Sydney, May 7 (IANS) Prosecutors have filed in an Australian court for a fresh trial of a former Indian origin surgeon in a hospital in that country for causing grievous bodily harm to a patient. Prosecutors in the Australian state of Queensland filed for the trial of Jayant Patel before [...]

Toronto, May 7 (IANS) The driver responsible for the horrific road accident April 28 in Surrey, British Columbia, that claimed five Indo-Canadian lives, has died. David Gore, 46, died in a hospital where he was undergoing treatment for the injuries he sustained during the accident, Canadian media reported. Reena Arjot, [...]

New York, May 7 (IANS) An Indian-American woman is running for a city council in the US state of Washington, according to a media report. Clinical pharmacist Vandana Slatter is running for the Bellevue City Council and challenging the incumbent, Don Davidson, the Northwest Asian Weekly reported Monday. Vandana works [...]

Washington, May 7 (IANS) As lawmakers mull immigration reform to deal with the problem of 11 million illegal immigrants, including some 260,000 Indians, a conservative think tank claimed the bipartisan plan would cost a whopping $6.3 trillion. But critics, both conservative and liberals, alike cast doubts on the Heritage Foundation [...]

Jaipur: Khadims (priests) at the dargah (shrine) of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer have decided not to assist Pakistani pilgrims in offering prayers at the shrine. Several groups of khadims have decided to join the increasing protests against the killing of Sarabjit. About 640 pilgrims from Pakistan will be visiting Rajasthan’s [...]

Port of Spain, May 6 (IANS) Guyana marked the 175th anniversary of Indian Arrival Day Sunday by unveiling a monument at the very location where the first batch of indentured Indian labourers alighted from a ship in 1838. The monument at Plantation Highbury up in the East Bank corridor of [...]

Durban, May 6 (IANS) A controversial wedding in an Indian-origin family in South Africa has allegedly created a rift between President Jacob Zuma and African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe, a media report said. The wedding in the influential Gupta family got hit by controversy when a chartered aircraft [...]

New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) When every country is out to invite a Chinese table tennis player with open arms, surprisingly a player of Indian origin in the New Zealand women’s team here for the Commonwealth Championships has come in for praise from her highly-rated Chinese coach. Armindeep Singh, a [...]

The body of Sajith Somarajan Pillai was Sunday found on the Al Jazair beach of the country, the Gulf Daily News reported Monday. According to police, though the death is not being treated as suspicious, investigations are still on. Achu Sreenivasan, a friend of Pillai, said he was with the [...]

Singapore, May 6 (IANS) The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) failed to increase its tally of parliamentary seats in general elections in the southeast Asian country held Sunday. The ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition won 133, down from 138 it had won in the last elections in 2008. The opposition Pakatan [...]