About one in four business school graduates in India find jobs in America, second only to China, which sends 38 percent of its alumni to the US, according to a new survey.
While 64 percent of Indian business graduates stay in their home country, 23 percent go the US and two percent to Canada.
In the case of China, 48 percent stay home, while eight percent prefer Hong Kong as their second job destination after the US.
More than half of Sikh children in US schools endure bullying with over two-thirds of turbaned Sikh children among its worst victims, according to a new national report. Sikh children have been punched kicked, and had their turbans ripped off by fellow students, it found.
Focused on Seattle, Indianapolis, Boston, and Fresno, California metropolitan Areas, the report, entitled “Go Home Terrorist,” – A Report on Bullying Against Sikh American School Children,” was released last week on Capitol Hill, seat of US Congress.
At the age when kids are just starting to learn their alphabets, a five-year-old boy, based in Haryana, India, has left psychologists stunned with his high IQ of 150 points that is similar to renowned scientist Albert Einstein.
According to Gulf News, Kautilya Pandit has extraordinary grasping skills and can recall random information about some 213 countries.
Pandit is also aware about domestic and international affairs, space, geographical borders, natural resources and such at his tender age.
Lakshmi Logathassan, an indian-origin law student from the University of Western Sydney, has won the NSW 2014 ‘Young Woman of the Year’ award. Logathassan came up with ‘The Laptop Project’, a program which takes government-funded laptops that are no longer needed by Australian students and sends them to students in rural and remote schools of Kenya and Sri Lanka, the Indian Sun reported.
An Indian-origin man in Singapore has been jailed for 12 weeks for hitting his wife with a motorcycle exhaust pipe, breaking her collarbone and left finger after he suspected she had an affair with someone.
Inderjit Singh, 36, Thursday admitted to hitting Amrita Dubey, 26, with a 50-cm long pipe twice at his home in Woodlands July 27, 2012, the Straits Times reported.
Singh was also fined S$2,000 (about $1,500) for using abusive words for a police sergeant Jan 2 this year.
A district court heard that Singh returned home drunk around 1 a.m. July 27, 2012, and woke his wife up.
Indo-American comedian Aziz Ansari has turned to his fans online for tips on relationship as a part of research for his new book, ‘Modern Romantics’.
The 31-year-old, best known for his role in hit TV series ‘Parks and Recreation’, created a forum on a social networking site Reddit where he posted questions about love, reported Contactmusic.
“Please do not mistake anything you read here as professional advice. Any and all stories posted here may be used in my book on modern romance,” he said.
An Indian-origin man in Singapore has been jailed for 12 weeks for brutally assaulting his wife suspecting her to be having an affair, a media report said today.
Inderjit Singh Bhagh Singh, 36, had hit his wife twice with a motorcycle exhaust pipe which broke her collarbone and a finger.
On July 27, 2012, Singh returned home and beat his wife under the influence of alcohol. He suspected his wife of having an affair with another man, The Straits Times reported today. Singh’s 26-year-old wife denied the allegations.
An Indian-origin man in Australia Thursday pleaded guilty to assaulting young women on trains pretending to be palm reader.
Ajay Chopra, 41, of Bendigo in Victoria, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent behaviour and two charges of attempted assault in the Victorian county court Thursday, the Melbourne Age reported.
Chopra allegedly terrorised women aged between 20 and 30, between February and August 2011 as they travelled on V/Line trains from Bendigo to Melbourne.
The court heard that he approached the women offering to read their palms.
Two Indian-American students today made it to the top 10 of the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search awards, bagging a prize of USD 20,000 each.
Anand Srinivasan of Georgia bagged the eighth position while Shaun Datta from Maryland took the last 10th spot in the
awards.
Eric S Chen, 17, of San Diego won the top award of USD 100,000 from the Intel Foundation for his research of
potential new drugs to treat influenza.
His interdisciplinary approach combined computer modelling with structural studies and biological validation,
An Indian student who was pulled unconscious from a lake in New Zealand died Wednesday, a media report said.
Sidhant Sharma, 21, was aboard a privately-owned boat with three others on Lake Taupo in New Zealand’s North Island Tuesday afternoon when he decided to take a swim.
Around 2.30 p.m., he failed to resurface and was pulled out unconscious, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Even as the boat made a mayday call, an overseas tourist swam across to the boat and performed CPR on Sharma.
The boat then motored to shore and he was taken to a nearby hospital.
A 27-year-old Indian-origin woman, convicted of arson leading to her husband’s death two years ago, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in the US state of Texas.
After long deliberations, a Travis County jury handed down the sentence to Shriya Patel yesterday afternoon, which was accepted by District Judge David Crain.
Shirya (27) who faced the death sentence for allegedly killing her husband, Bimal, by pouring gasoline over him and setting him on fire, was, on March 10, found not guilty of capital murder by the jury.
Germany today conferred its Cross of the Order of Merit on three Indians in recognition of their contribution to Indo-German relations.
German ambassador to India, Michael Steiner, conferred the prestigious ‘Bundesverdienstkreuz’ on Anand Singh Bawa, Kalyan Sachdev and Prof. Syed Hasnain.
“This evening it is a sort of a diplomatic triple. Never before have three eminent Indians received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in a row,” Steiner said.
