Indian-Origin
15 Indian-American students qualify for Spelling Bee semis
WASHINGTON (TIP): 42 have made it to the national Spelling Bee semifinals. Of them 15 are Indian-American students. Six of them are girls. The Indian American students account for almost one-third of the total 42 […]
Obama terms Srikanth Srinivasan as a ‘Favorite’ person
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama has described Indian-origin Srikanth Srinivasan, who created history by becoming a top federal judge, as one of his “favourite” persons. “One of my favourite people right now [is], Sri […]
PROMINENT LEGAL LUMINARIES OF INDIAN ORIGIN IN THE US
WASHINGTON (TIP): Recently, Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America’s second highest court. But Srinivasan is not the only famous person of Indian origin who […]
Indians account for 22% of Britain’s ultra-rich cluba
NEW YORK (TIP): Super-rich Indians account for more than 20% of the wealth of ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals in Britain, a new list showed on Tuesday, March 5. As a national group, they are […]
Indian-Origin Lottery Winner’s Body To Be Exhumed: US Court
NEW YORK (TIP): A US court has given the go-ahead for exhumation of the body of an Indian-origin businessman in Chicago, who died of cyanide poisoning under mysterious circumstances days after he won a US […]
Mom Kills Boy for Not Memorizing Quran
LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin mother who beat her son “like a dog” for not being able to memorize passages of the Quran, has been found guilty by a British court of murdering him and setting […]
Indian-origin judge named next chief justice of Singapore
SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian-origin judge has been named as the new chief justice of Singapore, making him the first from the community to head the courts. Sundaresh Menon, presently Singapore’s judge of appeal, will assume […]