NRI news

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9/11

•  Richmond: Gurpreet Singh, Taxi driver shot, killed in Richmond by 55-year-old homeless man  
• Gurpreet's fiancee, Amandeep Kaur (22) shot herself
• Richmond: Another Sikh cab driver shot- Sikh taxi drivers are so upset over two shootings in four days 
• Richmond: Cabbies live in fear after killing, shooting
• Two NRIs (Indian American) shot dead in Detroit- Kanu Patel left his wife and seven children in their village of Paliyad in western India about a year ago
•  NRI, Saurabh Bhalerao, 24, a graduate student, mistook him for being Islamic , was beaten, stabbed.....
• Two Pakistani students were shot dead near Washington early Tuesday by unidentified gunmen
• $20,000 reward posted by Government agencies, a religious group and the Anti-Defamation League for information leading to an arrest in the Phoenix hate-crime shooting of a Sikh man, Avtar Sigh Chiera two months ago
•  Robbers get $5,000 from drugstore robbers then cornered a Sikh employee who was wearing a turban, pulled off the turban, and cut off part of the man's long hair   
• A Richmond man arrested last week under suspicion of killing a Sikh taxi driver was released

Discrimination Cases

• NRI university professor files caste discrimination suit against another NRI Promod Khargonekar, the former chairman of the department of electrical engineering and computer science, is a Brahmin, the highest in the caste hierarchy. 
•  NRI Local Sikh sues Roswell- Chana was fired from his airport maintenance job two days after Sep. 11
•  Judge rules former InfoSpace CEO made insider trades-The shareholder lawsuit asks that Jain pay $207 million plus interest in restitution to InfoSpace
  

NRI in poltics

• Rajesh "Roger" Chugh, a third ranking official in the New Jersey
    Chugh’s appointment makes him the third most powerful official
• The Bank Information Center (BIC) announces that Manish Bapna will become its new Executive Director