CDRIAs co-chairs of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)’s Governing Council and Executive Committee from 2022 to 2024, India and the United States have collaborated to establish disaster-resilient infrastructure around the world in partnership with CDRI’s growing membership. On April 23, 2024, the United States transitioned the co-chairship toRead More →
A married couple in the UK – Aarti Dhir and Kavaljitsinh Raijada, have been convicted of exporting more than half a tonne of cocaine to Australia, after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation found they were behind a front company that had sent the drugs by plane under a coverRead More →
On 2 September 2023, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with a swine-origin influenza A(H1N1) variant (v) virus in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. This is the first human infection caused by influenza A(H1N1)vRead More →
A Khalistan referendum event in Canada, scheduled for September 10 at Tamanawis Secondary School in Surrey town of British Columbia Canada, has been cancelled after images of weapons on the poster were brought to the school authorities’ notice by the residents concerned. BT understands the school authorities asked the organizersRead More →
In a rare moment now captured in history, the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, attend a ‘Ram Katha’ (sermon ceremony) on 15 August, by the one and only Murari Bapu in Cambridge said that his Hindu faith guides him in every aspect of his life and gives him the courageRead More →
This is a story every NRI litigant man or woman, husband or wife must read. They (fighting Indian couples living abroad, especially with young children) can no longer dodge and fudge the Indian judiciary; they have to take all the orders being made in relation to their affairs in IndiaRead More →
In what now has become a routine and does not surprise anyone, another Indian American has grabbed one of the top most jobs in the world. This is surprised no one. The number two man of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Neal Mohan has taken over from her as the CEORead More →
Rupinder Kaur and her family have accused two soldiers of racially abusing them at Windsor Castle in January 2022. Rapinder, 36, and her turban-wearing husband along with their two-year-old child visited the castle (it is open to public to visit as a monument) when according to the family, they were subjectedRead More →
It is not only Australia that is behind in processing student visas and grappling to clear the monument of backlog in that area, Canada is also facing similar problems. As many Western countries continue to struggle to get back to pre-COVID normal, hundreds of thousands of Indian international students inRead More →
A visiting 70-year-old Nirmal Singh was brutally attacked in an unprovoked attack in New York. He was left with a bloodied face and clothes in an incident being investigated as a possible hate crime, according to officials of the New York City Department. The Consulate General of India in NewRead More →