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The issue of abduction of five Indian sailors in Nigeria is being earnestly scrutinized by the Indian government. External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday urged the Indian High Commissioner in Nigeria to take the issue of abduction of five Indian sailors on top priority and ensure their release. Swaraj also...

An Indian origin journalist G D ‘Robert’ Govender has been honored with 2019 V Krishna Menon award in the United Kingdom for his outstanding contribution as a pioneer of decolonized journalism. Marking the 123rd birth anniversary of an Indian diplomat and politician V K Krishna Menon, the South Africa-born journalist...

An Indian family of four, including a set of 10-year-old twin boys, have set a new record for family skydiving. The professional skydive couple Shital Mahajan-Rane and Vaibhav Rane, and their twins Vrushabh and Vaibhav accomplished the feat on Friday from a Super Caravan 206 aircraft flying at a height...

An Indian origin man in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of dangerous driving which led to the death of another man. On January 6, 2018, in northwest London, the 47-year-old Jaskaren Dayal crashed his Mercedes into the victim’s vehicle while driving drunk...

Sikh Khalsa commander Hari Singh Nalwa’s 19th-century gem-set turban was among the key highlights of an auction held by Sotheby’s auction house in London. The enameled turban ornament at the Arts of the Islamic World auction fetched 350,000 pounds, nearly double of up to 180,000 pounds on Wednesday. The sale by...

It was the late 1960s when new mothers especially were very often enticed with baby food supplements promising optimum levels of iron, calcium, and scores of mineral. However, it was all spurious. And, it was Annapurna Shukla, from Varanasi, who turned up with her pioneering research in infant nutrition and...

Pakistan’s Punjab province government has allocated 70 acre land for setting up international university named after Guru Nanak in Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of the first Sikh Guru. The move has come amid the demand from Sikhs living in Pakistan to construct a university named after Guru Nanak Dev, the...

An Indian origin man in the United Kingdom has been jailed for six years and one month for befriending six women, whom he met online, to exploit them as a sole purpose. Besides the jail term, the man is under a five-year investigation into his actions that included wining...

The Delhi High Court directed the authorities on Thursday to issue a passport to an Indianorigin woman staying in France, whose travel document was confiscated and citizenship revoked. Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked the passport authorities to issue the passport to the woman within four weeks. The court was hearing a petition...

The 10-year-old boy from Sydney has donated a sum of Rs 30,000 from saving pocket money for years for the treatment of poor patients at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh. Gurkiret Singh is following the footprints of his grandmother who donated all her life savings of...