NRI News
US lawmakers ask basketball body to review turban ban
Friday, 25/07/2014
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
WASHINGTON: Appalled by the reports that Sikh players from India were asked to remove their turbans before an international basketball match, top lawmakers in the US have launched a campaign asking Fiba, the game’s governing body, to review the discriminatory policy.
British Punjabi’s son wins silver for India at Glasgow
Friday, 25/07/2014
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CHANDIGARH: When most of the Punjabi youth dream of singing “God Save the Queen” (England’s national anthem), Navjot Chana, whose father is a British citizen, could have the UK citizenship easily. Instead, he preferred to don the Tricolour and make his own country proud.
Indian-origin author in Booker Prize longlist
Thursday, 24/07/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140724/world.htm#3
London : This year's Man Booker longlist announced today was dominated by American and British authors with no Indian finding a place among the competitors for the coveted prize in its first incarnation as a global literary award.
Charges against US Sikh dropped
Thursday, 24/07/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140724/punjab.htm#19
New York : A US court here has dismissed criminal charges against a Sikh for carrying a kirpan to a city airport. The New York City Port Authority Police Department had in May issued criminal summons to Maninder Singh for carrying two kirpans through security checkpoint at the John F Kennedy International airport here.
Charges dropped against a Sikh for carrying kirpan at airport
Thursday, 24/07/2014
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New York: A US court here has dismissed criminal charges against a Sikh man for carrying a kirpan to a city airport.
US Sikh group starts campaign against Modi
Wednesday, 23/07/2014
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WASHINGTON: A New York-based Sikh rights group, which had earlier campaigned against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, has launched an online petition campaign urging US President Barack Obama to cancel the invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in view of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat.
Indian slapped with travel ban over unpaid bills
Monday, 21/07/2014
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Riyadh: An Indian in Saudi Arabia has been slapped with a travel ban over his inability to pay staggeringly high phone bills for SIM cards that he claimed were falsely registered under his name, a media report said Sunday.
India among big investors in UK
Sunday, 20/07/2014
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LONDON: Indian projects figure among the highest foreign investment in Britain in the last financial year, a year that saw the highest inward investment into the country since the 1980s, official sources said.
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