Indians Abroad

US authorities imposed sanctions Wednesday on an Indian man and his parents for their roles in an alleged global smuggling network for heroin, opioids and other drugs.

A 50-year-old man from Telangana, who was working as a manager at a departmental store in Florida, was shot dead at the store on Tuesday evening.

Hundreds of Indian-Americans gathered in various US cities to mourn the killing of over 40 CRPF soldiers in one of the worst terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

An Indian-American couple was found dead in their home in an apparent murder-suicide at an affluent suburb in the US state of Texas, police said.

An Indian salesman has been accused of sexually harassing a 15-year-old girl at a mall in Dubai.

An Indian-origin student who hanged herself on the grounds of her school in London two years ago died as a consequence of a depressive illness, an inquest into her death concluded this week.

A 30-year-old Indian American man died after getting run over by a trailer truck when he allegedly tried to crawl under the vehicle trying to take a short cut.

Three Indian-Americans are among six people convicted for their role in a two-year multi-million dollar money-laundering scheme, the US Justice Department has said.

An 18-year-old girl in the US has made a short film 'SINGH' based on a true story of an Indian-American Sikh philanthropist whose campaign forced the authorities in the US to change their policy towards turban of the Sikh community.

An Indian-origin robber who dressed up in a burqa to steal from a jewellery store while threatening a shop worker with a knife in the city of Leicester has been jailed for over four years.

Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump's nominee to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, apologized Monday for her controversial writings from college about date-rape victims, which had come under scrutiny from at least one GOP senator.

US Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has directly confronted critics who questioned her black heritage, her record of incarcerating minorities as a prosecutor and her decision to marry a white man.

A Pakistani national was sentenced to seven years in jail by a Dubai court for stabbing his Indian roommate to death in 2018 over an argument on leaving the lights on, a media report said.

A 97-year-old Indian-origin man in the UAE has got his driving licence renewed for the next four years. Tehemten Homi Dhunjiboy Mehta, born in 1922, could become the first centenarian to be driving on Dubai roads in three years. His licence is valid until October 2023, the Gulf News reported.

In a landmark decision, Abu Dhabi has included Hindi as the third official language used in its courts, alongside Arabic and English, as part of a move designed to improve access to justice.