Auckland, March 11 – A 60-year-old woman who helped police nab burglars at her home in New Zealand said that she was furious like a mother angry at her child on seeing the thieves, a media report said.
Lesley Buckleigh said her first reaction upon finding two strange men at her home in her Waimauku was [...]
Toronto, March 10 – With immigration and higher birth rates among non-whites fast changing Canada’s demography, non-whites will account for almost a third of the country’s population by 2031, according to figures released Tuesday. Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis will become the biggest non-white group, accounting for 28 percent of the minorities.
The population from the three [...]
Sydney, March 10 – Dulmatin, who is alleged to have made the bombs that killed 202 people in Bali nightclubs in 2002, has been killed in a police anti-terrorism raid near Jakarta, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono confirmed Wednesday.
Yudhoyono made the announcement at a lunch in his honour at Parliament House in Canberra while on [...]
Wellington, March 10 – A 17-year-old New Zealand youth was sent to prison Wednesday for 15-and-a-half years for murdering a taxi driver who was a refugee from Afghanistan.
Shannon David Boyes-Warren, was 16 at the time he stabbed Abdulrahman Ikhtiari, 39 and a father of five, to death with a 13-centimetre knife, after an evening of [...]
Melbourne, March 7 – A 23-year-old man of Indian origin was charged Sunday with the death of Indian boy Gurshan Singh Channa, whose body was found far away from his home in this Australian city, a media report said.
Dhillon Gursewak has been charged with manslaughter due to criminal negligence, Australian news agency AAP reported.
Gursewak is [...]
Wellington, March 6 – The main ingredient in fake Viagra seized by New Zealand customs officers was guano – bat and bird droppings – a newspaper reported Saturday.
Other medicines intercepted contained whole insects, dust mites, hair and charcoal, Dallas Mildenhall, principal scientist at the state-owned GNS Science research organisation, told The Press, of Christchurch.
The paper [...]
Sydney, March 6 – Melbourne police Saturday urged the Indian community not to jump to conclusions over the death of a three-year-old Indian boy whose body was found in a Melbourne street six hours after he went missing from his home.
A spate of racist attacks in Australia’s second-biggest city is testing bilateral ties, with the [...]
Auckland, March 4, – A 22-year-old youth was Thursday held guilty of fatally shooting Indian store owner Navtej Singh in New Zealand.
The high court jury at Auckland found Anitelea Chan-Kee guilty of murder by firing the fatal shot on Navtej Singh.
Singh was shot dead during a robbery at his Manurewa liquor store June 7, [...]
Melbourne, March 4 – A national agency to oversee standards of higher education providers will help resolve Australia’s ’serious perception issues’ in India, an official of a universities’ group said Thursday, adding ‘we do have a problem in India, and it is our collective problem’.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard Wednesday announced the establishment of Tertiary [...]
Melbourne, March 3 – A group of Indian cricketers from academies in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh cancelled a tour to Australia due to safety concerns linked to attacks on Indians there, an official said.
Bruce Adams, the organiser of a tour of up-and-comers, said: ‘Cricket is the greatest tie we have between the two countries.’
The Age [...]
