Washington, May 11 (IANS) Ami Bera, the lone Indian-American lawmaker, has joined the newly formed American Sikh Congressional Caucus, saying he was solely motivated by concerns about incidents of hate crimes against the community. Indian officials had pressed Bera and some other US lawmakers not to join the Sikh caucus [...]

New Delhi: Within hours of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today evening, the UPA government asked two tainted cabinet members – Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar – to go, sending out a signal that no wrongdoing will be tolerated. The Congress, [...]

Singapore, May 10 (IANS) A court in Singapore Friday sentenced a 38-year-old Indian-origin businessman to one month in jail for punching a man in a road rage case. Edwin Jaykumar Samuel was found guilty of punching Peh Boon Hoe, 58, on the evening of July 31, 2011, the Straits Times [...]

Toronto: An Indo-Canadian man serving a life sentence in a jail in Canada for murdering three people, including his sister, says he will educate people about honour killings if he is released from prison. A parole board in Canada has denied Daljit Singh Dulay’s plea for unescorted passes from jail [...]

New York, May 10 (IANS) An Indian American businessman has been awarded by a US business chamber as its 2013 Ambassador of the Year. Kiran Patel was named as the 2013 Ambassador of the Year by the Henderson Chamber of Commerce in the city of Henderson in the US state [...]

Toronto, May 10 (IANS) A bill proposed by an Indo-Canadian member of Canada’s parliament to make recruitment of youths in criminal gangs a crime has secured the support of the country’s justice minister and is set to become a law. Paramjit Gill, the Conservative Party MP from Brampton-Springdale in the [...]

New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) There are an estimated 25 million people of Indian origin settled across the globe. In perhaps the first such attempt to document the story of the non-resident Indian, two travel enthusiasts are now set to embark upon a path-breaking six-month adventure “to connect with Indians [...]

Washington: Still a persona non grata in the US, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is again set to talk to the Indian community in 18 cities in North America via satellite from state capital of Gandhinagar Sunday. He will be the keynote speaker at Gujarat Day celebrations across North America, according [...]

Chicago, May 10 (IANS) Over 2,000 doctors are expected to attend the five-day annual convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) – the largest ethnic medical organization in the US and a very politically influential group by virtue of their nationwide presence and wide social respect [...]

Washington, May 10 (IANS) As the US Congress opened a debate on comprehensive immigration reforms, a poll found wide variation in the Americans’ views on how to deal with 11 million undocumented immigrants, including some 260,000 Indians. A new poll by the Pew Research Centre found three in four Americans [...]