NRI News
25 Sikh stowaways found in truck in Belgium
Friday, 11/03/2016
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/diaspora/25-sikh-stowaways-found-in-truck-in-belgium/207351.html
London : At least 25 illegal Sikh immigrants, including children, were found hiding in a secret compartment of a Romanian truck by the police at an industrial zone in Belgium.
US teen gets 2-year probation for attacking Sikh-American
Friday, 11/03/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
NEW YORK: A US teenager has been sentenced to two years’ probation for brutally assaulting a Sikh-American man last year. The teen has also been charged with hate crime for calling the victim a “terrorist” and “bin Laden”, and has been ordered to perform community service for the Sikh community.
US teen gets 2-yr probation for attacking Sikh-American
Thursday, 10/03/2016
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/us-teen-gets-2-yr-probation-for-attacking-sikh-american/207021.html
New York : A US teenager, charged with hate crime after he brutally assaulted a Sikh-American man last year and called him a “terrorist” and “bin Laden”, has been sentenced to two years’ probation and ordered to perform community service for the Sikh community.
Indian students prefer Britain but visa curbs a dampener: Sarna
Wednesday, 09/03/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
LONDON: Indian students would prefer to come to Britain for higher studies but visa restrictions had led to dwindling numbers in recent years, Indian high commissioner Navtej Sarna said here on Tuesday..
Punjabi youth pleads guilty to Maple Batalia’s murder in Canada
Wednesday, 09/03/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
VANCOUVER: Gurjinder Singh aka Garry Dhaliwal has been given life sentence for the murder of aspiring model and Simon Fraser University student Maple Batalia five years ago.
UK visa fees set for big increase
Tuesday, 08/03/2016
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=151253&boxid=63472&uid=&dat=2016-03-08
LONDON: The British government is set to increase visa fees across most categories of applications from March 18, in a move that will affect thousands of Indians who were the largest group of skilled workers to be granted visas to live and work in Britain last year. The changes, proposed in January this year, mean a 2 per cent rise for most fees including the short-term visitor visas and most work or study applications and a 25 per cent increase in fees for nationality and settlement visa applications.
Tribute to Canada’s Sikh defence minister in a chicken burger
Monday, 07/03/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
TORONTO: Canada’s first Sikh defence minister Harjit Sajjan now has a chicken burger named after him and it is called ‘The Minister of National Deliciousness’.
Sikhs also join Trump bandwagon
Monday, 07/03/2016
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=151196&boxid=58275&uid=&dat=2016-03-07
Washington: A group of Sikhs and Muslims mostly from South Asian countries have joined the Donald Trump bandwagon in the US state of Maryland, asserting that the Republican Presidential frontrunner is ‘not against’ their communities.Under the banner of ‘Sikh Americans for Trump’ and ‘Muslim Americans for Trump’ scores of Sikhs and Muslims held their first meeting in a suburb of Washington DC in Maryland, wherein a representative from the Trump campaign addressed them.
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