A 43-year-old Indian-origin store owner in the US has been shot dead outside his home, just days after an Indian engineer was killed in Kansas in a hate crime shooting that had sent shockwaves across the country. Harnish Patel (43), the owner of a convenience store in Lancaster County, South Carolina, was found dead of gunshot wounds in the front […]
» Read moreIn a major climb down, the BJP has withdrawn from the race for post of Mayor of BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced on Saturday. Fadnavis said his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ready to offer support to the Shiv Sena but would not take any post, including of Deputy Mayor, Leader of Opposition, or chairmanship of any […]
» Read moreA 24-year-old woman has alleged that she was sexually harassed by a Hinduja Hospital staffer, asking for sexual favours in exchange for a rebate on her brother’s treatment. The Mahim police have charged the official – Rajesh Rao (50), secretary to the hospital board – under Section 354A (sexual harassment) of the Indian Penal Code. They are yet to arrest […]
» Read moreA 43-year-old Indian-origin store owner in the US has been shot dead outside his home, just days after an Indian engineer was killed in Kansas+ in a hate crime shooting that had sent shockwaves across the country. Harnish Patel, 43, the owner of a convenience store in Lancaster County, South Carolina, was found dead of gunshot wounds in the front […]
» Read moreThe Election Commission on Friday rejected the response of the AIADMK on the elevation of V.K. Sasikala as general secretary, saying T.T.V. Dinakaran, who signed the letter, is not in its list of party office-bearers. It has now asked Sasikala to either sign the response herself or by an authorised signatory who is in the Commission’s list of AIADMK office-bearers […]
» Read moreThe war against mosquitoes is being proposed using optical sensors to capture their density, species and gender before moving in to exterminate them. Three cities in Andhra Pradesh — Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam and Tirupati — want to use modern technology to detect mosquito breeding before malaria and other vector-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and zika become an epidemic. The Andhra […]
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