In another vicious attack against Indians in Australia, a 12-year-old student was bullied and brutally punched in the face and had to undergo a surgery to reconstruct his eye socket. The boy, who asked not to be named, told a leading newspaper that two year 8 boys, whom he did not know, came up behind [...]
When Narendra Modi complains, BJP president Nitin Gadkari has to listen. Gadkari has asked senior party leader Sushma Swaraj not to make “hurtful” comments after the Gujarat Chief Minister complained about her. Swaraj, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, had told an election rally in Patna “Modi’s magic has worked well in Gujarat. It [...]
The Human Rights Party, a political group representing disaffected Malaysian Indians, posted a message to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on its website to remind that their community faces “state-sponsored racial and religious segregation” in Malaysia from “womb to tomb.” According to the 2002 High-Level Committee on the Indian Diaspora, Malaysia had the world’s second-largest Indian [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is heading for Asia and the Pacific to cement ties with some of Beijing’s nervous neighbors, part of the Obama administration’s efforts to counter China’s increasingly assertive stance in its backyard. Clinton leaves on Wednesday on a two-week, seven-nation tour designed in part to allay regional concerns that as [...]
A CBI special court in Kochi on Thursday sentenced former inspector general of police K Lakshmana to life in prison forty years after Naxalite leader A Verghese was killed in an ‘encounter’. The court had acquitted former director general of police P Vijayan (83) on Wednesday. The first accused in the case, head constable Ramachandran [...]
Amid preparations for US President Barack Obama’s visit, India and the US on Wednesday continued to spar over the issue of sharing specific intelligence relating to the designs of David Coleman Headley, Washington insisting it has been sharing with New Delhi intelligence on “a daily basis” before and after the 26/11 attacks. Home Secretary GK [...]
The chairman of British Airways has complained that the United States makes excessive demands for passenger screening, including forcing people to take off their shoes. A leading daily reported that Martin Broughton aired his complaint in a question-and-answer session with journalists on Tuesday. British Airways says the report was accurate but it does not have [...]
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatens in a new audio tape to kill French citizens to avenge their country’s support for the US-led war in Afghanistan and a new law that will ban burqa. In the tape obtained by satellite television station Al-Jazeera and then posted on its website on Wednesday, bin Laden said France [...]
A leading Australian feminist on Friday slammed the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) for banning a billboard advertising campaign for Calvin Klein jeans it considered “suggestive of violence and rape”. Melbourne University lecturer Lauren Rosewarne told national broadcaster ABC that the ASB was wrongly equating group sex with gang rape. She said that “apparently there’s no [...]
Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Nyan Win has told his regional counterparts that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi may be released after November 7 elections, said a diplomatic source. “He said they will release Aung San Suu Kyi maybe after the elections,” a foreign ministry official from one of the delegations at the Association of Southeast [...]