Police in Australia Tuesday nabbed and charged two suspects over a vicious assault on two Indian students, one of whom is now lying in coma.
The victim, Manriajwinder Singh, 20, of Reservoir, a suburb in Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria, was nearly beaten to death by a gang in a city park Sunday.
Police Tuesday arrested three teenagers for the attack, The Age reported.
Advocate Shaik Anwar Ahmed and his wife Ayesha Begum celebrated wedding of their elder daughter Afifa Anwar with Omar Rathore in Bolingbrook, on Friday, Dec 28, 2013. The Nikah ceremony was performed by Shaik Yaqoob of Rolling Meadows Islamic Center. Many relatives who arrived from around the world and joined by relatives living in Chicago area with many friends. The simplicity and elegance of wedding ceremony was appreciated by all who were present.
Indian tourists are flocking to Australia to see its beauty, taking the total number of overseas travellers from the region to over 134,000 from January to October this year, according to a report.
A total of 13,400 rpt 13,400 visitors from India visited Australia during October this year, an increase of 9.5 per cent as compared to the same period last year.
Visitor arrivals from India were predicted to rise by 7.5 per cent and 7.6 per cent to 1,63,800 in 2012-13 and 176,300 in 2013-14 respectively, according to Tourism Australia’s Tourism Forecast Committee report.
The Indian consulate in Melbourne is in touch with police and kin of an Indian student who was attacked and is in coma in a hospital. One suspect has been arrested.
The Indian ministry of external affairs said Tuesday in New Delhi that its consulate is in touch with the hospital, the police and the brother of the attacked student, Manriajwinder Singh, 20.
Singh was with two friends when he was assaulted by a group of eight men and one woman over the weekend at Princess Bridge in Birrarung Marr park in Melbourne.
The family members of fifteen Punjabi youths, who have been languishing in a jail in Abu Dhabi since November 30, met Rajya Sabha member Avinash Rai Khanna today and sought his intervention in this matter.
The youths, who had gone to Abu Dhabi in search of livelihood, have been imprisoned at Al Wathba jail there following a clash between two groups.
Majority of their parents came to know of their incarceration from their friends.
A deputation of parents of eight youths met the RS MP and urged him to use his office to get them released at the earliest.
A 20-year-old Indian student in Australia suffered serious injuries after he was brutally attacked with stick and robbed by thugs here.
Manrajwinder Singh from Reservoir landed in the hospital with serious injuries after a gang attacked him yesterday.
According to local police statement today, the?man was sitting near the footpath with two other friends, east of Princess Bridge, when they were approached by eight men, perceived to be of African appearance.
The offenders assaulted Singh by kicking him on the head and hitting him with a stick.
Young Talents Riyadh paid rich tribute to Singer Late Mohammed Rafi celebrating his 89 birthday at Riyadh this weekend. Mohammed Rafi was the greatest Indian singer of Bollywood, his singing career spanned about 35 years in his lifetime. He received many awards, like Padmashri by Govt. of India, two National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards and numerous others.
Seven Indian workers have been deported from Saudi Arabia for visa violation, reports said today.
Some of the workers violated visa regulations intentionally, while the rest were cheated by their sponsors.
They were deported after being released from the Abha detention centre in Asir province on Thursday, Arab News reported.
Four of them flew home Friday morning.
“Of a total of 22 Indian inmates in the Abha detention center, only seven are eligible to return home,” said Indian social worker Ashraf Kutichal.
Seven Indian workers, who were detained for staying in Saudi Arabia in violation of visa laws, were released from the Abha detention centre in Asir province.
The workers, some of whom were in violation of visa regulations and the rest cheated by their sponsors, were released Thursday, Arab News reported Sunday.
Four of them flew home Friday morning.
“Of a total of 22 Indian inmates in the detention centre, only seven were eligible to return home,” Indian social worker Ashraf Kutichal said.
A team led by an Indian-origin plastic surgeon from Dubai will perform free operations on children with cleft lips and acid burn victims in several villages in India next month.
About 45 operations will be done in two days in January by the group led by Sanjay Parashar, a reputed plastic surgeon in Dubai.
They will perform the surgeries in villages near Nagpur, Maharashtra, The National daily reported.
The team comprises two plastic surgeons from Nagpur, a doctor from Australia and another specialist from Dubai.
Indian-Americans never had it so good in the US, as a record number of members from the over three million-strong community were appointed to key positions in the White House in 2013.
Reflecting his special affection, President Barack Obama appointed a record number of Indian-Americans in the first year of his second innings at the White House, which experts say recognises the inherent talent of this ethnic community.
Indian workers who face threats from their employers in Bahrain should immediately approach the authorities, India’s ambassador to Bahrain Mohan Kumar has said.
“If there is any explicit threat a person faces, they should visit the nearest police station and inform the embassy,” the Gulf Daily News quoted the ambassador as saying.
“They should not accept any bodily threats,” he said Friday during the monthly Open House.
