Missing Indian businessman's body found in AustraliaOctober 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The body of Indian businessman Pardeep Kumar, who went missing two weeks back, has been found in Australia's Victoria state. Police are probing his business connections as they suspect he was murdered.
Two injured in Pak train mishapSeptember 10th, 2009 KARACHI - Two people were injured and 28 bogies were overturned when two goods train collided with each other near Kotri Railway Station on Thursday. According to the Dawn, a freight train coming from Karachi hit another train in the Bhalori area near the station.
China gives 225 railway carriages to MyanmarAugust 31st, 2009 YANGON - China Monday announced the handing over of 225 railway carriages to Myanmar as part of a deal agreed by the two countries in 2008. The carriages include 20 passenger and 200 freight coaches, and five engines.
Krishna visits Melbourne's Railway station where Indian students were attackedAugust 9th, 2009 MELBOURNE - External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Sunday visited Sunshine train station in Melbourne, where several Indian students were targeted by mobs a couple of months ago. Krishna was briefed by a senior police officer about the extra security measurements taken at the station.
Railway firm slammed for denying permission to rebuild Malay Indian Congress schoolJuly 13th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) president S. Samy Vellu has hit out at the railway firm Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd for denying the party permission to rebuild a 75-year-old Tamil school in Perak.
Leningrad station to be renamed after Russia's last TsarJuly 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Eighteen years after St Petersburg shed its Soviet-era name of Leningrad, the Leningrad railway station in Moscow is to be renamed. According to The Scotsman, the Russian state railway company said yesterday that the station would be called Nikolayev Station in honor of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas I, who initiated its 19th-century construction.
Pakistani Police foil plot to blow up trainJuly 2nd, 2009 QUETTA - The Pakistani Police Thursday foiled a plan to blow up the Quetta Express by terrorists, a media report said. Explosives were placed on a railway track in the Saryab area of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, the Online news agency said citing police sources.
Racist Oz radio presenter tells bashed Indian students to go homeJuly 2nd, 2009 SYDNEY - A presenter for a New South Wales community radio station has been reprimanded for several racist remarks, which included one statement where she urged attacked Indian students to go back home to study. Terrie-Anne Verney, a presenter and sales representative for Griffith FM radio station 2MIA, was reprimanded after it was revealed that she was the administrator of several racist and anti-immigration groups on famous social networking website Facebook, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Three killed in China passenger train collisionJune 29th, 2009 CHANGSHA - At least three people were killed and 60 injured as two passenger trains collided in central China's Hunan province Monday morning. The accident took place at 2.34 a.m.
Student from Hyderabad new target of racial attacks in AustraliaJune 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Racial attack on Indian students in Australia continued, with latest victim being M A Khan, studying at the Victoria Institute of Technology (VIT). This was the 15th attack on Indian students in Australia in less than one month.
Attacks on students 'clearly racist': Victoria police chiefJune 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Victoria's police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland has admitted that some of the attacks on Indian students were "clearly racist in motivation". Announcing a crackdown on crime at trouble spot train stations, Overland said it was clear Indian and international students had been targeted.
Melbourne Police to crackdown on race attacks, as Oz and Victoria PMs'call for calmJune 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Melbourne police will saturate western suburbs train stations to combat robberies targeting Indian students, even as Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Victoria Premier John Brumby issued an appeal for community calm. Victoria's Chief Police Commissioner Simon Overland said police would target Sunshine, St Albans and Thomastown train stations.
Another attack on Indian student in AustraliaJune 8th, 2009 SYDNEY - A 23-year-old Indian student was found unconscious and bleeding after being attacked here in Australia, making him the eleventh target in the past month in a wave of alleged racial attacks, a media report said Monday. The Age newspaper reported Kamal Jit was attacked while walking home from St.
Indian student attacked for the second time in MelbourneJune 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Adding to the series of ongoing 'racist' attacks, a 23-year-old Indian student was beaten up for the second time in a fortnight by a group of youths in Melbourne. The latest attack makes Kamaljit the 11th person of Indian community to have suffered assault in last one month in Australia.
Another Indian student stabbed in Australia pleaded with attackersMay 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An Indian student, who was robbed and stabbed in this Australian city, had pleaded with his attackers who just laughed at him, a media report said. Baljinder Singh had left a railway station Monday when two men carrying weapons approached him and demanded money.
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