India Must Be Economic Buffer to US in Afghanistan: Ami Bera
By Indiawest United States: India could serve as an economic buffer to Afghanistan’s economy as the U.S. completes its draw-down of troops in the country next year, said Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., in an interview before embarking on an eight-day trip to India Aug. 22. India has a critical role as a strategic and economic partner […]
Outside Mumbai, Reports of Rape Buried in Pages of Newspapers
By NY times It was a familiar scene in the lower house of the Indian Parliament on Monday as Sushma Swaraj, the Lok Sabha leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, demanded the death penalty for the five men who allegedly gang-rapeda 22-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai last week while she was on assignment for an English-language magazine. A […]
India’s Chandrayaan helps NASA detect water on Moon
Washington: Using data collected by India’s Chandrayaan mission, NASA has detected magmatic water locked under the surface of the Moon. The findings represent the first remote detection of this form of water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior, NASA researchers said. Earlier studies had shown the existence of magmatic water in lunar samples returned […]
The Rape Suspect Who Slept on Sidewalks
MUMBAI —Not far from the abandoned mill where a 22 –year-old photojournalist was raped last week in Mumbai is a street lined with ramshackle structures built with corrugated iron sheets and covered in blue tarpaulin. Before his arrest on Saturday, Vijay Jadhav, 19, one of the five suspects in the case, lived here in a […]
Rupee posts biggest day fall in 18 years, ends at 68.85 per dollar
Mumbai: The rupee slumped to a record low near 69 to the dollar on Wednesday on growing worries that foreign investors will continue to sell out of a country facing stiff economic challenges and volatile global markets. The pummeling in markets sent the rupee reeling 3.7 per cent to an all-time low of 68.85 with […]
Indian American Activists Protest Climate Polluters
By Indiawest RICHMOND, Calif:Over two dozen members of Brown and Green: South Asians for Climate Justice marched through the streets here Aug. 3 to the gates of the Chevron refinery, demanding that Chevron stop refining dirty Canadian tar sands oil, and reduce its impact on the climate—a factor in disasters like the 2010 Pakistan flood […]
Anna Hazare, Vidya Balan Lead Biggest NY India Day Parade
By Indiawest NEW YORK: India’s anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare and Bollywood actress Vidya Balan led the largest Indian Independence Day celebrations overseas, with over 200,000 people carrying the tricolor witnessing an impressive parade here which displayed India’s vibrant culture. Colorful floats, marching bands and convertibles made their way down Madison Avenue in Manhattan with revelers cheering […]
The Ashes, 5th Test: Shane Watson puts Australia on top in finale
London: Shane Watson’s Test-best 176 left Australia firmly in charge of the fifth Ashes match against England at The Oval. At stumps on Wednesday’s first day, Australia were 307 for four as they sought a consolation victory in a five-match series already won by England at 3-0 up. Watson put a disappointing series with the […]
‘1,300 killed in chemical attack’ near Syrian capital Damascus
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syria’s opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of gassing many hundreds of people — by one report as many as 1,300 — on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical weapons attack in decades.Western and regional countries called for UNchemical weapons investigators — who arrived in Damascus just three days ago […]
Tests matches are cricket’s ‘life source’ – Dravid
Rahul Dravid has made a spirited call for nurturing first-class and Test cricket, saying the longer and more traditional formats provide players with the grounding needed to prosper in the newer, shorter versions. The steps Dravid suggested for bolstering Tests included a more serious consideration of day-night Tests, increasing pay for long-form specialists, a streamlined and […]
Indian rupee may crash to 70 per dollar in a month: Deutsche
The Indian rupee could crash to 70 against the U.S. dollar in a month or so, Deutsche Bank said in a report on Wednesday. The ominous forecast comes at a time when the partially convertible rupee has breached 64 to the dollar to a record low. “We continue to believe that fundamentally the rupee is […]
Doctors Suspect Rare Disease Might Have Afflicted Indian Child
When 23-year-old Rajeshwari Karnan delivered a boy in May in Nedimozhinur village in Villipuram district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, she and her husband, both farm laborers, were ecstatic. Their first child, born two years ago, was a girl, and Ms. Karnan was fervently hoping their second one would be a boy. But the […]
Rising Onion Prices Tempt Highway Robbers in India
NEW DELHI— On Saturday night, Mintu Chottelal, 30, a mini truck driver and his helper, Rinku Gujjar, 19, were driving along the Delhi-Jaipur Highway on their way from the town of Nagore in Rajasthan to the town of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. Suddenly a minivan came to a halt in front of them, three men […]
China provokes India again, its troops enter Arunachal Pradesh and camp for 3-4 days: reports
New Delhi: In a repeat of the April incident in Ladakh, Chinese troops reportedly intruded into Arunachal Pradesh at two places last week. Army and police sources have confirmed that they camped for at least three to four days in one area, about 20 km within Indian territory. The first intrusion in Arunachal Pradesh was discovered […]
Vedic Cultural Center Hosts 4th Annual Ananda Mela
By Indiawest REDMOND, United States: Over the July 27-28 weekend, over 15,000 people visited the City Hall campus here to attend the fourth Ananda Mela, whose chief attraction was a 20-foot long model of the river Ganga, tracing its course from its Himalayan origin through the plains of northern India into the Bay of Bengal. Organized […]
SF Millionaire Pleads Not Guilty to Domestic Violence Charges
By Indiawest Gurbaksh Chahal, an Internet millionaire who founded his first company at age 16, pleaded not guilty Aug. 9 in San Francisco, Calif., Superior Court, to 47 charges of domestic violence in connection with an argument with his girlfriend. Chahal, 31, posted a $1 million bail and relinquished his passport to authorities after his […]
Indians account for 22% of Britain’s ultra-rich club
Dipankar De Sarkar, Hindustan Times Super-rich Indians account for more than 20% of the wealth of ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals in Britain, a new list showed on Tuesday. As a national group, they are second only to expat Russians. The list, published by the Singapore-based Wealth-X group, places steel magnate and ArcelorMittal chairman Lakshmi […]
Bangladesh Descends into Chaos
MUMBAI—Last Saturday night, Adilur Rahman Khan arrived home in Dhaka after visiting his family over Eid to find a group of men waiting outside his house. Mr. Khan, secretary of the prominent Bangladeshi human rights group Odhikar, had been expecting this day might come, but being confronted by members of the Detective Branch, who were […]
Modi gets invitation to visit UK, to address House of Commons
Nearly 10 months after the British government warmed up to Narendra Modi, the India groups of the country’s two main political parties have invited the Gujarat chief minister to visit the UK. The ball was set rolling by the Opposition party’s Labour Friends of India when its chairman, Barry Gardiner MP, sent a letter to […]
Rajya Sabha passes bill for compulsory marriage registration
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill which makes it mandatory to register all marriages, irrespective of religion. The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill will, however, not make the unregistered marriages void, Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal said. “The message that marriages must be registered must reach everybody in the […]
