Diaspora

AMRITSAR: Rishi Kapoor, a youth from Amritsar become the first Indian to join Vegas police.

LONDON: An Indian-origin man, Sundeep Ghuman who was murdered in a UK prison, died of head injuries, said Scotland Yard.

LONDON: Indian-origin MP Suella Braverman was sworn in as UK’s new Attorney General at the Royal Courts of Justice.

DUBAI: Two Indians have been jailed to two years each in Dubai for beating up a compatriot and stealing his belongings, including passport after he objected to being underpaid for his work, said a media report.

WASHINGTON: An Indian man was shot dead at a grocery store in California’s Los Angles in the US early Saturday, police said.

An Indian-American Google employee was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of murder of his wife by Hawaii Island Police, said Hawaii Police in a press release. 43-year old Sonam Saxena was arrested on the count of second-degree murder after his wife Smriti Saxena’s body was found along the beach’s shoreline. …

CHILLIWACK, BRITISH COLUMBIA: An Indian-origin physiotherapist of British Columbia, Canada, is charged with two counts of sexual assault for alleged offences from last summer, reports a local media.

DUBAI: An Indian-origin couple in the UAE has donated their late daughter’s kidney to a seven-year-old boy, who had been on dialysis for the last five years, said a media report on Friday.

MALAYSIA: Sikh Captain Manvikram Singh Gill, a pharmacist at Tuanku Mizan Armed Forces Hospital in Wangsa Maju (Malaysia) is honoured with the ‘Pharmacy Professional of The Year 2019’ award.

WASHINGTON: Around 7,720 Indian-origin people including 591 minors and 272 woman were arrested in 2019 for trying to illegally enter the US, according to official figures.