NRI News
A first: SC nominated to UK deputy mayor’s post
Friday, 16/05/2014
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=102927&boxid=59089&uid=&dat=2014-05-16
Jalandhar : Punjabis abroad have emerged with flying colours in every field and adding another feather to their kitty was the achievement of an NRI from Doaba belt who has become the first ever Scheduled Caste (SC) Deputy Mayor of Gravesham in the UK.
Punjabi-origin member quits far-right UK party over ‘racist populism’
Thursday, 15/05/2014
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LONDON: A Punjabi-origin member of Britain’s far-right UK Independence Party (UKIP) has quit the party on the grounds that it has descended into a “terrifying form of racist populism” for electoral gains.
Punjab-born councillor becomes mayor in Britain
Wednesday, 14/05/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140514/punjab.htm#21
London : An India-born councillor has been elected mayor in Erewash ward in Britain’s Derbyshire, a media report said. The Conservative Party’s councillor for Wilsthorpe, Kewal Singh Athwal, became the first Erewash mayor to be elected by a casting vote at a meeting at Long Eaton Town Hall in Derbyshire, Nottingham Post reported on Tuesday.
New York cabbie gets jail for rape
Wednesday, 14/05/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140514/punjab.htm#20
New York : A Sikh taxi driver in New York has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a women passenger three years ago, a media report said. Gurmeet Singh (42) was sentenced after the victim, who took the stand against him, described feeling triumphant, but still traumatised, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.
One more Punjabi shot dead in Philippines
Sunday, 11/05/2014
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=102627&boxid=57562&uid=&dat=2014-05-11
Kapurthala: One more Punjabi NRI was reportedly shot in Zamboanga in the Philippines by two unidentified assailants.
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