MUMBAI: Sabyasachi’s brand is synonymous with uber luxurious Indian wear and exquisite jewellery. Several celebrities are seen regularly donning his creations, and a few of them have also opted to wear custom Sabyasachi lehengas for their weddings. On July 6, a post went up on Sabyasachi’s official Instagram handle which ...
Read More »Indian Uber driver sentenced to 3 years on kidnapping female passenger in New York
NEW YORK: An Indian-origin Uber driver has been sentenced to three years in prison, ordered to pay over 3,000 dollars as a penalty for kidnapping one of his female passengers and dropping her off on an isolated highway. Harbir Parmar, 25 of New York had pled guilty in March this ...
Read More »Payal Rohatgi wants India to be a ‘Hindu nation’
NEW DELHI: Indian actress Payal Rohatgi has often been in the headlines for her Twitter rows, be it her fanatic views aimed at glorifying the Indian ritual of ‘Sati’ or the latest demand of hers for India to be the first ‘Hindu’ country on the atlas. Payal has done a ...
Read More »Indian worker accused of raping cows at shelter held on animal cruelty charges
NEW DELHIA labourer is accused of raping five cows at a cattle shelter in India after horrified staff saw the surveillance footage of the incident. The man was arrested after cattle shelter volunteers claimed they saw him committing the perverted acts, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, writes the Mirror. Shelter workers lay in wait for the offender to return to the ...
Read More »Indian man jailed for stalking woman in UK
LONDON: An Indian man who stalked a woman over a period of 18 months after she attended to him just once in a shop in London has been jailed for 29 months. Rohit Sharma was jailed at Isleworth Crown Court in London on Wednesday after pleading guilty to stalking, harassment ...
Read More »Indian extradited to US from Singapore in call center fraud
AHMEDABAD: Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, 42, of Ahmedabad, India, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in a Houston, Texas federal court for his role in a case that was first announced in 2016, charging 60 people with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Patel ran the HGlobal call center, one of ...
Read More »Indian-origin stabbed to death in Munich
MUNICH: An Indian man died and his wife sustained injuries after they were stabbed by an immigrant near Munich in Germany, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said Saturday. “Indian couple Prashant and Smita Basarur were stabbed by an immigrant near Munich. Unfortunately, Prashant has expired. Smita is stable. We are ...
Read More »Indian man gets 8-year jail in Canada for causing bus crash that killed 16 people
TORONTO: A 30-year-old Indian truck driver in Canada was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday for causing a bus crash that killed 16 people, mostly members of a junior hockey team, in one of the worst disasters in the country’s sporting community. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu pleaded guilty in ...
Read More »EU MEPs ask India to stop atrocities in Kashmir
BRUSSELS: An overwhelming majority of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) attending a landmark event on the rights situation in occupied Kashmir on Tuesday put their weight behind the recommendations of a United Nations report on the state of human rights in the valley, and called on India to immediately ...
Read More »‘Love Sonia’ gives voice to ‘voiceless girls’
LONDON (Reuters): Her role as a victim of sex trafficking was so harrowing that Mrunal Thakur almost backed out. To research the experiences of women and girls sold into the sex trade, like the title character she plays in the film “Love Sonia”, Thakur met survivors in red light districts ...
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