NEW YORK: An Indian candidate has been elected to a key UN committee in a cut throat competitive race.

GUWAHATI: In a list of “World’s Top Scientists” created by Stanford University of the USA, twenty two faculty members and researchers from IIT Guwahati have made it to the list.

Senior Deputy Editor and eminent author Uday Mahurkar has been appointed as Information Commissioner in Govt of India by His Excellency the President Shri Ramnath Kovind on the recommendation of the Narendra Modi Government. 

NEW ZEALAND: Priyanca Radhakrishnan, 41, became New Zealand's first-ever Indian-origin minister last week. Soon after that, an old video of her addressing the country's Parliament in Malayalam went viral on social media.

South African authorities have started deporting refugees and asylum seekers who protested for almost five months against xenophobia. These protestors mostly hailed from African countries and demanded to be resettled, but outside South Africa....

On Sunday 8th November, about 600 protestors had gathered in Piccadilly Gardens in Greater Manchester as the national lockdown rules came into force. Police have reportedly fined 24 people with £200 fines and 20 of these were handed to the Cumbrian...

On 3rd November Tuesday, it emerged that the Leicestershire Police was reportedly pushing for greater diversity in their police forces with the goal that one in every four of its staff members is from an ethnic minority background. Their announcement...

On Monday 9th November, a community supermarket in Birmingham which allows shoppers the opportunity to “pay-as-you-feel” reported a surge in the demand for essential supplies as Britain continued to battle a second national lockdown.

On Friday 6th November, a 33-year-old man was jailed for life for slitting the throat of a 10-year-old boy as part of a series of random attacks.