Ujjal Dosanjh wants Canada to keep ex-KGB spy

TORONTO - Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian health minister and top Indian-Canadian leader, has urged the government to allow a former KGB spy to stay on in Canada.

‘Little India’ mosque in Malaysia a symbol of tolerance

KUALA LUMPUR - The sultan of Selangor, Sharafuddin Idris Shah, has opened Masjid India Muslim, a renovated mosque patronized by ethnic Indians that has become a symbol of tolerance.

Sikh youth attacked in Texas

WASHINGTON - A Sikh graduate student, working as a part-time pizza delivery person, was thrown into a swimming pool and brutally assaulted in West Texas, according to the Sikh Coalition, a community advocacy group.

Indian jailed in Spain for terror plot, family claims innocence

LONDON/MUMBAI - An Indian father of six has been convicted in Spain along with 10 Pakistanis for planning terrorist attacks in Barcelona, in a case his family says resembles that of an Indian doctor who was arrested and then released by Australian authorities two years ago.

Indian among 11 jailed in Spain for terror offences

LONDON - An Indian-born father-of-six has been convicted in Spain along with 10 Pakistanis for planning terrorist attacks in Barcelona’s underground train system last year.

Indian among 11 jailed in Spain for terror offences

LONDON - An Indian-born father-of-six has been convicted in Spain along with 10 Pakistanis for planning terrorist attacks in Barcelona’s underground train system last year.

Indian man appears in London court for wife’s gruesome murder

LONDON - An Indian man has appeared in a London magistrate’s court charged with the murder of his estranged wife, who was left dying on the streets with her hand chopped off.

Indo-Canadian couple held for importing ‘gutka’

TORONTO - Canadian custom officials have seized an illegal consignment of ‘gutka’ (chewing tobacco) from an Indian shopkeeper in the city of Winnipeg.

Indian husband of woman with chopped hand to appear in court

LONDON - The estranged Indian husband of a woman found dying with a severed hand in a London street is to appear in court Monday after being charged with her murder.

Sultan breaks protocol, helps Malaysian Indian award recipient

KUALA LUMPUR - Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah of Selangor broke protocol to steady 84-year-old Malaysian Indian Sundraledchimy Maheswaran as she walked back to her seat after being conferred a title akin to Ladyship.

Husband of mutilated Indian-origin woman charged with murder

LONDON - The estranged husband of an Indian-origin woman found lying with a severed hand in a London street has been charged with her murder.

US Army accepts a second Sikh with turban and beard intact

WASHINGTON - The US Army has agreed to accept a second Sikh, Captain Tejdeep Singh Rattan, with his Sikh identity intact after an eight month long campaign by a Sikh advocacy group.

Malaysian Indian boy pulls Mercedes car

KUALA LUMPUR - A six-year-old Malaysian Indian is set to enter the country’s book of records after pulling a 1.67-tonne Mercedes Benz for 120 metres with just a simple harness tied around his waist.

Indian barbers in Malaysia told to shut shop

KUALA LUMPUR - An estimated 2,000 Indian barbers in Malaysia face a crisis. The government has decided that foreigners are not required to ply their trade in this sector.

Indian Americans in news for wrong reasons

WASHINGTON - Usually hitting headlines with their achievements in this country where they number over 2.5 million, at least four Indian Americans this week made news for crimes - ranging from armed robbery to sending hate mail to president George Bush to running healthcare fraud schemes.

Indian American jailed for 21 years for armed bank robbery

WASHINGTON - An Indian American has been sentenced to 255 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for an armed bank robbery and shooting a bank teller in the hand with a shotgun in 2008.

Indian student jailed for sending hate mail to Bush

WASHINGTON - A US court has sentenced a former Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) student to 57 months in prison for allegedly making threats against former president George W Bush.

Asian agony aunt brutally murdered in Scotland

LONDON - A popular agony aunt at a South Asian radio station in Scotland has been found brutally murdered in her flat, police said.

Indian’s murder triggers violence in Nepal town

KATHMANDU - Enraged transporters went on rampage Friday in Nepal’s biggest industrial town Birgunj, bordering India, vandalising vehicles and calling an indefinite strike after an Indian transport employee was gunned down by an unidentified group.

Road rage: Indian taxi driver stabbed in Australia

MELBOURNE - An Indian student working as a taxi driver was viciously stabbed and left bleeding in this Australian city in a possible road rage incident, police said Wednesday.

Indian students hit as two Australian colleges close

MELBOURNE - Scores of Indian students in Australia have been exposed to an uncertain future as two more colleges here have been shut down by a state regulator, The Age reported Tuesday.

4 Indians held in Nepal for Dalit girl’s murder

KATHMANDU - Four Indians are among six people arrested by the Nepal police for the suspected rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl from the Dalit community, a group that is among the most disadvantaged in Nepal.

Indian student in Canada jailed for street racing death

TORONTO - A 23-year-old Indian student in Canada has been jailed for 42 months for causing a death in street racing here two years ago.

Obama’s India-born adviser wins award

WASHINGTON - India-born Eboo Patel, a member of President Barack Obama’s faith advisory council, has become the first Muslim to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville.

Gangster who ‘killed for a living’ jailed

VANCOUVER - Buttar, known here as one of the most notorious of Indo-Canadian gangsters who boasted that he “killed for a living,” was sentenced Thursday for an assault on a stranger.

Mauritius president stresses India’s way

LUCKNOW - Mauritius President Anerood Jugnauth, in Lucknow on a five-day personal visit, Thursday stressed the island nation’s links with India and said they hoped to emulate its progress.

Indian brothers killed by glacier ignored safety warnings

WELLINGTON - Two Indian brothers crushed to death in January by a collapsing New Zealand glacier had defied warnings to stay clear because they were “on a mission” to touch the ice, an inquest was told Thursday.

Kabir to inspire hearts in Nepal

KATHMANDU - He was thought to have been born a Muslim and yet his songs are part of the Guru Granth sahib, the sacred text of Sikhs. A weaver by profession, yet he became one of the driving forces of the Bhakti movement in India that advocated love and tolerance.

Australian government bars information on Haneef

MELBOURNE - Australia has refused to divulge some parts of a “potentially explosive diplomatic” cable from its high commission in New Delhi about India-born doctor Muhammad Haneef, who was mistakenly detained on terror charges, a media report said.

Indians among foreign sex workers held in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR - Forty-nine Indian women were among thousands of foreign sex workers arrested in Malaysia this year for engaging in prostitution, says a report released Sunday that speaks of growing demand for prostitutes in this Southeast Asian nation.