A 13-year-old Indian-origin boy has been honoured in the US for his efforts to improve access to education for underprivileged students in America and around the world through his charity organisation. Ishaan Patel, founder and CEO of Planting Pencils was recently honoured by the Milan Cultural Organisation during the Republic Day celebration in the Legislative Office building in downtown Hartford, […]
» Read moreThree Indian-American legal luminaries may be among the possible candidates whom US President Barack Obama could nominate as a Supreme Court judge following the sudden death of conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia. Within hours of the death of Mr Scalia at a ranch in Texas, the name of Chandigarh-born Sri Srinivasan popped up as the top contender to the post. […]
» Read moreGhaziabad Police on Monday arrested five men in the abduction of a Snapdeal employee Dipti Sharma who went missing on her way to Vaishali metro station last week. Sources said the conspiracy was hatched bysomeone known to the girl and was executed with the help of a well-known criminal Devendra. The police are also suspecting ‘unrequited love’ as a motive […]
» Read moreA 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped inside the Intensive Care Unit of a private hospital at Bahadurgarh in Gurgaon in the early hours of Saturday. According to the police, the woman had delivered a baby through C-section a few hours before the incident on Friday morning and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at Brahm Shakti Sanjivami Hospital. The […]
» Read moreThe US-based wife of American-born Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and his business partner have “refused” to answer questions posed by NIA, citing a privacy clause. The agency had approached Shazia, Headley’s wife, and Raymond Sanders, his busines partner, through the US department of justice, for helping it get answers to […]
» Read moreA Scottish tourist has been gored to death by an elephant that he and his 16-year-old stepdaughter were riding on the resort island of Samui, Thai authorities said on Tuesday. Police Lietenant Rotjanart Kiewjan said the animal threw Gareth Crowe and Eilidh Hughes to the ground during a trek on Monday. The elephant then gored Crowe with his tusk and […]
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