Musician ShriLektric coming to India
NEW DELHI (IANS) Britain-based Indian musician Shri, also known as ShriLektric, is coming here on a four-city tour, starting May 24. The multi-intstrumentalist will perform in Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Pune. “I am extremely excited to tour India as playing in front of a live audience gives me a high. I am sure we will [...]
Sikhs in turbans can now serve Washington police
Washington(IANS) Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans, beards and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy announced by Washington DC police Chief Cathy Lanier Wednesday makes it the first major metropolitan police department in the US to permit Sikhs to maintain their articles of [...]
India-born professor donates sustainability award money
Washington, (IANS) India-born professor Kamal Bawa has donated the entire prize money of one million Norwegian Kronor (about Rs.10 million) from the world’s first major international sustainability award to the Indian organisation he founded in 1996. Bawa, distinguished professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is the 2012 winner of the Gunnerus Sustainability [...]
No appeal for UK family visitor visa refusal
LONDON Indian and other non-EU citizens will not be able to appeal against refusal to grant them a family visitor visa from 2014 under new rules announced by the British Home Office. The removal of the right to appeal against the visa refusal in courts is intended to save tens of millions of pounds and [...]
Rajat Gupta and Dharun Ravi will go for trial on May 21
NEW YORK May 21 promises to be a crucial day for the Indian-American community as one of corporate America’s most prominent India-born executives is scheduled to go on trial here while miles away a New Jersey court is to decide the fate of a Chennai native convicted of hate crime. The trial of IIT and [...]
Badal pats Punjabi farmers for record wheat production
CHANDIGARH congratulated the hard working farmers of the state for scripting a new chapter in the history of state agriculture by surpassing its earlier all-time high record of Wheat procurement of 112 lakh tones by crossing a new projected target of 120 lakh tonnes. Lauding the farmers of the state for maintaining the unsurpassed position [...]
A tiff in Toronto that was avoidable
Here goes the story of a cold encounter that took place between Toronto’s first citizen and an investigative journalist of a leading daily last week. The press reporter was present there to investigate a conflict of interest issue related to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his wife, who allegedly were trying to buy public park [...]
Immigration consultants: An endangered species?
I could barely suppress a smirk when I read about the plight of the immigration consultant, who ‘worked’ to get me into Canada. He was lamenting the fate of the 2000 registered immigration consultants in Canada, not to mention the thousands more unregistered consultants. An immigration lawyer I met recently held a similarly bleak outlook [...]