London: One of the UK’s largest Hindu temples has urged worshippers not to donate any new 5-pound notes after it emerged they contain traces of animal fat. Sree Sanatan Mandir in Leicester made the announcement a day after Bank of England confirmed that there is a trace of tallow inContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal and Jose Kavi Negombo: Asia’s first tribal cardinal has urged fellow bishops to pay more attention to indigenous people who he says are the future of the Church in the region. “Christianity is not something strange to tribal communities. They live the Gospel values in their dailyContinue Reading
Abu Dhabi: An Indian man who was forced to spend over eight months on the terrace of a building in UAE’s Ajman city is finally getting much needed offers of help, a newspaper said on Friday. The dramatic turn in his fortunes came after the Khaleej Times published a storyContinue Reading
Washington : A Muslim-American woman, whose parents are from India and Pakistan, has won a key local election in the US state of Maryland which was dominated by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric. Raheela Ahmed, 23, won the school board race in Prince George’s county of Maryland by defeating a long-timeContinue Reading
London: Patel has emerged as the most common Indian surname in the UK, according to a new Oxford dictionary released Thursday. The ‘Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland’ has put together the origins of nearly 50,000 surnames in one of the UK’s largest studies of its kind.Continue Reading
London: An Indian-origin Sikh, who became UK’s first-ever ethnic minority judge and the first to sit on the English Bench wearing a turban instead of a horse-hair wig, has died. He was 86. Paying tribute to him, his wife, Swaran Kaur, said, “He was a wonderful person who achieved soContinue Reading
California: A 17-year-old Indian-origin Sikh boy has been shot dead when he was returning home from work, prompting the police to launch an investigation. The incident took place last week at his home in his garage on Kandinsky Way in California. The family of Gurnoor Singh Nahal, who was aContinue Reading
By Teresa Mathew Six years ago, when Marianne Alapat was a high school student in Yonkers, N.Y., she stood in her church’s Bronx community hall and tried to convince the assembled Indian immigrants that they should consider holding services in English. Until that point, services at the St. Thomas Syro-MalabarContinue Reading
Three Democratic Party candidates of Indian origin were elected to the United States Congress on Wednesday. Kamala Harris won the California seat in the US Senate, making her the first Indian-American to win a seat to the Upper House, Los Angeles Times reported. Pramila Jayapal won the Washington seat inContinue Reading
Chicago: Pramila Jayapal on Wednesday became the First Indian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representative, winning the Washington State Senate seat. 51-year-old Ms. Jayapal got 57 per cent of the votes from Washington State, leaving behind her rival Brady Walkinshaw who secured 43 per cent votes.Continue Reading