NRI News
New UK crackdown on students visa soon, Indians to be affected
Tuesday, 14/07/2015
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LONDON: Indian and other nonEU students at British colleges (not universities) will be banned from working during the period of their courses from August as part of a new crackdown on student visa fraud. A Home Office spokesperson told HT on Monday that working rights of non-EU students at further education colleges were being removed to ensure that they did not use them as a “back door to the country’s job market”.
Punjab-born pilot 4th in pre-European paragliding contest
Saturday, 11/07/2015
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DHARAMSALA: India’s top ranked paragliding pilot, Gurpreet Dhindsa, who resides in Himachal Pradesh, secured the fourth position in the recently held pre-European and & Hungarian Championship at Kruševo, Macedonia. The championship, a traditional competition in Macedonia that was also the pre event for the 2016 European Championship, was held from June 29 to July 4.
Varsity to honour Indian surgeon in UK Iran nuke deal: Impasse over weapons persists
Friday, 10/07/2015
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LONDON: Shiv Pande, a Liverpoolbased doctor who has made major contributions in the areas of charity, academia and broadcasting besides his medical profession after moving to Britain in 1971, is to be honoured by the University of Central Lancashire on Monday.
Seven years on, Sikh gets respite from Disney discrimination
Friday, 10/07/2015
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NEW YORK: A Sikh-American employee at the Walt Disney World in Florida, who was barred for seven years from working in full view of customers due his religious appearance, has achieved a significant victory with the company agreeing to end the segregation.
UK regulator drops probe against Hindu body
Thursday, 09/07/2015
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NCHT’S APPEAL ON ITS WEBSITE HAD EVOKED COMPLAINTS TO THE CHARITY COMMISSION, SINCE IT BREACHED RULES OF POITICAL NEUTRALITY
57-YEAR-OLD INDIAN-AMERICAN ASSAULTED IN NEW JERSEY
Wednesday, 08/07/2015
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WASHINGTON: A 57-year-old Indian American man became last Wednesday the latest victim of an assailant who, the police said, has targeted men from the same community in New Jersey state.
Sikh man jumps in front of train to save grandchild in Australia
Wednesday, 08/07/2015
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SYDNEY: A 62-year-old Sikh man jumped in front of a fast moving train to dramatically save his 18-month-old granddaughter after the baby’s stroller fell on tracks at a railway station in Australia, media reported on Tuesday.
Sikh saint-soldier’s artefacts on display in Singapore gurdwara
Sunday, 05/07/2015
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SINGAPORE: A two-day exhibition was put up at a gurdwara in Singapore on Saturday to display the artefacts belonging to a Sikh saint-soldier.
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