Indian woman, Navya Nelakuditi, died after being severely injured in a road accident near Pittsburgh. A 23-year-old Indian woman, Navya Nelakuditi, died on April 9 while she was undergoing treatment after a car accident in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her aunt, Sirisha Nelakudutu, who is raising funds for her body to be sent to India, said Nelakuditi…
An Indian-origin former Metropolitan Police officer has admitted his role in a “crash for cash” insurance scam in the United Kingdom that involved staged road collisions and fraudulent compensation claims worth thousands of pounds.42-year-old Kuldip Singh pleaded guilty to multiple offences linked to a fraud network that deliberately arranged vehicle crashes to claim insurance payouts…
Indian-American space scientist Amit Kshatriya holds a senior leadership position at Nasa, an agency that has recently completed the Artemis II mission, a significant step in its renewed human lunar exploration programme.The Artemis II mission, a crewed lunar flyby, concluded with astronauts returning safely after a splashdown off the coast of San Diego, California at…
Two Indian-origin men have been charged in a phone scam and mail fraud in Georgia. Two Indian-origin men, Mihir Patel and Himanshubhai Barot, have been charged in a major mail fraud that took place in 2021 when the duo called people across the US, claiming they were from law enforcement or other organizations. They asked…
An Australian newspaper recently ran a headline that read: ‘Singh beats Smith’. It was about business ownership in Sydney, but it captured the steady shift in how the desi diaspora, now estimated at over 35 million people spread across more than 200 countries, has become a force. Last month, members from 25 countries gathered in…
Canada is set to undertake one of the biggest reforms to its economic immigration system since the launch of Express Entry in 2015, with a proposal to replace three major visa streams with a single, unified pathway.According to a brief announcement by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) the government is considering repealing the Federal…
Two Indian-origin men have been charged in a phone scam and mail fraud in Georgia. Two Indian-origin men, Mihir Patel and Himanshubhai Barot, have been charged in a major mail fraud that took place in 2021 when the duo called people across the US, claiming they were from law enforcement or other organizations. They asked…
Nigam Bhatt, an Indian man in the US on a work visa , has been arrested in connection to a gold scam. 25-year-old Nigan Bhatt, an Indian who is in the US on a work visa, was arrested for scamming an elderly in a gold scam that has spread its network across the country. Elderly…
A Reddit user said he got picked in the H-1B lottery but wants to go back to India. An NRI techie shared the honest feeling that even after getting picked in the recently concluded H-1B lottery, he was feeling a weird sense of sadness and confusion, and even thinking about going back to India, as…
23-year-old Indian man, Tushar Sharma, was arrested in New York State for a $200,000 scam where he called individuals and told them they would be arrested if they didn’t pay. Tushar Sharma, a 23-year-old Indian, was arrested earlier this month by the New York State Police after an investigation into a $200,000 fraud led the…