A Sri Lankan maid in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been jailed for six months for stealing jewellery worth 55,000 dirhams (about $14,974) from her Indian sponsor’s flat.
The maid was arrested with luggage while fleeing the country after allegedly stealing the jewellery from her sponsor’s flat in Dubai, the Gulf News reported Monday.
However, the defendant denied the charge before the Dubai Court of First Instance.
The ruling is subject to appeal within 15 days.IANS
An Indian-American woman has been found guilty of arson, leading to the death of her husband two years ago, by a court in the US state of Texas.
Travis county jurors Monday begun deliberations on a punishment for Shriya Biman Patel, 27, convicted of dousing her husband in gasoline and setting him on fire in 2012, the Austin American-Statesman reported Monday.
Shriya Patel lured her husband Bimal Patel, 29, into the bathtub for a massage and doused him with gasoline and then set him on fire.
Gujarat Home Department will seek the intervention of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to help bring back 58 labourers from the state who have been reportedly held hostage in Iraq by their employer.
After the reports surfaced about alleged torture and ill-treatment of the stranded labourers in Iraq, Minister of State for Home Rajnikant Patel today assured the people of prompt and appropriate action to bring them back.
Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society has and applauded CBSE for allowing Class XII (plus two) students currently appearing for the board exams to not only get a copy of their evaluated answer sheets, but also seek re-evaluation instead of just a recount of the marks. The Central Board of Secondary Education now will allow Class XII students currently appearing for the board exams to not only get a copy of their evaluated answer According to CBSE sources, the exam committee has approved the move.
Two Indian nationals, including a former managing director and a manager of a multinational engineering company in Oman, were among seven persons convicted and sentenced to jail in five bribery cases.
Muscat Primary Court Sunday sentenced former managing director P. Mohammad Ali and a manager, whose name is not mentioned in the report, of Galfar Engineering to 15 years in jail in all the five cases of bribing an oil company’s officials, the Times of Oman reported Monday.
Five Omani nationals from a state-run oil sector firm have also been jailed.
A 13-year-old Indian-origin kid has won the Jackson County Spelling Bee in Missouri, which had 90 rounds spanning two weeks.
Seventh-grader Kush Sharma, who has beaten fifth-grader Sophia Hoffman, from the Kansas City area, breezed through the word list provided by the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the New York Daily News reported.
The competition was halted after there was no winner in 60 rounds and had extra rounds added.
An Indian in Dubai has been jailed for six months followed by deportation from the United Arab Emirates for molesting a five-year-old girl.
The Dubai Court of First Instance passed the sentence after the 23-year-old delivery man earlier admitted that he had grabbed the girl by her hand, and hugged, kissed and touched her inappropriately, the Khaleej Times reported Saturday.
The girl’s mother, a 28-year-old Afghan housewife who lives in International City, filed a complaint after the incident Jan 20.
An elderly Sikh man stabbed a drinker in Britain with his kirpan or ceremonial sword, a court has heard.
Bagicha Singh, 60, has been accused of stabbing Pritpal Singh, 30, several times with the kirpan on Sunnyside Road at Ilford, a town northeast of greater London, the Ilford Recorder reported.
Pritpal Singh had been drinking in South Park and he became quite aggressive after hitting his leg on a metal pole, jurors at Snaresbrook Crown Court said Wednesday. They also added that his friends tried controlling him but he said that he would hit the next person he saw.
The US media looks at India’s upcoming general elections as an “insanely huge and complex exercise” to “one of the most significant elections in decades” that will put “more power in the hands and thumbs of the Indian voter than ever before”.
Influential Time magazine described the elections as “the insanely huge and complex exercise”, noting that 814 million voters in the “world’s largest democracy will go to the polls” at 900,000 polling stations across the country.
A court has freed an Indian-origin man, who mowed down a woman with his car in a British town last year, saying he was suffering from “stress” when the incident happened.
Warrington Crown Court Judge Nicholas Woodward Thursday said Balbinder Dhillon, 39, was suffering from “stress” when he ran over Donna Davies, 42, in Warrington in northwest England.
Davies, a mother-of-four, was walking with her child April 25, 2013, when the car being driven by Dhillon veered towards them.
Davies threw her child out of the way just in time but she died from the impact of the crash.
Vice President Hamid Ansari on Thursday presented “3rd S.K. Singh Award for Excellence in Indian Foreign Service” to Sibi George, the 1993 batch officer of Indian Foreign Service (IFS).
Addressing on the occasion, he said that Late S.K. Singh was a distinguished diplomat and was his senior in IFS, and also extended his felicitations and best wishes to Manju Singh and the S.K. Singh Memorial Trust for keeping alive the rich legacy of Singh through the institution of this Award.
An Indian-American physician has been indicted for health care fraud in Syracuse, New York, and faces up to 30 years in prison with a million dollar fine if convicted.
Mahesh Kuthuru, 43, who owned and operated Upstate Pain Management, a medical practice in Utica and Fulton-area, was indicted with his employee Bonnie Meislin, 42, by a federal grand jury last week, according to The North Country Gazette.
An Indian professional in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) faces excessive scrutiny every time he goes out of the country because his name matches with a wanted criminal.
Mohammad Anwer Ali, 37, a business analyst at a travel company in Dubai, is facing problems while leaving for other countries because someone else with the same name has been blacklisted by the UAE authorities, the Gulf News reported Thursday.