President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday embarks on a three-nation tour of Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire and Namibia that is part of India's outreach to Africa to consolidate ties with the continent.


President Pranab embarks on visit to Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire, Namibia


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An Indian restaurant in Britain whose owner was jailed for six years after being convicted for the death of a customer with a nut allergy has apologised to the dead man's family.


Indian restaurant says sorry for death of customer with peanut allergy


An Indian poetry festival is being organized in association with the prestigious Inter American University (UIA) in Buenos Aires on June 11 along with the Buenos Aires Poetry Festival.


Buenos Aires readying for Indian poetry festival


India and Qatar on Sunday signed seven agreements, including on investment and tourism promotion, as the two sides discussed ways to take bilateral ties beyond the current normal trading relationship.


India, Qatar sign 7 agreements; want ties ties beyond trading (Roundup)


The foot-tapping Bhangra genre of Punjabi music has become a significant part of the music industry in Britain, says Indian DJ Surinder Rattan, based in Manchester.


'Bhangra has become integral part of British music industry'


Makindu town, on Kenya's Nairobi-Mombassa Highway, is most known for its grand and immaculately-maintained gurdwara, which is a must stop for all travellers, not only Sikhs. Dating back to 1902 (though the present building only came up in 1926), the shrine is abiding testament to the over century-old and continuing - but less attention-receiving - Indian presence in Africa.


Namaste, Salaam and Jambo: The Indian experience in Africa (Column: Bookends) 


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday assured Indian workers in the Gulf countries all help from the Indian government while advising them to keep working hard though also taking care of their  health.


Modi assures all help to Indian workers in Gulf


Colleagues and a former school teacher of Indian-American Mainak Sarkar have expressed shock and sadness over news of the researcher fatally shooting his wife and a University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) professor before turning the gun on himself.


Colleagues, former teacher express shock over UCLA Indian-American shooter


Shocked at the shooting incident in the prestigious University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), some Indian researchers in the US have said they were "discomfited" to learn Indian doctoral student Mainak Sarkar was identified as the killer of a professor and his own wife.


US-based Indian researchers shocked, discomfited at UCLA shooting


Indian-American researcher Mainak Sarkar, who allegedly killed his wife and a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) before turning the gun on himself, was a very brilliant student, but reserved, said his school teacher.


UCLA shooter Mainak was brilliant, reserved in school


Indian-American Mainak Sarkar had killed his wife in Minnesota before driving over 3,000 km to the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) where he shot dead a professor and then turned the gun on himself. Both the victims were on his "kill list", officials said.


Indian gunman shot dead wife before killing UCLA professor


A disgruntled Mainak Sarkar, Indian doctoral student who had been working on his thesis for 10 years, has been identified as the killer of his professor at the University of California-Los Angeles on Thursday.


Struggling Indian PhD student shoots professor, self in US


Prime Minister Narendra Modi's fourth visit to the US next week is seen here as consolidating and celebrating the India-US relationship that has undergone a transformation since 2000 under three presidents.


Modi's US visit: Consolidating & celebrating a relationship


Microsoft's focus on India is to empower every citizen and organisation so that they can perform better than their potential and achieve more for themselves and the country, the US giant's chief executive Satya Nadella said here on Monday.


Microsoft seeks to empower every Indian: Satya Nadella


Twenty-four years after he established a company to sell computers and train IT professionals in Ghana, Indian author and businessman Gurdip Hari is spending $1.5 million over the next two years to dramatically change the hunt for talented children.


Indian businessman transforms talent-hunt in Ghana


Be it delicacies from Kashmir or the northeast, Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna says regional Indian cuisine is being increasingly lapped up in the US. The Indian chef, based in New York, believes that the main reason is that most lovers of Indian cuisine are looking for something beyond the globally-renowned Punjabi dishes.


Indian regional cuisines becoming popular in America: Chef Vikas Khanna


Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived here on Sunday on a two-day visit to Iran, said that Indians living abroad have the capability to assimilate with everyone.


Indians assimilate with everybody, says Modi in Iran (Roundup)


The Japanese find it "difficult" to operate in "jugaad-oriented India" (the culture of improvisation) but have found a financial route solution to this, says Indian-origin author Sanjeev Sinha, a long-time resident of the Pacific island nation where he is a director in the country arm of a prominent global consultancy.


Japanese believe in India's strategic importance: Author Sanjeev Sinha (IANS Interview)


The body of a woman from Hyderabad who died in Saudi Arabia earlier this month due to alleged torture by her employer was Friday brought home.


Body of maid allegedly tortured by Saudi employer brought to Hyderabad


The trial in the Indo-Canadian love triangle which led to the murder of a woman in Ottawa in January 2014 is set to begin.


Indo-Canadian love triangle murder trial begins in Ottawa


For Freida Pinto, diversity is not about being "black or brown" or isn't just confined to what one sees on camera but is what goes behind it. The US-based Indian actress, who found fame with the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire", says unless the debate on diversity extends beyond skin colour, it is "pointless and redundant".

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