Dubai, May 15 (IANS) The India government has exempted Indian workers in Saudi Arabia, seeking to leave that country, from paying fees for issue of emergency certificates (ECs) for one-time travel to India, according to the Indian embassy in Riyadh. However, the waiver is applicable only for those EC applications [...]

Dubai, May 15 (IANS) Two Indian workers were buried alive in the trench of a sewage system project where they were working in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Ram Kumar, 35, and Selvaraj, 28, were buried alive around 3.45 p.m in the Al Zaafaraniya area of Al Ain, the second [...]

Dubai, May 15 (IANS) A court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has upheld a jail term awarded to a 37-year-old Indian man for molesting a Sri Lankan domestic maid earlier this year. The Dubai court of appeal upheld the six-month jail term for the Indian worker followed by deportation [...]

Singapore, May 15 (IANS) A. Sakthivel, a 43-year-old chemical engineer, has been appointed the new secretary general of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) after Datuk S. Murugesan resigned from the post Tuesday. After being informed about his appointment by MIC president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel’s press secretary, Sakthivel said he [...]

Toronto, May 15 (IANS) Two Indo-Canadians from different parties were among the winners in the provincial elections in British Columbia, Canada, media reported Wednesday. While Amrik Virk of the Liberals, who swept back to power in the province, was declared elected from Surrey-Tynehead over the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) Avtar [...]

Toronto, May 15 (IANS) An Indo-Canadian real estate agent has been charged with stealing from listed homes he claimed he was showing to potential clients in the city of Brampton in the Canadian province of Ontario. Shalinder Kapoor, 38, was seen entering a home at Pringle Avenue, Milton, in Brampton [...]

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Twenty-nine diaspora students from seven countries called on Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi Tuesday, a statement said. The participants in the 24th Know India Programme (KIP) hail from South Africa, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Trinidad & Tobago, Mauritius and Canada. The participants had a [...]

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid goes to Saudi Arabia on May 24-27, the first visit by an Indian foreign minister in the last five years, during which the kingdom’s Nitaqat work policy, regional and international issues would be discussed. Then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee [...]

Chandigarh: Pakistan Prime Minister designate Nawaz Sharif nominating Ramesh Singh Dogra as a Sikh member of Pakistan Provincial Assembly has been hailed by Congress in Indian Punjab. Partap Singh Bajwa, President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) today thanked Nawaz Sharif President of Pakistan Muslim League-N for nominating Ramesh Singh [...]

Durban, May 14 (IANS) An Indian-origin doctor was shot dead outside his surgery at Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Dr Bhavish Sewram was shot three times in his neck, back and arm through his car window Monday night, the Independent Online reported Tuesday. Police have launched a manhunt [...]