The decision by New Zealand’s largest Sikh temple to hail as martyrs the three men who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has upset some members of the Indian community in Auckland.
The temple in Manukau has hung on its walls portraits of Gandhi’s bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, who were killed in a gun battle after firing more than 30 bullets into her in 1984, and of co-conspirator Kehar Singh, who was sentenced to death, the Weekend Herald reported Saturday.
Entitled “Shaheed Bhai” – or martyr brother – they hang …

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Eurofighter Typhoon arrived in Bangalore on Thursday for a thorough evaluation by the Indian Air Force (IAF) as part of its medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) programme.
The field trials by six fighter jet makers for the Indian Air Force contract worth estimated 10 billion dollars should be complete by the end of 2010.
The Eurofighter is competing against Dassault’s Rafale, Saab’s JAS 39 Super Gripen IN, Boeing’s F/A-18E/F-IN Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin‘s F-16IL and Russia’s MiG-35.
“The aircrafts are on their way. They will start flight test from Monday at …

Indira Gandhi with her two sons Rajiv (L) and Sanjay in 1977 Photo: AFP

The biopic of the former prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1984 has a budget of £40 million and an international cast and crew.
Helen Mirren is in talks to reprise her role as Queen Elizabeth II for the two films which are due to start filming in April next year in India, UK, Russia and the US.
Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones are being lined up …

Kanak Gogoi, a 12th passed entrepreneur from Guwahati, has over a dozen innovations, from gravity-operated bicycle to a car which can run on air. But he regrets the government’s negligence towards scientific innovations, and refuses to commercialize any of his creations.
Gogoi said, “Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offered to build a fully furnished lab for me in Guwahati. The Chief Minister had granted me about 1.6 acres of land in 2007, but the file is still lying untouched at the local administrative office.”
Talking about slow moving files, another of Gogoi’s …

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It was a show that had the entire nation intensely and personally involved in the search for the ideal groom for controversy’s child, Rakhi Sawant. This winter, Imagine presents Season 2 of this hugely popular Swayamvar. Taking centrestage as the groom-in-waiting is Rahul Mahajan. Accustomed to living his life in full glare of the public, Rahul has decided to take the plunge and search for his bride on television through Swayamvar – Season 2!
The search for Rahul’s ideal life partner begins with a nationwide audition process that starts …

Washington: Four Indian Americans are among America’s super-rich with Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates still holding the top spot on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans with a fortune of $50 billion.
Warren Buffett, who’s worth $40 billion, comes in No.2 in the Forbes magazine’s annual ranking, followed by Oracle founder Lawrence Ellison ($27 billion) and members of the Walton family, owners of Walmart. The four Waltons have fortunes between $21.5 billion and $19 billion.
The number of list members losing value more than doubled to 314, compared with 126 in …

How many world leaders can command what Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy got, after his sudden death. His popularity can be gauged by this fact that his MP son Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy have to appeal to the people to be stoic and brave and keep calm , as otherwise as many as 122 people across Andhra Pradesh reportedly died of shock or committed suicide after the death of his father and their chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

Mr Reddy, 60, was an influential politician from the Congress party.
He was elected for a second term …

The number of Indian nurses wanting to work in Denmark has increased dramatically this summer – possibly in part to some shady recruiting companies in their homeland.
Between June and August, 4,507 Indian nurses applied for authorization to work in Denmark, up from only 30 last year.
The Association of Danish Regions, which administrates the nation’s hospitals, said it welcomed the news that so many had applied, but added it was unlikely that all applicants would be successful.
‘We are always happy to take on well-educated labor if the authorization is approved. But …

The Indian American community celebrated India’s 62nd Independence Day on Aug 9th Sunday with a parade along a 1-mile stretch of Oak Tree Road that travels through Edison and the Iselin section of Woodbridge. Bollywood actress, model and TV presenter, Mandira Bedi, was grand marshal this year.
Thousands of Indian Americans participated in the Parade and so were multiple colors seen, while grand finale was given by Grand Marshal with dance and drama shown by beautiful dressed Indian American kids, in a cultural program on the grounds of St. Cecilia’s …

BOLLYWOOD producers may join tourists, students and consumers ready to snub Australia unless more is done to stop escalating violence against Indians.
And the boycott may cost the nation billions of dollars as the fallout from attacks continues.
Yesterday, the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, a Mumbai-based film industry union, called on Hindi filmmakers to “avoid kangaroo country” until the crisis was sorted out.

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Meanwhile, a street cricket match involving Indian students and …

WOODLAND – Rich Salazar fears that his wife will never come home.
That’s because three weeks ago, immigration officers took her into custody because she let her green card expire a few years back.
He said a pair of pro bono attorneys is working to fight deportation. So far, it’s working. Reshma Kaur was supposed to be deported to Fiji last Thursday.
But also disturbing to Salazar is the thought of his wife being behind bars with people who are accused of committing crimes. His wife never has, and her only mistake is …

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Sex sting case headed to trial

The case against a Drexel University graduate student from India who allegedly arranged to have sex with an undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old girl on the Internet has been scheduled for trial, Bensalem police said.
Arun Kurikote-Anthony, 24, of Philadelphia, waived his right to a preliminary hearing in a Bensalem district court Monday, police said.
Kurikote-Anthony started instant messaging an undercover cop in Bensalem’s special victims unit in August, police said. He allegedly engaged in a series of sexual conversations with the “juvenile” for …

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Obama opposes bringing nurses from overseas
rediff.com Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:43 PM PST
America like most of the Western countries is faced with acute shortage of nurses and in recent years it has allowed medical personnel from India, China and Philippines to immigrate to work in hospitals. Instead, Obama argued that the best possible approach to meet this shortfall is to train people inside the country.

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Non-Resident Indians (or NRIs) are treated as a special category of investors, given their Indian antecedents and their growing importance as a significant source of foreign capital in India.
The government including regulators like the Reserve Bank of India and Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) have been formulating and regulating investments by NRIs in Indian securities. It is therefore imperative for NRIs to understand the rules that would have bearing on their investment-making process.
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Sandeep Shanbhag, NRI expert, takes you through the applicability of gift tax as per the Indian Income Tax Act. I own a property in Mumbai. …
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