Asian Origin

Brazil football team in flight scare

Indo Asian News Service | Wednesday October 3, 2012

Brazil's national football team received a scare on the eve of its international friendly against Argentina when a violent storm forced its Resistencia-bound flight to deviate 300km from its original route.

'Stalwart' NRI businessman dies in UK mishap

Press Trust of India | Thursday July 12, 2012

An 85-year-old Indian origin businessman described as a 'stalwart' for his work since arriving in the UK in the early 1970s from Uganda, has died in a road accident in Leicester. Kantilal Shah died on Wednesday when he was hit by a lorry and a car as...

Euro 2012 will not be tainted by racism: Officials

Associated Press | Friday June 1, 2012

Ukrainian officials are denying that football fans of African and Asian origin will be the targets of violence by racist hooligans at the European Championship, and a top tournament organizer says stewards - and not police - will be the most visib...

Indian journalist elected as councillor in UK

Press Trust of India | Saturday May 5, 2012

Philip Abraham, an Indian journalist from Kerala, has been elected as a Councillor in the UK, becoming the first person of Asian origin to be elected to Loughton Town Council.

Asian woman, kids beaten up in Britain

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday March 15, 2012

In what is being termed as a racial attack, a woman of Asian origin was beaten up and her three daughters ill-treated by three people who tried to steal a packet of crisps from her shop in Britain.

Market Cues: Asian markets slide on Greece bailout delay

Thursday February 16, 2012

Traders were concerned about euro zone officials delaying the second Greek bailout until April 2012 elections in Greece.

Indian man's jaw broken with tequila bottle in hate crime

NDTV Correspondent | Thursday January 12, 2012

Indians and other South Asians in California are appealing for help in the case of a man of Indian origin who was attacked nearly two months ago in an apparent hate crime.

Market cues: Subsidies to cost more, weak Asian markets and more

Thursday December 8, 2011

India’s subsidy bill on fuel, fertiliser and food is set to surge by 40 per cent than originally estimated in the budget. This could hurt the country’s finances. Asian markets were weak on Thursday morning as global investors looked for a resolut...

Can Indian-origin grocer make history at Cambridge?

Press Trust of India | Thursday October 13, 2011

Over eight centuries of tradition will be swept aside this weekend if an Indian origin grocer in Cambridge is elected to be the first non-white, first Muslim and first Asian chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Jackman is all praise for new Wolverine film

Indo Asian News Service | Saturday October 8, 2011

Hugh Jackman believes The Wolverine movie will be a simpler story than 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

MP Keith Vaz hails no NRI kids arrested for UK riots

Press Trust of India | Sunday August 14, 2011

Several Indian-origin people were among those attacked during the riots in London and elsewhere, but it is a matter of satisfaction for the community that so far none of the over 1,000 rioters arrested are of Asian origin.

I'm trying to mount an international film: Gul Panag

Indo Asian News Service | Wednesday November 24, 2010

Gul Panag is planning to mount an international film with Britain-based Italian origin director Ovidio Salazar in which she will also be acting.

Priyanka Chopra to play Indira Gandhi in biopic?

Indo Asian News Service | Friday August 20, 2010

Indian origin US filmmaker Krishna Shah is now considering casting Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra in the lead role in a biopic on Indira Gandhi

Did superbug really originate in India?

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday August 14, 2010

Even though it has been named after New Delhi, the question that is doing the rounds for long is, did the superbug really originate in India? The claims made in the study don't stand up to scrutiny. Also, the one of the authors of the Lancet report, Karthikeyan Kumaraswamy has distanced himself from...

Indian-origin grandmother is Trinidad and Tobago's first woman PM

Indo Asian News Service | Wednesday May 26, 2010

Kamla Persad-Bissessar, whose forefather came here from India as an indentured labourer, has been elected the first woman prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago after the political alliance led by her emerged victorious and ended the ruling party's 43 years in power.Persad-Bissessar's People's Partne...