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  • Indian priest faces deportation for molestation in US

    Indian priest faces deportation for molestation in US

    An Indian-American priest who admitted to fondling a girl while attending dinner at her grandmother’s home in Minnesota has been sentenced to 25 years of supervised probation, according to media reports.

  • Man who beat Indian-American computer scientist fatally gets 12 years in jail

    Man who beat Indian-American computer scientist fatally gets 12 years in jail

    A New Jersey court has sentenced last of five men charged with the 2010 fatal beating of an Indian-American computer scientist Divyendu Sinha to more than 12 years in prison.

  • Obama names Indian-American as alternate IMF director

    Obama names Indian-American as alternate IMF director

    US president is nominating Sunil Sabharwal, an independent Indian American investor in the payments sector, to a key job as US alternate executive director at International Monetary Fund.

  • BJP’s Indian-American supporters bet on ‘chai pe charcha’ in the US

    BJP’s Indian-American supporters bet on ‘chai pe charcha’ in the US

    The Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) is organising hundreds of “chai pe charcha” events in the US and calling up people in India to influence potential voters.

  • Surrey senior afraid to leave his home after vicious daylight attack in Newton

    Surrey senior afraid to leave his home after vicious daylight attack in Newton

    Bal Gills 72yearold father used to walk through his Newton community up to three times a day But since a brazen daytime attack two weeks ago that left his father Gurcharan Singh Gill with six stitches in his head and a fractured cheekbone and jaw hes too afraid to leave…

  • US rapper makes racist comments about Sikh man draws flak

    US rapper makes racist comments about Sikh man draws flak

    An American rapper has made racist comments about a Sikh man in a picture he posted on a website but withdrew it later after drawing flak for his remarks online

  • Indian-American disqualified from Congressional poll

    Indian-American disqualified from Congressional poll

    An Indian-American Republican candidate has been disqualified from contesting Congressional election by a California court, even as it cleared another candidate from the community to contest the polls.

  • AAP’s Punjab strategy made in US, Canada

    The Punjab chapter of AAP is getting technical and strategic inputs from its offshore supporters.

  • Indian-origin doctor pleads guilty to taking bribes in US

    Indian-origin doctor pleads guilty to taking bribes in US

    An Indian-origin pediatrician in the US has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by a diagnostic firm.

  • Op Bluestar a stain on post1947 India Cameron

    Op Bluestar a stain on post1947 India Cameron

    British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday called Operation Bluestar and the events that followed it in India in 1984 a stain on the postindependence history of India and said that Britain should celebrate the contribution Sikhs made to the country

  • Indian-American in immigration scam settles with US body

    Indian-American in immigration scam settles with US body

    An Indian-American businessman and two Chicago based organisations will pay $15 million to settle charges of raising $158 million dollars from close to 300 investors as part of an immigration scam.

  • India-born Rajat Gupta should pay $13.9m penalty, be banned for life, US regulator says

    Gupta’s lawyers have argued that instead of protecting the investing public, the injunctions imposed on him by the district court “serve only to punish and stigmatize Gupta”.

  • Vancouver restaurant magnet Vikram Vij to enter Dragons Den

    Vancouver restaurant magnet Vikram Vij to enter Dragons Den

    Vancouvers restaurant magnet Vikram Vij and investment mogul Michael Wekerle are entering the Dragons Den The two business titans replacing outgoing judges Kevin OLeary one of the original dragons and Internet whiz Bruce Croxon on the CBCTV reality series

  • Senate balks at Obama pick for surgeon general

    Senate balks at Obama pick for surgeon general

    Facing a possible defeat in the Senate, the White House is considering delaying a vote on President Obama’s choice for surgeon general or withdrawing the nomination altogether, an acknowledgment of its fraying relationship with Senate Democrats.

  • Elderly Sikh cleared of kirpan attack in UK

    Elderly Sikh cleared of kirpan attack in UK

    A 60yearold British Sikh man has been cleared of the charges of stabbing a drinker with his kirpan on the streets of northeast London Bagicha Singh was accused of attacking compatriot Pritpal Singh 30 repeatedly with his ceremonial dagger during an altercation near Ilford

  • PIO woman who set hubby on fire gets 20 years’ jail for arson

    PIO woman who set hubby on fire gets 20 years’ jail for arson

    According to the prosecution, Shriya, who had been in the US for just a week at that point, having joined her Indian-American husband a year after an arranged marriage in India, cold-bloodedly planned his murder.

  • US lawmakers urge Pentagon to allow Sikhs leeway in military attire

    US lawmakers urge Pentagon to allow Sikhs leeway in military attire

    Lawmakers urged the Pentagon on Monday to lift a virtual ban on Sikhs serving in the US armed forces by easing the military-uniform policy to enable Sikhs to wear beards, long hair and turbans in accordance with the customs of their religion.

  • British Sikh teacher in school job row

    British Sikh teacher in school job row

    A British Sikh head of a school has alleged that he was pushed out of his post by the schools Muslim governors for opposing their move to ban sex education classes and allow only halal food

  • Google faces up to 5bn CCI fine says cooperating in probe

    Google faces up to 5bn CCI fine says cooperating in probe

    Google which is facing antitrust investigation in India by fair trade watchdog CCI can face a penalty of up to about 5 billion if it is found to have violated competition norms of the country

  • Preet Bharara, Indian-origin actress to speak at Harvard Law School

    Preet Bharara, Indian-origin actress to speak at Harvard Law School

    Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor Bharara graduated from Harvard College in 1990 and earned a degree from Columbia Law School in 1993.