Samip ‘Sam’ Joshi, 32, created history of sorts when he was elected as mayor of Edison in New Jersey – the first Indian-American in the town of 100,000 population with 44% Asians. Joshi, who is a second generation Gujarati settled in the US,...
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Indian national arrested in Santa Fe child predator sting
- 25 Mar 2026
A 26-year-old Indian national, Nagaraju Balkam, was arrested earlier this month in a multi-day undercover operation targeting online child sexual predators, the Santa Fe Police confirmed.Balkam was one of four men taken into custody after detectives...
Communities step up to help stranded travellers
- 11 Mar 2026
Rising Iran-Israel tensions have led to widespread airspace closures across West Asia, disrupting flights and stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers.Major hubs like Dubai International and Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International have scaled back...
No wish for revenge, Nawaz tells supporters on return
- 25 Oct 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home on Saturday, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London and restarting his political journey ahead of the general elections with a huge rally at Minar-e-Pakistan...
Bilawal to attend SCO meet in Goa, India plays it down
- 26 Apr 2023
Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend SCO foreign ministers meet which India is hosting in Goa on May 5.The Indian administration didn't explicitly rule out a meeting between S Jaishankar and Bilawal, but it didn't seem...
Bangladesh’s Tarique Rahman sworn in after historic vote
- 18 Feb 2026
Tarique Rahman and his cabinet ministers took oath, becoming the first elected leaders since the deadly 2024 uprising.Rahman is set to be the first male prime minister in 35 years in Bangladesh, a country of 170 million, while new parliament...
Rising attacks on Hindus spark calls to review Yunus’ Nobel Prize
- 07 Jan 2026
Atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh have reportedly increased, triggering criticism of Muhammad Yunus and renewed questions over his Nobel Peace Prize, amid accusations that he has failed, as Chief Advisor of the interim government, to curb...
Indian national arrested in Santa Fe child predator sting
- 25 Mar 2026
A 26-year-old Indian national, Nagaraju Balkam, was arrested earlier this month in a multi-day undercover operation targeting online child sexual predators, the Santa Fe Police confirmed.Balkam was one of four men taken into custody after detectives...
US forces raid Venezuela, abducts Maduro
- 07 Jan 2026
US President Donald Trump has issued a series of blunt warnings to multiple countries in recent hours, signalling an increasingly confrontational stance across global regions. This follows a bold US military operation in Venezuela, which resulted...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Nepal PM Prachanda likely to visit India next month
- 22 Mar 2023
Kathmandu: Nepal’s PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is likely to travel to India on an official visit next month - his first foreign trip since assuming the office for the third time in December last year, a media report said.
Nepal ruling coalition bags 90 seats out of 165
- 07 Dec 2022
Kathmandu: The top leaders of Nepal’s five-party ruling coalition on Monday met at PM Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence to review the general elections and discuss the formation of a new government.
Three generations, three journeys
- 05 Sep 2022
Rakesh Patel, a 47-year-old commodity trader took a plunge to visit Greenland. Speaking to Asian Voice, he said, “Over a hundred years ago, our grandparents emigrated from India to Africa in search of a better life. In 1972, our parents had...
‘2024, MODI ONCE MORE’
- 04 May 2022
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the diaspora in Germany, on his three-nation Europe trip.
Kampala: Ugandan troops have crossed into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of a joint operation against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group that both neighbouring countries accuse of massacring civilians. The...
Naypyidaw: Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar who was ousted in a de facto coup this year, was convicted on two charges and handed a four-year sentence that was quickly cut in half - in proceedings widely criticised as a further...
Islamabad: The Taliban decreed they were banning forced marriage of women in Afghanistan, a move apparently meant to address criteria the international...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has named IIT Bombay and Stanford University alumnus Parag Agrawal as his successor. At 37 years old, Parag Agrawal is the youngest...
Dhaka: The UN General Assembly has adopted a historic resolution to graduate three nations, including Bangladesh and Nepal, from the least developed country (LDC) category to the developing country grouping, a major milestone demonstrating the...
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s highest court has upheld the death sentence of two Indian origin men convicted of conspiring to traffic at least 1.3 kg of cannabis in March 2016, according to a media report.
California: An Indian American business owner, Kishore Kumar Kavuru, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for making false statements in foreign worker visa applications, officials said. The sentence was handed down by United States District...
NEW DELHI: With withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan and its declining influence in the Middle East, China is increasing its military footprint in the oil-rich region. The latest satellite images stated that China is constructing a multistorey...
Kampala: The Ugandan government has lost its major airport to China for failing to repay a loan, the African media reported. The government failed to reverse...
