Indians Abroad

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the Indian diaspora at an event titled 'Bharat Ki Baat, Sabke Saath'.The mega Q&A session lasted for a little over three hours. The event was broadcast live from the iconic Central Hall Westminster in London. The diaspora event, billed as the centrepiece of the 'Living Bridge' theme of the India-UK bilateral visit, involved Prime Minister Modi addressing questions which have already been received via social media.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj condoled the deaths of four members of an Indian family whose car had crashed into a swollen river in the US.

An Indian-origin investment adviser has been charged by US federal authorities for orchestrating a fraudulent million dollar investment scheme over several years.

The body of a 12-year-old boy, the last member of an Indian family that disappeared during a road trip in US, has been recovered, ending a 11-day search operation for the Thottapilly family, from Santa Clarita.

"You stole our idea" - the words echoed at a distance but caught his attention as he was busy drawing doodles on a note pad. He was physically there, but seemed pensive, elsewhere. His thoughts were back at his makeshift office at Harvard, where a tiny team working out of his dorm room in Kirkland House was busy writing endless pages of code. A code that set up a company worth tens of billions of dollars today - one that keeps us all hooked on to our phones - Facebook.

Investigators have found and identified the bodies of three family members who vanished while on a road trip from Oregon to California.

An Indian woman is among the 20 civic leaders selected for a prestigious fellowship from former US president Barack Obama's foundation. Preethi Herman, Global Executive Director of global social change technology platform Change.org, was selected from a pool of over 20,000 people from 191 countries. This is the first edition of the Obama Foundation Fellowship. The Obama Foundation announced the names of the inaugural class of Obama Fellows on Monday.

Bhupendra Kumar Modi, a Singapore-based NRI is planning to implement projects worth $2 billion in India, focusing on green initiatives such as electric vehicles (EVs) and healthcare centre.

One of the UK's worst road accidents that killed eight Indians last year has prompted calls from a road charity today to block a legal loophole which keeps employers in the dark about dangerous drivers.

Rescuers in the US have found the body of a woman while searching for a missing Indian family of four who are feared drowned in a California river.

Two NRI brothers were arrested at separate airports in Delhi and Chandigarh after their return from Italy, for allegedly duping a resident of their village in Punjab of Rs 8 lakh promising him to land a job abroad, a police official said.

An inter-agency search and rescue team in California today recovered some personal items and numerous parts of a vehicle from a swollen river in which a missing Indian family was travelling last week.

Five members of an Indian-origin family, including three children, have been killed in South Africa when their home was allegedly petrol-bombed by an unidentified arsonist, police said.

An Indian-American entrepreneur was among six people killed when a small plane crashed on a golf course in a suburb of Phoenix in Arizona shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, authorities said today.

An American man has been indicted for killing an 18-year-old Indian-origin student in November last year when he dragged her with his truck and ran over her while fleeing the scene of a minor crash.