Terming the street crime against Indians as "cowardly" and "despicable", a Victorian court today handed out long imprisonment sentences to attackers of an Indian origin doctor.
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Police were reported to have arrested the estranged India-born husband of a young British Punjabi woman who died on Monday after being found on the streets of a London suburb with a severed hand.
Groomed after a week of training from Indian designer-choreographer Kedar Gawde, chemical engineer Verushka Chetty was crowned as 'Miss Pride of India' while Jatil Nana, a final year Management student became 'Mr Pride of India' 2009.
The maximum number of foreign students in the US comes from India, according to a new report showing a record number of foreign students at US universities and colleges.
Four people suffered stab wounds after a mob of white and black youths set upon Muslim Asian students - including at least six of Indian origin - near the prestigious City University in north London, police and student groups said.
Professor Yash Pal of India has won the annual Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science along with a Vietnamese professor, a Tunisian expert in water management and the organisation responsible for Spain's national park system.
Four people of Indian origin are among those charged in America's largest ever insider trading case replete with all the elements of a classic television crime drama - wiretaps, clandestine cash handoffs and people with nicknames like "the Greek" and "the Octopussy".
Professor Yash Pal of India has won the annual Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science along with a Vietnamese professor, a Tunisian expert in water management and the organisation responsible for Spain's national park system.
Twenty-five years after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, the US-based Sikh organisations have moved away from demonstrations to a “justice awareness campaign”.
Arvind Sanger, an Indian American with a B Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has been appointed chairman of Pratham USA, which helps underprivileged children in India to learn reading and writing skills.
Mouth-watering Indian snacks like the spicy chaat, masala dosas and chicken rolls are said to be increasingly becoming popular in Bangladesh where the taste for western fast food has been holding sway till now.
India-born steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal remains the richest business tycoon in South Africa despite his fortune having halved in the past year due to the global recession.
Born in Tanzania and educated in Britain, Satvinder Juss is perhaps the first person of Indian origin to have become a professor of law in any British university. Mehboob Khan reports.
Describing education and health care sectors as essential pillars of a society, President Pratibha Patil has asked NRIs in Cyprus to participate in social welfare programmes launched by the Indian government.
In a bid to provide first-hand information on education facilities available Down Under, a Melbourne-based university has launched a special service to help Indian students find out more about "life at university".