London,May 22 : A Sikh bus driver in Finland is fighting for his right to wear a turban while at work.
Gill Sukhdarshan Singh, who works at the Veolia bus company at Vantaa near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, is trying to set a precedent by making the authorities allow him ...
Dubai, May 13 : Nearly half of over $61 billion sent by expatriates in the Gulf countries in 2012 went to India, according to new data.
A total of $29.69 billion was sent as remittances by Indian expatriates living in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in 2012, the arabianbusiness.com ...
Dubai, May 3 : India topped the list of countries to which remittances have been sent by expatriate workers in Qatar in the period 2006-2012, according to a new report.
The annual report of the Qatar Chamber, the representative body of the private sector in that Gulf nation, said that of ...
Durban, April 30 : A South African court has ordered that an Indian origin policeman, who was overlooked for a promotion because of his race, be paid 333,000 rands (approx.$37,000) in back pay, reports said Monday.
Captain M. Munsamy had applied for three posts of superintendent in 2000, but he was ...
Johannesburg,March 11: Former South African president Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing a medical check-up, the presidency said.
The 94-year-old was admitted into a hospital on Saturday, for the second time in three months, for a scheduled medical check-up, Xinhua reported.
Mandela has returned to his Johannesburg home ...
New Delhi,Feb 13 : Seventeen Indian men, 16 of them from Punjab, who were on a death row in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since 2010 on charges of murdering a Pakistani national, have been freed by a Sharjah court and will return home early Tuesday.
The men were allowed to ...
Washington, Jan 27: Indian community in the US celebrated India’s 64th Republic Day with Ambassador Nirupama Rao unfurling the national flag at a colourful function at the Indian embassy here on a clear but chilly day.
After hoisting the flag in front of the embassy overlooking a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, ...
New Delhi,Jan.24: As the Suriname government granted permission in early January to researchers to begin operations to discover the forgotten mass graves of Indian indentured workers killed in police firing in 1902 in the tiny South American nation, where nearly 40 percent of its people are of Indian extraction, new ...
New Delhi, Jan 14The killing of two Indian soldiers -- one of whom was beheaded -- by Pakistani troops is a "gruesome and an unpardonable act," Army Chief General Bikram Singh said Monday, and asserted that his forces "reserve the right to retaliate".
"What they (Pakistan) have done is against the ...
Kochi, Jan 10: President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday said India sees its vast diaspora as a valuable contributor to its growth and is keen to expand the bonds further in building an inclusive and knowledge society.
The president said the record remittance of $67 billion from overseas Indians was a testimony to ...
