New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought a report from the Indian consulate in Dubai regarding three Indians who reportedly suffocated to death in diesel tanks in the Gulf…
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought a report from Indian embassy in UAE regarding three Indians who reportedly suffocated to death in diesel tanks in the Gulf nation….
Hyderabad, Feb 12 (IANS) Unidentified gunmen shot dead a youth from Telangana in California in the US. V. Vamshi Reddy, 27, was killed near his apartment, according to information reaching his family in Warangal Urban…
By Anjali Ojha New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) A parliamentary panel has pulled up the government for delaying a new emigration policy that would keep with the changing times, and expressed displeasure over a bill…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday assured help to the family of an Indian national who was shot dead during an armed robbery in Jamaica earlier this week. “Talreja…
Mumbai, Feb 10 (IANS) Indian-origin citizen-astronaut Shawna Pandya has denied reports she had been shortlisted by NASA for its 2018 space mission under the Citizen Science Astronaut programme. Pandya said her work was separate from…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Indo-British raptress Taran Kaur Dhillon, popularly known as Hard Kaur, is tied up with a mixtape that will feature as many as 28 rappers. After its release…
Thiruvananthapuram/Manama, Feb 9 (IANS) Bahrain is willing to increase its ties with Kerala in various sectors, Bahrain’s Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa informed visiting Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. A statement issued…
By Paras Ramoutar Poet-of-Spain, Feb 9 (IANS) Eminent Indian jurist B.N. Srikrishna has urged Trinidad and Tobago to fully adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final court of appeal rather than the…
New York, Feb 8 (IANS) An Indian-origin man who allegedly sent over 1 million spam emails and damaged several computer networks has been charged with fraud, according to the Chicago federal prosecutor. Using “snowshoe spamming”…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Britain-based Indian-origin artist and human rights activist Anish Kapoor has been honoured with the 2017 Genesis Prize given by the Genesis Prize Foundation. The prize was awarded by the Genesis…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Feb 7 (IANS) The heart-warming, real-life story of Indian-Australian businessman Saroo Brierley is being celebrated globally through the film “Lion”, that has been winning awards and has earned several Oscar and…
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) A section of Indian-origin researchers based in the US, who have joined 51 Nobel laureates and over 27,000 academics from across the globe in denouncing President Donald Trump’s travel ban, have…
Islamabad, Feb 4 (IANS) A Pakistani Minister has said that including the country in a list of those whose citizens have been temporarily barred from visiting the US would be “counterproductive”, a media report said…
By Arul Louis New York, Feb 4 (IANS) Convicted Democratic Party fundraiser Sant Chatwal got an invitation to a State Department lunch for then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2009 through Hillary Clinton’s aide…
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) Indian-American Republican leader from Virginia Puneet Ahluwalia is contesting for the state’s House of Delegates for the 34th district against the incumbent Kathleen Murphy. Ahluwalia, 10th District Representative on the Virginia…
New York, Feb 3 (IANS) Couples in which both partners are obese may take over 50 per cent longer to achieve pregnancy, compared to their non-obese counterparts, say researchers, including one of Indian-origin. “A lot…
Singapore, Feb 3 (IANS) Five Indians here were charged with fraudulent Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund claims amounting to 167,253 Singapore dollars ($118,392) for jewellery they didn’t buy, the media reported. Karunanithi Saravanan (36),…
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) He is the first Indian to turn out in the elite US National Basketball Association (NBA) league and has represented the country on foreign shores. But there…
New York, Feb 3 (IANS) Despite US President Donald Trump being a prolific Twitter user, the employees of the micro-blogging site donated $1.59 million to an organisation to fight Trump, a media report said. According…