A Singapore court has sentenced a 33-year-old Indian-origin man to 19 months in jail for molesting his friend’s minor sister more than a decade ago.Melvinder Singh Gurmit Singh was convicted on two counts of molestation. The offences took place when the victim was between seven and nine years old, while Singh was aged 19 to…
Trump aide Harmeet Dhillon posted on social media whether the women could repeat the dress they wore at the White House Correspondents’ dinner after a shooter was caught. Harmeet Dhillon, the Indian-origin aide of President Donald Trump, who was present at the White House dinner where a shooting took place targeting the administration officials, made…
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has apologised after allegedly calling an Indian-origin Radio New Zealand staff member a “Muslim terrorist” during a visit to the broadcaster’s Auckland officesa.The incident took place on Monday as Brown arrived at Radio New Zealand (RNZ) for an appearance on its Afternoons programme. According to RNZ, a…
Indian-origin restaurant owner in North Carolina arrested for attempt to murder wife. An Indian-origin restaurant owner in North Carolina is facing charged of attempt to murder his wife after a domestic violence incident got reported to the police as their daughter called the 911 when 49-year-old Mathivanan Pothiyappan started chasing his wife on the road….
Two Indian-origin women, mother and daughter, were subjected to a grisly stabbing attack inside their house in Burbank in which the 59-year-old mother, Arti Varma, an elementary school teacher died. Her daughter Meera Varma, a noted mental health activist, was grievously injured but was said to be stable after both the women were taken to…
For Indian tech and medical professionals, researchers and even global achievers eyeing to work in the US, the path is becoming increasingly uncertain. New data shows that even the most elite immigration routes, once seen as relatively stable, are now facing sharply higher rejection rates, signalling a broader tightening of legal migration pathways.The US has…
Indian man in the US on student visa convicted of a major scam targeting elderly people. 27-year-old Venkateswara Chagamreddy, an Indian man living in Texas on a student visa, has been convicted of defrauding a 79-year-old Vietnam Veteran in Delaware County. In August 2025, the elderly man called a phone number that he believed was…
The killer of Indian student Kartik Vasudev in Canada has been convicted. Richard Edwin, a Toronto man, has been found guilty of first-degree murder of two men in 2022. One of them was 21-year-old Indian student Kartik Vasudev. The other was 35-year-old Elijah Eleazar Mahepath. There was no connection among the three and the two…
Canada PM Mark Carney celebrates Sikh Heritage Month, joins community service at Ottawa gurdwara Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Gurdwara Sahib Ottawa on Saturday (local time), where he joined members of the Sikh community in community service as part of Sikh Heritage Month 2026 celebrations.Sharing details and a video of his visit on X,…
An 80-year British Sikh man is running the London Marathon for the first time on April 26, inspired by Fauja Singh who encouraged him to take up walking initially.Baldev Singh Bains is doing the marathon to raise money for the Fauja Singh Clubhouse, being built in Fauja’s memory in Redbridge, on the route Fauja used…
