Nris News

While deciding an over adoption dispute between an Indian couple and an OCI (Overseas Citizens of India) couple, Bombay high court ruled that Indian parents should be given preference in child adoption over NRIs, OCIs and foreign nationals. "If Indian parents decline to accept the child in adoption, only then the child may be shown to foreign parents, court added.

In an out-of-court settlement, an Indian-American Sikh, Gurpreet Singh Kherha, who was denied a job for keeping a beard by a car dealership in New Jersey 5-year ago, will receive $50,000 as compensation. Kherha had filed a discrimination claim against the dealership in 2008 and a lawsuit was filed in New Jersey State Court in February 2010.

Police have rescued three "highly traumatized" women from a house in south London where they were allegedly held as slaves for more than 30 years. Officers arrested two people as part of an ongoing investigation. Police said they were contacted in October by the Freedom charity, which works to protect the human rights of those at risk of modern slavery.

Indian student, Manrajwinder Singh (20), has been placed in an induced coma on suffering serious injuries after he was brutally attacked with stick and robbed by a gang in Melbourne, Australia. According to police, the man was sitting near the footpath with two other friends, when a gang of eight men of African appearance and one fair-skinned woman assaulted them.