London: The UK government has agreed to support and fund a national memorial to honour the sacrifices and contribution of Sikh soldiers who fought for Britain and its allies during the two World Wars. More than 83,000 turbaned Sikh soldiers gave their lives and more than 100,000 were injured duringContinue Reading
Washington: Two Indian-American innovation pioneers — Arogyaswami Paulraj for his MIMO wireless technology and Sumita Mitra for her nanocomposite dental materials — have been inducted into the prestigious National Inventors Hall of Fame this year. Arogyaswami Paulraj and Sumita Mitra along with 13 other innovation pioneers would be formally felicitatedContinue Reading
“Sige ka, kukunin ka ng Bumbay!” Many Filipino children have heard this threat from their parents or guardians at one point in their lives, especially during times when they don’t want to sleep in the afternoon or stop playing on the streets. Clueless children, who most likely do not reallyContinue Reading
Mehul Garg decided to take the test to follow in the footsteps of his older brotherContinue Reading
The amnesty has been granted from January 29 to February 22Continue Reading
Greenbush church closes after 204 yearsContinue Reading
New Delhi: His biological mother Anasuiya could never have imagined that Niklaus-Samuel Gugger, whom she abandoned in a hospital 48 years ago just after his birth, would be the first Indian to be elected to the Swiss parliament. Born in CSI Lombard Memorial Hospital, run by Basel Mission, in Karnataka’sContinue Reading
Chandler: Many of the young students at St. Mary-Basha School in Chandler see the school’s newest teachers as living saints. Who could blame them? With deep brown habits, dark eyes and an eternal smile, the three Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa from Kerala, India, resemble images little learners have seen on holyContinue Reading
London: An Indian-origin teenager has been sentenced to eight years in jail by a UK court for trying to buy explosives online to kill his conservative Sikh father who did not approve of his white girlfriend. Gurtej Singh Randhawa was arrested in May last year after undercover officers from theContinue Reading
Chicago : An Indian-origin college student was shot dead during a robbery attempt at a gas station in the US on Thursday and his relative critically injured, media reports said. Nineteen-year-old Arshad Vhora was filling in for his father — who was in India to attend a wedding — atContinue Reading