NRI News

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.

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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’.

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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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Gurdwara vandalised in US state of Washington

Friday, 04/03/2016

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/gurdwara-vandalised-in-us-state-of-washington/204580.html

Washington : In an apparent hate crime, a gurdwara in the US state of Washington was vandalised by a “naked” man who desecrated sacred items of the Sikh worship place, drawing condemnation from the community leaders.

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Sikh boy mocked, hit on bus in Australia for wearing turban

Friday, 04/03/2016

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

MELBOURNE: In a hate-fuelled attack, a 13-year-old Sikh schoolboy in Australia, travelling in a bus here, was assaulted, mocked and threatened with being stabbed for wearing a turban.

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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.

 

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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.