Search resumes for missing Indian-origin student in Australia
Melbourne: Australian police on Monday resumed the search for an Indo-Canadian bushwalker in the national park in the country's southeast where he was last seen in May. The search for 25-year-old student Prabhdeep Srawn resumed the Kosciuszko National Park after more than six months, with the help of New South Wales Police. Eighteen volunteers were due to arrive from Canada as well to help locate the Indian-origin Bond University law studen
Lanka bans LTTE commemoration
Colombo: Sri Lankan military on Monday banned attempts to commemorate the LTTE rebels, saying any move to glorify terrorists that belonged to a proscribed organisation would be illegal. Military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya was reacting to
Number of India-born cabbies to overtake Australia-born
Melbourne: India-born taxi drivers will soon outnumber Australian cabbies, making it the first time the number of workers from a foreign country in a major occupation will exceed their Australia-born counterparts. India is set to emerge next yea
Tamil poet Jeyapalan arrested in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Norwegian Tamil poet and actor V I S Jeyapalan has been arrested in Sri Lanka for violating visa regulations. Jaffna-born Jeyapalan,79, was arrested on Friday at Mankulam in the country's north, police spokesman Ajith Rohana said. Rohana sai
Indian-origin man sued over decade's rent arrears
Hong Kong: An Indian-origin man, who claimed squatter's right on his landlord's flat in Hong Kong, where he had lived all his life, now faces a lawsuit from his owner who claimed more than a decade's rent arrears. Jagpal Singh, who won a lottery of 4
Australia jails Indian-origin man for 18 years
Sydney: A court in Australia on Thursday sentenced an Indian-origin man to 18 years in jail for sexually abusing disabled women in his care. Victoria County Court judge Felicity Hampel said Vinod Johnny Kumar, 31, had shamelessly preyed on the
Indian-origin doc in Aus walks free, gets suspended sentence
Melbourne: Indian-origin surgeon Jayant Patel, accused of manslaughter of several patients in Australia, walked free on Thursday after a court handed down a two-year suspended prison sentence to him for lying to get a job in a public hospital, ending
Maldives president-elect proposes pay cut
Male: Hours after initial results showed that Abdulla Yameen had won on Saturday's second round of presidential election, the candidate of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) said he would propose a pay cut due to the current plight of the
Maldives Presidential polls: Yameen springs a surprise, beats Nasheed
Male: Progressive Party of Maldives’ candidate Abdulla Yameen on Saturday defeated former premier Mohammed Nasheed to win presidential run-off polls in the Indian Ocean archipelago country. Earlier in the day, voting had culminated peacef
