In yet another attack on an Indian in Melbourne, a taxi driver from the community was injured when a drunk Australian star footballer allegedly assaulted him after an altercation. Essendon football player Michael Hurley was arrested for kicking and punching an Indian cabbie outside a fast-food outlet on Hoddle Street. The police arrested Hurley at the scene. The soccer player was later taken to Fitzroy police station and questioned about the incident.
The Indian Team continued to snub the media for the fourth day on the trot after reaching South Africa for the ongoing Champions Trophy.
The three-year-old Indian toddler, whose body was found near Melbourne days ago, may have been hurt in an accident before being put in a car boot and dumped by a part-time taxi driver, who has been arrested and charged over the death, a media report said on Monday.Parents of Gurshan Singh Channa have been told by the police that their son may have been hurt by an accident before being put in a car boot and dumped near Melbourne Airport.
Two eye witnesses in the 26/11 terror attacks case testified before the court on Monday, saying they saw a powerful car bomb exploding at Mazgaon in central Mumbai, killing three persons. The taxi driver and two occupants, Zarina and Rima, died in the blast while 19 others including one of the witnesses Abdul Salim Shaikh were injured, they told the court.
The vicious way in which an Indian taxi driver was murdered in New Zealand's Auckland city would shock even criminals, a senior police official said on Tuesday, as 40 officers stepped up their hunt for the elusive killer.Hiren Mohini, 39, was killed early on Sunday in Auckland, one of the largest cities in New Zealand. Mohini's taxi collided with a tree in Mount Eden at approximately 1.20 am after he was allegedly stabbed by a passenger.
After attacking and racially abusing an Indian taxi driver, an Australian man tried to break his own finger to avoid being interrogated by the police, a Geelong court has heard. The Victoria police told the Geelong Magistrate's Court how Madden tried to break his own finger and took a large bite from his hand to avoid being interviewed by the police.Melis said the taxi driver was 'clearly terrified and horrified' after being punched, threatened and racially abused.
Thailand on Thursday said over 10 people were involved in carefully plotting the deadly attack at the Brahma temple Bangkok while ruling out involvement of global terror groups, even as it sought Interpol help in tracking down a foreign man suspected of planting explosives.
Two Delhi-based women were allegedly gang raped and assaulted by five men, who posed as officers of the anti-narcotic cell of police, at a flat in Anjuna beach village in North Goa, police said on Wednesday.
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Protesting against the stabbing of an Indian student who was working as a taxi driver, dozens of cabbies on Wednesday took off their shirts and blocked a busy intersection in Melbourne, disrupting vehicular movement. Agitating cabbies, who want the government to take swift action, have also come up with several demands, including compensation for the cabbie and severe punishment for the offender.The Indian, who was lying injured for over two hours, was found at 6 am.
In the wake of recent attacks on Indian taxi drivers in Australia, officials from the two sides have agreed to establish a framework for continued dialogue on issues pertaining to the safety and security of the cabbies.
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Two taxi drivers were on Monday awarded the death sentence by a Delhi court for killing Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs, after gangraping and robbing her, in 2004.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 each on the two convicts who were held guilty of gangrape, robbery, destruction of evidence and common intention. The court had convicted the two accused on August 2.The court convicted Prasad, 28, and Kumar, in his early 30's, for the various offences.
The squads, to be called Atma Raksha Dal, would comprise 20 members each and protect interests of the poor people like hawkers and taxi drivers, who are normally target of MNS attacks, MPCC spokesperson Sanjay Nirupam told PTI.
Part-time Indian taxi drivers in Melbourne have claimed that they are frequently assaulted and cheated but they did not report the incidents because they had no confidence in the police.
Parish Charles was remanded to custody on Wednesday on seven charges by the Melbourne Magistrates Court over the stabbing of Jalvinder Singh, 23, who continues to be in "critical condition" and is in "induced coma". Charles' lawyer Rob Melasecca told the court his client had contracted HIV 20 years ago and had recently begun taking new medication. He said the accused had no memory of Tuesday morning's events.
A 23-year-old Indian student, working as a taxi driver, was brutally stabbed and left bleeding on the roadside in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Mumbai International Airport Ltd, the consortium of GVK and South African Airports, which won the project through an international tender, must question every planner, architect, designer, HR manager and traffic controller: Why isn't it working?
A drunk Vazquez was thrown out of a football game and put into a cab driven by Singh. While Singh was driving down, Vazquez punched him, bit him on the scalp and called him an 'Iraqi terrorist'. Singh, who pulled to the side of the freeway, told police that he had been afraid for his life and that of others on the road. Singh said, through a Punjabi interpreter, that he and other members of the Sikh community wanted to offer forgiveness to Vazquez.
Patel General Stores' business model and that of 11 million other stores like them in India are going to be even more reliant on fleet-footed young men dropping out of school in rural areas.
An American man, who attacked a Sikh taxi driver and called him a terrorist, is facing two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges. Luis Arturo Vazquez, 21, pleaded guilty this week to second-degree assault and malicious harassment for the November attack, which left Sukhvir Singh, 48, with a concussion, cuts, bite marks on his scalp and other injuries. Vazquez had been released on a US$ 25,000 bail after the attack.
Terming north-Indians as the life-line of Mumbai, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday said that anti-people forces like the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the Shiv Sena were trying to divide the nation."Maharashtra has 57 per cent of north Indians who are toiling for the progress of the state and nation. MNS and Bal Thackeray would face a severe repercussion of their drive, to separate people, on the basis of region or language," said Paswan.
A local court on Wednesday deferred till Monday the hearing of bail application filed by corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who is accused of mowing down two persons while driving under the influence of alcohol.
A 23-year-old Indian taxi driver was verbally abused and attacked by a passenger in Melbourne, the latest in a series of attacks targeting cabbies from South Asian countries. Lakhvir Singh who picked up a passenger late night on the weekend was attacked by the commuter when he got out of the cab to close the door left open by the man.
Priyadarshini is a new government scheme that comprises women taxi drivers and guides thorough with foreign languages to drive and show them around.
Four persons, including a woman, who were held in Surat on Friday on suspicion of being terror suspects wanted by the Mumbai police, were released on Tuesday after it was verified that they were not the same whose sketches were released last week.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday trained her guns on the Congress, saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will become more powerful as the grand old party is not serious about politics, and alleged that the country is suffering because that party does not take decisions.
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A Pakistani taxi driver in Canada has been charged with the murder of his teenage daughter allegedly for her refusal to wear a veil and her wish to live life like other Canadian girls.
We must resist the temptation to look at the absolute numbers being vaccinated, and focus instead on the percentage of the population vaccinated, he said in his letter.
In a sprawling slum in Tulsiwadi near Mumbai Central station lived a family of six has been decimated by the Mumbai terror attacks.
Although police initially gave permission for Rajpal Mehat's funeral yesterday to proceed, they later said they were probing to see if it violated the Cremation Act, which restricts burning of human remains to crematoriums.
The search operation was launched in Heff village in the Zainapora area, an army official said.
The 51-year-old peer, the son of the 11th Duke of Marlborough, is out on bail pending further probe.
Over the last six months, Mumbaites have forgotten 32,970 mobile phones, 349 laptops and 349 USB (Universal Serial Bus) sticks/thumb drives at the back of licensed taxi cabs - and these are just the ones that have been reported as lost.
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