External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that Indian missions in Canada are working round the clock after the blast.
The British police have launched into the brutal attack suspected to be a hate crime.
Soon after a Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi committed suicide jumping off from a bridge in New York in September 2010, the long time gay activist William Dobbs, who has been featured in several publications including The New York Times wrote a letter to The Chronicle of Higher Learning. Rediff.com's Arthur J Pais talks to him
Two young men have been arrested in New York, and charged in connection with an alleged terror plot to "blow up synagogues and kill Jews" besides attacking the Empire State building.
An Indian-origin man and his English wife have been murdered in Birmingham, the British police said on Wednesday, weeks after an Indian student was killed in an apparent hate crime in Manchester.
There have been over 300 attacks against Christians and their churches and prayer halls, primarily in northern India, states Aakar Patel.
The last rites of Anuj Bidve, the student who was killed in Britain in an apparent case of hate-crime, were performed in Pune on Saturday evening. Scores of people including his relatives, friends and neighbours attended the funeral procession from Chandan Nagar to Yerawada on the outskirts of the city, after the body was brought from Manchester by his parents today. The Bidves lost their only son in an unprovoked attack by a 20-year-old British youth in Manchester.
Hailing from Pune, Bidve, 23, was a postgraduate student of Microelectronics at Lancaster University and was visiting friends in Manchester during the Christmas holidays with other Indian students when he was gunned down.
"This is definitely a hate crime," said Pradeep Singh Kaleka, eldest son of the Satwant Singh Kaleka, who died while trying to get hold of the shooter on Sunday morning at a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
The gunman who went on a killing spree inside a Gurudwara in Wisconsin was a "white man with a 9/11 tattoo" on his arm, according to eyewitnesses.
Any curious mind, the court observed, can access and download such content from the internet, which, by itself, is not a crime.
From 2014 to 2017, Gupta served as the assistant attorney general for civil rights under President Barack Obama, where she advanced criminal justice reform, prosecuted hate crimes, protected voting rights and fought against discrimination.
India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour.
India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour.
May 21 promises to be a crucial day for the Indian-American community as one of corporate America's most prominent India-born executives is scheduled to go on trial here while miles away a New Jersey court is to decide the fate of a Chennai native convicted of a hate crime.
The statue of Gandhi, which was donated by the Indian government to the city of Davis, was installed by the city council four years ago amidst protests from anti-Gandhi and anti-India organisations.
The number of bias-related incidents against Muslims in the United States of America increased in 2008, although hate crimes against the community recorded a fall, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said on Thursday in a report.
The terror group says lone wolf jihadists should attack white Americans and avoid minorities so that no one mistakes their terror assaults for hate crimes.
Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty in federal court to hate crime and firearm offenses arising out of the shooting.
In the letter dated July 23, the celebrities have said that "exemplary punishment" should be meted out "swiftly and surely" in such cases.
The middle-aged man, whose name has not been released by the police, was treated for a quarter-inch stab wound in the upper torso at Fresno Yosemite International Airport, and chose to continue the first leg of his flight to India, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
A troubled Sikh community shocked by the shooting of their two elderly members on Monday offered a reward of US $ 30,000 for any information leading to the culprits, as the local police said they suspected it to bea hate crime and have called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation to join the manhunt.
"Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms," Trump said in his address to the joint session of US Congress.
How a chilling 911 call from a bartender led to the arrest of Adam Purinton, the man who killed Srinivas Kuchibhotla and injured Alok Madasani and Ian Grillot.
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'We are careful not to walk the streets after dark. We are not safe because there are people here, who think Indians should not be in Australia,' The Daily Telegraph quoted Bharat Chauhan, an accounting student in Australia, as saying.
Dismissed RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, accused of killing his senior colleague and three passengers on a moving train, appears to have harboured "anger and grudge" towards a particular community and showed no remorse for the crime committed, the police said in its response to his bail.
Two men have entered guilty pleas to hate crime charges in the vicious attack on a Sikh taxi driver in Sacramento the United States late last year as the police and Federal Bureau of Investigation have launched a massive manhunt to nab the attackers of two other elderly members of the community.
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The women said they were physically and verbally assaulted by another woman who hurled anti-Islamic insults at them. They also claimed that the Chicago police were not taking the incident seriously.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation along with the US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Deep Rai by a partially-masked gunman, who shouted "go back to your own country".
A resolution calls the US Secretary of State to designate India as a country of particular concern for alleged violation of religious freedom.
Five people have been arrested in St Petersberg in Russia in connection with the murder of an Indian medical student, who was stabbed to death in 2006.
A Californian couple has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a United States court for their role in a hate crime against an Indian American in 2007. Joseph Silva, 56, and his wife Georgia Silva, 52, have been sentenced to 18 months jail-term and three years of supervised release after the US district court in Sacramento, California found them guilty of beating an American national of Indian origin in July 2007.
Indian-American Republican leader Nikky Haley has endorsed her former boss Donald Trump as the party's candidate for the presidential election, delivering the message of unity after their bitter rivalry during the presidential primary.
Members in the Lok Sabha on Thursday expressed grave concern over hate crimes against Indians in the United States, with opposition parties questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" on the matter and the government saying it was being "viewed seriously".
Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Joel Blumenfeld ordered Umair Ahmed, 19, to complete 180 hours of community service and write an essay about what he had learned since his attack on 16-year-old Harpal Vacher.
Adam Purinton, the shooter who is a navy veteran, later told a bartender in Clinton, Missouri, where he was hiding that he had killed two Middle Eastern persons.
US authorities have pressed hate crime charges against an American teenager accused of setting fire to the "patka" of a Sikh student.
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.
