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‘Bombshell Bandit’ nurse jailed for bank robberies in US

Saturday, 11/04/2015

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LOS ANGELES: A 24-year-old Indian-origin nurse, dubbed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as “the Bombshell Bandit”, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison and fined tens of thousands of dollars for robbing banks in the US state of Arizona.

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WW-I legacy: Sikh to run in UK marathon

Saturday, 11/04/2015

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Shyam Bhatia in London : India’s World War-I martyrs will be remembered when Angad Singh runs the Brighton Marathon on Sunday. Dressed in the uniform of an Indian soldier from that era, Angad, 27, says he is raising funds and awareness for a British Charity, the UK Punjab Heritage Association, which tells the story of Sikhs in the war. He is the son of Amritpal Singh from Solkhian village in Ropar who came to the UK in the late 1970s.

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Indian sentenced in US to 6 years in prison for fraud

Saturday, 11/04/2015

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New York : An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to upto six years in prison for defrauding start-ups in the US by convincing them to hire him as consultant based on stolen identities and false claims of knowing millionaire capitalists, including the founding members of Facebook.

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London police probe ‘£200 mn’ jewel heist

Thursday, 09/04/2015

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LONDON: Gems and jewellery worth nearly £200 million in 60-70 safe deposit boxes were opened using heavy cutting equipment during a daring heist carried out over the Easter holiday weekend in London’s centre of jewellery, Scotland Yard said on Wednesday.

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US H1-B visa cap reached within 5 days for 3rd consecutive year

Wednesday, 08/04/2015

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New York : The US today said it has reached the cap for the much-coveted H-1B work visas for 2016 within the first five days for the third consecutive year and will now conduct a lottery system to allocate the visas highly popular among IT professionals from countries like India.

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Punjab Politics News

Punjab General News

RANA GURJIT SINGH INAUGURATES MARKFED SALES BOOTH AT LOHIAN

Thursday, 01/08/2019

https://www.brightpunjabexpress.com/index.php/2019/07/31/rana-gurjit-singh-inaugurates-markfed-sales-booth-at-lohian/

Jalandhar : In a major step to boost the rural economy besides providing employment to youth in villages, MARKFED has launched a sale booth in Lohian, which would, provides more than 100 eatable items.

 

NRI NEWS

Indian-Americans urge Trump to ‘fully support’ India on Kashmir

Sunday, 04/08/2019

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/indian-americans-urge-trump-to-fully-support-india-on-kashmir/813832.html

Washington : The Indian-American community in the US has urged the Trump administration to “fully support” India’s decision to revoke the constitutional provision that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir and to continue to exert pressure on Pakistan to end its support to cross-border terrorism.