An Indian worker had complained about being threatened by his employer after asking for his passport.
The indictment of the girlfriend of Manhattan’s Indian American antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor has revealed the fake ownership histories of stolen Indian artefacts palmed off to museums across the world.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has criminally charged Kapoor’s girlfriend Selina Mohamed with participating in a decades-long conspiracy to launder stolen antiquities by creating false ownership histories.
Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC – www.iamc.com), an advocacy organization dedicated to preserving India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, has called into question a dubious verdict of the lower court in the Narendra Modi Gujarat pogroms case. A Magistrate’s court in Gujarat handed down the verdict in the case filed by Mrs. Zakia Jafri and Citizens for Justice and Peace earlier today. The court dismissed as inadequate the evidence available to charge-sheet Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on various criminal charges.
I’ve been involved since May of 2012 with AAP. In my speech I asked more people to get involved for the upcoming election in 2014.
I said Congress and BJP did not make any changes in the last 50 years and we now have a chance and we hope to make change in our lives- yes we can. I want to especially thank Dr. Manish Kumar who discontinued his practice as a physician and he helped Arvind Kejriwal in the last election and he will be running for Member of Parliament in 2014.
Indians are quietly making good money in Africa. Unlike the Indians in Britain and the US, they go quietly about it. As individuals or corporations, Indians rake in the moolah, contribute to the local economies and national progress. All these achievements hardly ever make news in India.
The big investors from India are doing very well indeed, thank you. Competing against global MNCs, the Indian investors have established themselves in traditional industries, agriculture and new ones like IT.
Hyderabad Muslim Welfare Association in in association with Welfare India – Kuwait recently conducted an interactive session and a public program with visiting dignitary Mr. Malik Moatasam Khan in Salmiya Indian Model
School Salmiya. A large crowd including ladies and gents ware present from both the Hyderabadi community as well as other Indian communities.
The funeral of a 32-year-old Indian-origin British doctor who died under mysterious circumstances in a Syrian prison will take place here.
Shah Abbas Khan was days from being freed when the Syrian government announced on December 17 that he had committed suicide.
His family, however, believes he was murdered.
The orthopaedic surgeon from south London was arrested within 48 hours of arriving in Syria in November last year to work in a field hospital in a rebel-controlled area.
Indian schools in Oman will go online with their admission process for the academic year 2014-2015, a media report Thursday said.
The website related to admissions, www.indianschoolsoman.com, will go online with updated information and online registration forms from Jan 1, Times Of Oman reported.
The Board of Directors (BoD) of Indian schools in Oman – the apex body of the 19 Indian schools in the country with more than 37,000 students – is finalising the admission process for the academic year.
A 23-year-old Indian drowned while swimming in the Arabian sea in Fujairah, UAE, police said.
The man, identified only by his initials A.M.M., was swimming along with two other friends near a hotel Wednesday when the incident happened, Khaleej Times reported Thursday.
Rescue personnel and policemen rushed to the sea and fished out the man’s body.
Police are investigating the incident while the body has been kept in the hospital morgue for post-mortem.
Fujairah Police has urged all sea-goers to be extra cautious.
Dear Students, Indian Youth Welfare Association (IYWA) Jeddah is a non-political and non-profit organization working for the welfare of IndianYouth residing in and around Jeddah. IYWA is conducting their Sixth “Higher Education Fair & Career Guidance Program” on Friday,January 10, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM for Indian students ofgrade IX to XII and their parents from various schools around Jeddah atConsulate General of India premises in Tahliya street, Jeddah in our continuous stride for the welfare of the Indian community living in theKingdom.
Amid the row over Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s arrest in the US, a Bahrainian envoy has been booked here for allegedly molesting the woman manager of his housing society but not arrested due to the diplomatic immunity he enjoys, police said on Wednesday.
With the arrival of the new Indian ambassador in Washington, efforts to defuse the India-US diplomatic row over the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat are gaining momentum.
While S Jaishankar, who served as the Indian ambassador in China for the last four years, may be able to present his credentials to President Barack Obama, away on a family holiday in Hawaii, only in the New Year, he is expected to plunge into the crisis solving mode straight away.
Civil society group Workfair Singapore, which works for the welfare of local and migrant workers, has asked the law ministry to clarify why Indians who had charges dropped against them for alleged rioting were eventually deported.
As many as 57 Indian nationals, allegedly involved in the Dec 8 riot in the Little India area, have been sent home, Today Online reported Wednesday.
Police said even though charges against four Indians were dropped, their involvement in the mayhem was deemed serious enough for repatriation.
The Sharjah police has launched an investigation into the death of a 22-year-old Indian student in Al Bardi, who was found hanging from a rope in her bedroom. The Eastern Region Police received a call from a police officer on Sunday claiming that a young woman”s body of Indian nationality had been brought to the hospital by her father, who claimed that he was shocked to see his only child hanging in her bedroom, Gulf News reports. The student”s father has been taken into police custody, the report added.