NRI News
Sikh group files lawsuit for Modi’s visa records
Saturday, 05/09/2015
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=139193&boxid=58153&uid=&dat=2015-09-05
New York :A US-based Sikh rights group has filed a lawsuit against the State Department seeking release of documents relating to the Obama administration’s decision to lift the visa ban on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that had facilitated his visit to the United States last year.
Punjab-origin man makes it big in Canada’s financial sector
Wednesday, 02/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
TORONTO: Toronto-based Bhim D Asdhir, whose family hails from Ludhiana, is among those first generation Indo-Canadians who have scripted super success stories in the country’s financial sector.
Now who’s Bobby Dhaliwal? He wants to be Canada’s PM
Wednesday, 02/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
TOPSY-TURVY Comedian tells how sometimes what serious appeal can’t do, wit can in the run-up to the October elections
US Sikhs vote to elect new gurdwara leaders
Tuesday, 01/09/2015
http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/
Los Angeles : Ending years of factional infighting and legal battles, thousands of Sikhs in one of America’s largest gurdwara in a Californian city have voted to elect their new leaders.
UK cops to use tip-offs from ‘tantriks’ to solve cases?
Tuesday, 01/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
LONDON: Police in Britain have been asked not to dismiss tipoffs from psychics and clairvoyants while investigating missing persons’ cases, drawing sharp reactions from Indian-origin rationalists, who termed the move as “shameful”.
Sikh cabbie ‘Australian of the Day’ for feeding homeless
Tuesday, 01/09/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
MELBOURNE: An Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver in Australia has been named ‘Australian of the Day’ for feeding the homeless in Darwin for the past three years. Tejinder Pal Singh has dedicated the last Sunday of the month to feed the poor and homeless locals of northern Darwin after he finishes his shift as a cabbie.
Canadian Sikh guarding ‘Tomb of Unknown Soldier’
Saturday, 29/08/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
OTTAWA: In a first, a Sikh soldier has been appointed to watch over the ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’ at the National War Memorial here in Canada, a media report said.
Indians top the charts of non-EU-born residents in UK
Friday, 28/08/2015
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
LONDON: New figures released on Thursday indicate that India is the most common non-UK country of birth of residents in 2014, numbering 793,000, which accounts for 9.6 per cent of the total non-UK born population.
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