NRI News
Two Indians among 2012 Yale World Fellows
Thursday, 05/04/2012
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/two-indians-among-2012-yale-world-fellows/40739
Yale University has selected 16 World Fellows for 2012. Two of them are from India, bringing the total number of fellows from India to 11 since the programme started in 2002.
Indian American charged in a hit-and-run case flees to India
Wednesday, 04/04/2012
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/Indian-American-charged-in-a-hit-and-run-case-flees-to-India/articleshow/12528556.cms
The FBI and California police are looking for an Indian American, charged in a hit-and-run case that killed a 28-year-old woman.
Museum on Punjabi immigrants opens in America
Tuesday, 03/04/2012
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/Museum-on-Punjabi-immigrants-opens-in-America/articleshow/12512764.cms
WASHINGTON: Capturing the story of over 100 years of the small yet influential Punjabi community in the US, a multi-media exhibition celebrating its contribution has opened in a Sikh-dominated Californian city.
NRIs urged to raise funds to save shrine
Tuesday, 03/04/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120403/punjab.htm#7
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) will inquire into the circumstances leading to the proposed sale of a 92-year-old gurdwara at Paldi in Vancouver.
Indian origin people close to being in 100 Americans
Monday, 02/04/2012
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/other-news/Indian-origin-people-close-to-being-in-100-Americans/articleshow/12504927.cms
People of Indian origin are close to making one percent of America's population of 308.7 million with their numbers shooting up by a whopping 69.37 percent over the last decade.
Indian, Pakistani minors forcibly married in Britain
Sunday, 01/04/2012
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/indian-pakistani-minors-forcibly-married-britain/40108
Up to 400 children, including from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, were coerced into or threatened with marriage in Britain last year, a government report has said.
Canadian Sikhs show solidarity with Rajoana
Thursday, 29/03/2012
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/PunjabAbroadCanada/Canadian-Sikhs-show-solidarity-with-Rajoana/SP-Article1-832431.aspx
Over 5 000 Canadian Sikhs gathered at Parliament Hill in Ottawa to show solidarity with Balwant Singh Rajoana who is on death row in India for the 1995 assassination of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.
Indian-origin lawyer in Strauss-Kahn's defence team
Wednesday, 28/03/2012
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/Indian-origin-lawyer-in-Strauss-Kahns-defence-team/articleshow/12452759.cms
An Indian-origin lawyer is part of the defence team of embattled former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn who is fighting to have a civil lawsuit against him in a sexual assualt case dismissed.
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