WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin convenience store owner in the US has become a celebrity overnight after he sold one of the three Powerball winning lotteries with a record jackpot of $1.6 billion. Lottery officials confirmed one jackpot-winning […]
An Indian-origin family owned steel firm, Liberty House, is said to be a new potential buyer of two of Tata Steel’s Scottish plants, on the verge of closure due to the crisis in the industry. […]
Jwala Rambarran, Indian-origin Central Bank Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, has been removed for being “discourteous” to the government by making public details about foreign exchange and recession. The 47-year-old embattled governor, the second person […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin mother has been arrested in the US on charges of causing serious injuries to her five-week-old girl child that left her with broken ribs and leg. Rinkuben Patel, 25, who was arrested on […]
WASHINGTON: Sanjay Pradhan, an Indian-origin World Bank official, has been selected to lead a multination initiative focused on improving government transparency, accountability and responsiveness to citizens. Mr Pradhan will lead the Open Government Partnership Support Unit […]
WASHINGTON: The US town of Spotswood in New Jersey will set up a scholarship fund to honour the memory of an Indian-origin emergency medical technician, who died in the line of duty in July this year, […]
TORONTO: A 40-year-old Indian-origin woman is facing murder charges for stabbing to a woman death in the heart of Toronto, police said. Rohinie Bisesar stabbed the victim at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto’s financial district […]
NEW YORK: A 57-year-old Indian-origin pediatrician in the US has been jailed for 30 years for sexual exploitation of a child and producing child pornography. Rakesh Punn, of New York had pleaded guilty in April […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin scientist has developed a new, open-source software that can help track the embryonic development and movement of neuronal cells throughout the body of the worm, and is now available to scientists. The software is […]
LONDON: A 11-year-old Indian-origin girl, Anushka Binoy, is one of Britain’s brainiest students. She bagged the highest possible score in the IQ test of Mensa, the largest high IQ society in the world. Binoy has joined […]
LONDON (TIP): Kalyani Kaul, a prominent barrister of Indian-origin who has handled high-profile cases, has been sworn in as a Circuit Judge in the UK. 54-year-old Kalyani, who has spent much of the past 32 […]
LONDON: An Indian-origin father who was found hanging here earlier this year strangled his wife and twin teenage daughters before committing suicide following a violent row over his in-laws allegedly “cheating” him out of money, […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian-origin woman director of a Singapore company was on Nov 12 charged with making false declarations of foreign employees’ salaries to the government to obtain Employment Passes (EPs). Parmjit Kaur, a former […]
TORONTO: Navdeep Bains, 38-year-old Indian-origin Canadian Sikh MP who played a key role in prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau‘s leadership bid in 2013, is likely to get a ministerial berth, Toronto Star reports. The Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau […]
NEW YORK: An enterprising 11-year-old Indian-origin girl in the US has started her own business selling cryptographically secure passwords generated by dice rolls at USD 2 each. Mira Modi, a sixth grader in New York City, runs […]
JOHANNESBURG: Indian-origin toddler Khiyara Seedat has become South Africa’s youngest ever national karate champion, just a day after her third birthday last week. Sedate Khiyara, the daughter of karate instructor Sensei Ahmed Shaheen Seedat – from […]
NEW YORK: In a rare criminal action on Wall Street, an Indian-origin former Goldman Sachs banker suspected of taking confidential documents from a source inside the government has agreed to plead guilty. Goldman Sachs is also facing an array […]
A ‘drunk driver’ rammed her car into a crowd of spectators at Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing at least four people and injuring 47 others, Stillwater police said. The accused driver of the vehicle – Adacia Avery […]
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