The companies also seized the passports of the migrant workers in Singapore. 400 Indian and Bangladeshi workers in Singapore were left in a lurch when the director, who did not pay them wages for months, went untraceable. The Singaporean businessman was identified as Indian-origin Ramu Palani Velu who was brought back to Singapore to face…
Indian man in the UK finds out his car did not have an AC. An Indian man living in the UK explained how unprepared the country was to handle the heatwave and also explained why 33 degrees in the UK feels different than 45 degrees in New Delhi. Sharma also said he recently discovered that…
An Indian-origin man was injured after a shooting in the Cidade Nova area of Odivelas, Portugal. This led to a police investigation and a wave of unverified claims circulating on social media.The victim has been identified as Kishore Gujarati. He was shot in Odivelas, a city in the Lisbon metropolitan region, and was taken for…
Dr Rakesh Gupta and Dr Vinita Gupta made a generous donation to the medical school of Methodist University, North Carolina. Dr Rakesh Gupra and Dr Vinita Gupta, an Indian-origin doctor couple and philanthropists, donated $500,000 to the Methodist University Cape Fear Valley Health School of Medicine. The university said that $100,000 out of the entire…
In the world of theoretical physics, some ideas solve a problem. Others reshape an entire field. Jainendra K. Jain’s theory of composite fermions belongs firmly in the second category.Born in rural Rajasthan and now the Erwin W. Müller Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, Jain has spent much of his career tackling questions that…
19-year-old Gaurav Chopra kills father, mother, grandmother in a shooting rage in Texas. An Indian-origin businessman, Sweeta Ram, was killed along with his wife and his wife’s mother in an unexplained shooting rage by their 19-year-old son, Gaurav Chopra, in Alton, Texas. As Gaurav faces justice, the community in Alton and Palmview is grieving over…
Sukhada Fadnavis with her parents and then Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau at graduation in 2007. Sukhada Fadnavis, an Indian-origin mathematician, has decided to start a fellowship at her alma mater Caltech (California Institute of Technology), in the name of her parents — Shubhangi and Sharad Fadnavis Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship will support undergraduate…
An NRI’s joy after getting mangoes and other essentials in 9 minutes in his apartment in India triggered a major debate. A social media user started a major debate after he praised the quick e-commerce of India and said no one developed country has this luxury of ‘want it and will have it now’ that…
New Zealand’s Sarpreet Singh (10) battles for the ball (AP Photo/Andre Penner) NEW DELHI: New Zealand midfielder Sarpreet Singh created history by becoming the first player of Indian origin to start a FIFA World Cup 2026 match. Coach Darren Bazeley kept faith in him until he was substituted in the 90th minute. New Zealand will…
To begin with, this means that international students and other visa holders covered by the new policy will have to seek periodical visa extensions and undergo biometrics The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has cleared a ‘final’ regulation sent to it earlier by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This regulation will replace the…
