Uber bans right wing US journalist for bias against Muslim drivers, will it do same in India? Uber has banned a US journalist with right wing leanings after she tweeted that she doesn’t take the cabs driven by Muslim drivers. Laura Loomer, who calls herself an investigative journalist and has a verified Twitter account, was…
ICICI Bank today said the diaspora will be able to remit money home by dictating commands to handset major Apple‘s virtual voice assistant Siri. An NRI customer would be able to instantly initiate a remittance to her existing payees back home with a voice command to Siri, on her iPhone or iPad, the bank said…
NEW YORK – A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen in what authorities said was an act of terrorism. The 29-year-old suspect was shot in the abdomen by…
Pharma Billionaire Arrested On Charges of Bribing Doctors to Prescribe Opioid Painkillers The same day President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency, the federal government said it arrested a wealthy pharmaceutical company executive on charges of bribing doctors to needlessly prescribe his firm’s opioid painkiller. The Department of Justice arrested…
Website for Muslim men to find second wife sparks outrage in UK; campaigners demand ban on the site A polygamy website for Muslim men has sparked outrage in the United Kingdom after hundreds of men subscribed it to find second wives. The website, secondwife.com with more than 100,000 users, has been slammed for “treating women…
The world’s wealthiest individuals are on a roll with billionaires in Asia leading the pack. Billionaire wealth increased 17 percent to $6 trillion in 2016, after a decline the previous year, UBS Group AG and PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a report issued Thursday. Led by China, the number of the region’s billionaires surpassed the U.S. for…
The Hyderabad police registered a case on Monday against an NRI, after he reportedly divorced his wife through an advertisement. The Hussainialam police said that the accused, identified as Mohammed Manaziruddin, a resident of London, married a 24-year-old woman from Hyderabad in September 2015, Deccan Chronicle reported. “Manaziruddin promised to take me to London, but he never…
Jahnavi Parikh was two when her father Piyush Parikh, an IT professional, moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1999. Jahnavi began school in the US and, later when her father moved back to India between 2004 and 2007, he enrolled her in a Mumbai school. Post 2007, she was once again studying in the US. Two…
The central adoption body CARA is planning to set up a portal to help prospective parents from outside India track the status of their applications instead of relying solely on their country’s authorised agency. The move will help non-resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) as well as foreign nationals who apply for inter-country…
Akshay Ruparelia,19, has become one of Britain’s youngest millionaires after his online estate agency business got valued at £12 million in just over a year London: An Indian-origin teenager has become one of Britain’s youngest millionaires after his online estate agency business got valued at £12 million in just over a year. Akshay Ruparelia, at…
