Four white Canadians were on Tuesday charged with a racial assault on a group of Indians at Langley on the outskirts of Vancouver. According to police, the six Indian-origin men were playing tennis at the weekend when the four suspects approached them and started shouting “racially based expletives.” The assailants, who included three young men and a woman, went on…
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14 dead, 57 Hurt in Blast Outside Luxury Hotel in Peshawar
The death toll from a suicide blast at a luxury hotel in Pakistan’s northwest Peshawar city has risen to 14, while 57 people were injured, a police official said Wednesday. Early reports suggest at least two men shot their way through a security barrier and rammed a pick-up truck packed with explosives into the five-star Pearl Continental hotel late Tuesday,…
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Australian PM Urges Calm, Warns off Student Vigilantes
Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for calm as Indian students led “vigilante” patrols on Wednesday after a second night of protests in the wake of attacks on foreign students in Sydney and Melbourne. Scores of Indian students took to the streets of western Sydney, leading to two police arrests, after attacks in both Sydney and Melbourne which have sparked diplomatic…
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India’s Parliament Elects First Woman Speaker
India’s lower house of parliament elected a woman as its speaker Wednesday, a first in the male-dominated chamber’s history. Meira Kumar is also a member of the “untouchable” Dalit class, the lowest rung in the centuries-old caste system in the country.The speaker conducts the proceedings of the house. She will preside over 543 elected members, of which 58 are women.Read
Meira Nominated for Post of LS Speaker
Five-term Lok Sabha MP Meira Kumar on Tuesday became the consensus candidate of the ruling UPA and the Opposition BJP for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker. Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee led a UPA delegation to submit Kumar’s nomination papers to Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Achary for the election to the Speaker’s post scheduled to…
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