NRI News
NZ rejected student visas for 3,864 Indians
Saturday, 09/07/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
MELBOURNE: New Zealand has denied visas to thousands of Indian students after immigration authorities determined that most of the applicants from the country were not “really coming for studies”, a media report said on Friday.
Indian-origin engineer guilty of revenge cyber attack
Thursday, 07/07/2016
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/indian-origin-engineer-guilty-of-revenge-cyber-attack/262508.html
New York : An Indian origin network engineer has pleaded guilty to a revenge cyber attack on a network security company and its clients after he was fired, according to officials.
Canadian gets 10-month jail for punching, kicking Sikh
Monday, 04/07/2016
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TORONTO: A 22-year-old Canadian has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for punching and kicking a Sikh man in a racially motivated attack.
Sikh owner fears hate crime after horse shot dead in United States
Sunday, 03/07/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
We condemn this barbaric action by a misguided individual who took this step of harming an innocent animal to scare the family and the community. We are shocked by this savagery. RAJWANT SINGH, chairman, Sikh Council on Religion and Education’s chairman.
Sikh musician racially profiled at US restaurant
Saturday, 02/07/2016
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=160086&boxid=63422&uid=&dat=2016-07-02
Houston: A Sikh musician has claimed he was racially profiled while having lunch at a restaurant in Orlando when a ‘concerned citizen’ called police to investigate him for carrying a ‘suspicious container’ which just contained his bamboo flutes.
Art exhibit to explore Sikh identity in post-9/11 US
Friday, 01/07/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
NEW YORK: A first-ever exhibition exclusively featuring contributions of the Sikh-Americans to the US will open here next month aiming to spread awareness about Sikhs in the wake of hate crimes against the community after the 9/11 attacks.
‘Hero’ Sikh saves drowning girl using turban in Canada
Friday, 01/07/2016
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=159994&boxid=63042&uid=&dat=2016-07-01
Toronto: A quick-thinking Sikh man is being hailed as a hero in Canada after he saved a teenage girl from drowning by using his turban to pull her out of a frigid river. Avtar Hothi, a 65-year-old farmer from Kamloops, British Columbia, used his turban to save the teen who had fallen into the cold waters of North Thompson river close to his farm.
Sikh WW-II veteran dies in Canada
Thursday, 30/06/2016
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/community/sikh-ww-ii-veteran-dies-in-canada/258989.html
Toronto : Pritam Singh Jauhal, a 95-year-old World War II veteran and a prominent figure in the Sikh-Canadian community who fought and won a high profile battle to allow Sikhs wearing turbans into the Royal Canadian Legions, has died.
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