indian city of Golconda, who had been working with a Saudi family in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam for two years, was murdered Feb 17 by an Ethiopian woman who worked with the same family.
Indian embassy officials and social worker Naaz Vankkam visited the Dammam Central Hospital prior to the body’s repatriation Thursday, the Arab News reported Saturday.
A 26-year-old Sikh man was today jailed for 10 years for making an attempt on the life of Lt Gen (retd) Kuldip Singh Brar, who led the 1984 Operation Bluestar to flush out extremists from the Golden Temple.
The pro-Khalistani supporters tried to slash the throat of 78-year-old Brar in a revenge attack on the streets of central London in 2012 for his role in leading the operation at the Sikh holy shrine in Amritsar.
Fourteen Indians were today jailed for clashing with a group of people in Singapore’s Little India, a precinct of South Asian businesses where the country’s worst riot in 40 years broke out last year.
Eleven of them were each sentenced to seven months in jail, and the remaining three will serve an additional week for stealing food and beer from supermarkets.
The 14 men, aged between 21 and 39, are mostly construction workers from India. They have pleaded guilty to being part of an unlawful assembly in relation to the fight on on March 31, 2013.
Two Indian nationals here have been accused of defrauding nearly USD 4,00,000 from the Ministry of Finance after forging 3,160 online transactions.
The accused – identified as 23-year-old MR and 24-year-old AA – worked at the Al Baraha hospital in Dubai that processed e-transactions for the Ministry of Health’s Administration of Preventive Medicine.
The duo have taken advantage of a technical glitch that, according to prosecution records, hit the e-dirham payment system before they embezzled 1.44 million Dirhams (USD 3,92,050) from Finance Ministry.
Fourteen Indian nationals pleaded guilty Thursday to being part of an unlawful assembly in relation to a fight here last year.
The Indians, mostly construction workers, got into a fight with another group March 31, 2013, near the Farrer Park MRT station in Little India.
The prosecution called the incident “a large scale public order offence”, the Straits Times reported.
An estimated 40 to 50 persons took part in this clash, including the 14 who pleaded guilty in court Thursday.
They can face jail term of up to two years and a fine.
Two Indian nationals have been accused of defrauding more than 1.44 million dirhams (about $400,000) from the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) finance ministry after forging 3,160 electronic transactions.
The employees, identified only as MR, 23, and AA, 24, worked at the Al Baraha Hospital in Dubai that processed e-transactions for the UAE health ministry’s administration of preventive medicine, media reported.
The two were responsible for receiving applications and fees from customers, then paying them electronically to the ministry.
At least 11 Indian immigrants have fallen victim to an immigration scam in the past six weeks in New Zealand, the media reported Thursday.
Detective sergeant Graham Shand said the scam that appeared to be based outside the country was targetted at migrants who had recently returned from holidays in India, according to the New Zealand Herald.
“I’ve had 11 complainants, all of Indian descent. All have flown over to India, and when they’ve arrived back in New Zealand they have been contacted by a number they believed to be Immigration New Zealand,” the detective was quoted as saying.
In a thrilling discovery, two Indian-American researchers have identified a new potential therapeutic target for controlling high blood sugar – a finding that could help millions suffering from type 2 diabetes worldwide.
Researchers showed that lipid molecules called phosphatidic acids enhance glucose production in the liver.
The findings suggest that inhibiting or reducing production of phosphatidic acids may do the opposite.