NRI News
US man gets 13-yr jail for assaulting Sikh
Thursday, 17/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
WASHINGTON: An American man, who brutally hit an 82-year-old Sikh with a steel rod outside a gurdwara in California two years ago, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on charges of hate crime.
Two Punjabis named in NZ car crash
Tuesday, 15/09/2015
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=139845&boxid=59551&uid=&dat=2015-09-15
Wellington: Two Punjabis have been named among the victims of a car crash along Auckland’s Muriwai beach, a media report said.
Oz Sikh taxi drivers to strike over Uber
Tuesday, 15/09/2015
http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/
Canberra : A number of Sikh taxi owners and drivers in the Australian capital are planning to go on a strike on Wednesday to protest the arrival of ride-sharing company Uber in the city.
Canberra’s Sikh cabbies to protest Uber arrival
Tuesday, 15/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
CANBERRA: A number of Sikh taxi owners and drivers in the Australian capital are planning to go on a strike on Wednesday to protest the arrival of ride-sharing company Uber in the city.
UK envoy satisfied with Indian authorities’ response
Monday, 14/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
CHANDIGARH: British High Commissioner Sir James Bevan on Sunday said they were satisfied with the response of the Indian railway authorities after a toy train got derailed on the Kalka-Shimla narrow gauge section, a UNESCO heritage track, on Saturday. Of the 37 British nationals, two died while 13 others were injured.
Punjab-origin journo discovers family’s fate during Partition
Monday, 14/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
LONDON: Well-known Punjabiorigin and half-Sikh English journalist and television host Anita Rani was reduced to tears during a BBC programme after discovering her family’s fate in the violence that consumed India after the subcontinent’s partition at the end of the British rule in 1947, a media report has said.
Pritam lone Punjabi winner in Singapore polls
Sunday, 13/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
SINGAPORE: Pritam Singh (39) has emerged as the lone Punjabi winner in the recently concluded Singapore general elections, held amid a sympathy wave after the death of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew earlier this year. This is a decline from the 2011 general elections, where two Punjabis — Inderjeet Singh of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) and Pritam Singh of the Worker’s Party (WP) — were elected.
No hate crime charges in Sikh-American assault
Sunday, 13/09/2015
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=139710&boxid=57860&uid=&dat=2015-09-13
New York: Terming the incident as a “road rage” case, US authorities have not brought hate crime charges against a teenager who brutally attacked a 53-year-old Sikh- American man, sparking outrage among community members.
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