An Indian‑origin professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa stirred row after posting racist remarks about South Africans. Professor Srila Roy, head of the sociology department, described South Africans as having “little ambition, complacent, and poor work ethic” in a message on social media platform X that was later deleted.The comments provoked…
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a 29-year-old man in connection with a deadly home invasion in Brampton that left one person dead last year.Peel Regional Police say Indian-origin Manpreet Singh, who has no fixed address, is wanted for first-degree murder and attempted murder with a firearm following a shooting on August 19, 2025….
A US federal court has reportedly ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acted unlawfully when it cancelled the visa status of an Indian-origin student over a traffic ticket that had already been dismissed. The case centres on Akshar Patel, an F-1 student whose legal status was terminated after ICE flagged a minor, years-old speeding…
Avtaar Singh (File photo) A 57-year-old Sikh temple volunteer, Avtaar Singh was killed in California after being abducted earlier this month, authorities said. He was found dead days after he was reported missing.In a startling twist, officials have now confirmed that Singh was not the intended target of the kidnapping that led to his death.San…
Two brothers from Haryana, India were arrested in 2024 for stabbing another Indian student to death in Australia. The trial in the case began this week as the court was told that one of the accused was so enraged when his housemate left his party to play cards with his friends, that he stabbed a…
Jay Bhattacharya now sits at the apex of American public health. As director of the National Institutes of Health, he already oversees the country’s biomedical research agenda. Now, as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he temporarily controls the nation’s disease surveillance and response machinery as well. The unusual consolidation of…
An Indian-origin restaurateur in London has announced that he will close his establishment after 16 years, citing mounting challenges including rising costs, online harassment, repeated disturbances he attributes to Pakistani groups, and what he described as inadequate support from the Metropolitan Police. Harman Singh Kapoor, owner of Rangrez in Hammersmith, said on X that the…
Indian-origin Giridharan Sivaraman, who serves as the race discrimination commissioner of the Albanese government in Australia, said the country should not celebrate January 26 as Australia Day as it is the day when colonization began displacing the First People from their own country. Australia is a stolen land and there is nothing to celebrate on…
Ludhiana: After an elderly NRI woman was found dead in the bathroom of a house in Khanna, the police have rounded up many suspects in the case even as it has ruled out robbery angle in the matter.On Sunday morning, 81-year-old Jagpal Kaur was found murdered at her residence in the Nai Abadi area of…
27-year-old Jashanpreet Singh has pleaded guilty to unlawfully dealing firearms and unlawfully possessing a machine gun, the US Department of Justice said. Singh was arrested last year at the San Francisco International Airport as he was trying to flee to India. He was charged with unlawful dealing of firearms, unlawful possession of a machine gun,…
