Indian-origin doctor gets suspended sentence in Australia

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 15:34

Indian-origin doctor Jayant Patel, facing a series of charges of manslaughter and fraud, would now walk free after an Australian court today sentenced him to two years in jail, wholly suspended.

Indian-origin Kshama Sawant elected to Seattle City Council

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 00:54

Indian-American Kshama Sawant has been elected to the prestigious Seattle City Council, making her the first socialist to be voted to an elected office, 97 years after the city sent their first outspoken radical into office.

Singapore court jails Indian-origin sisters for housebreaking

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 13:45

Two sisters of Indian origin were sentenced to probation and jail for housebreaking offences by a Singaporean court today.

Indian-origin former Canadian MP campaigns on fraud marriages

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 17:22

Indian-origin former Canadian parliamentarian Ruby Dhalla has kickstarted a campaign to help women victims of fraud marriages in Punjab.

Concern growing over missing Indian-origin woman in UK

Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 14:37

Concern is growing for a young Indian-origin woman who has been missing from home in Bradford in northern England for a week.

Indian-origin Stanford professor succumbs to leukaemia

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 13:07

Fervently awaiting a bone-marrow donor, Nalini Ambady, an Indian origin professor at Stanford University succumbed to leukaemia early Tuesday in Boston, the US, a family friend said here Wednesday.

Illegal immigrants asked to leave Britain via text messages

Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 20:30

Britain sent messages to nearly 60,000 illegal immigrants warning them to leave the country, but the campaign sparked a controversy after some legal migrants, including an Indian-origin rights activist, received the alert.

Gender-based abortions in some circumstances are lawful in UK

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 01:02

Doctors in Britain have been informed that they can carry out sex-selective abortions in certain circumstances and it would be lawful, the country`s top prosecutor on Monday said, justifying a decision not to prosecute two Indian-origin doctors accused of arranging abortions.

Indian-origin man`s body lies on his bed, police clueless

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 23:05

British police failed to find an Indian-origin man who was lying dead in his bed for 12 days after taking an overdose of prescription painkillers, an inquest has heard.