Indian man Nikhil Gupta pleads guilty to plotting to kill Gurpatwant Pannun in the US. 54-year-old Nikhil Gupta, an Indian man, pleaded guilty to plotting to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Khalistani separatist leader and a US citizen. Gupta pleaded guilty to all three charges of murder for hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy […]
The TOI correspondent from Washington: A $29 million award to the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year old student from India who was killed in a road accident in Seattle on a cold night in January 2023, will not bring her back to life. But in a gracious gesture and empathetic language that accompanied the […]
Indian expat Rajan Lall hits the $1 million Dubai Duty Free jackpot at 79 / Image: @DubaiDutyFree For UAE-based businessman and Bollywood producer Rajan Lall, the number 79 will forever be synonymous with luck. Just six days after celebrating his 79th birthday on February 8, Lall received a life-changing phone call. He was announced as […]
31-year-old Sukhwinder Sidhu, an Indian-origin trucker in Ontario, pleaded guilty before the trial of the August 2023 crash is scheduled to begin this month. Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul was killed in the crash as Sidhu’s speeding truck crashed into the back of several vehicles, including Paul’s. It was a multiple-vehicle pileup caused by Sidhu, […]
An Indian restaurant in Frisco, Texas, has been repeatedly targeted by a group of people who call themselves the Texas Investigation Unit. The group claims that Bollywood Pizza House in Frisco only hires Indian students on F-1 visa which is mostly illegal. In support of their allegation, they impersonated anIndian caller named Ravi and called […]
37-year-old Indian man, Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar, was shot and killed in Canada outside a busy mall in Etobicoke in Toronto, sparking fear among shoppers and workers at the mall as the incident took place in broad daylight and it took place during a busy shopping afternoon on Sunday. The Toronto Police responded to the […]
37-year-old Indian man, Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar, was shot and killed in Canada outside a busy mall in Etobicoke in Toronto, sparking fear among shoppers and workers at the mall as the incident took place in broad daylight and it took place during a busy shopping afternoon on Sunday. The Toronto Police responded to the […]
A 27-year-old Indian man said he planned to return to India after failing to secure employment in the United States despite completing a Master’s degree and applying for jobs, according to a Reddit post titled “Did everything ‘right’ in the US, still failed, heading back to India”.In the post, he said he followed a conventional […]
Two Indian American men from Glastonbury were charged in federal court with using thousands of stolen identities to defraud FanDuel, a major US online sports betting company, and other online gambling platforms of roughly $3 million.A federal grand jury in New Haven returned a 45-count indictment on February 3 charging Amitoj Kapoor, 29, and Siddharth […]
Dubai’s Literary Crowd Was Spellbound as Shashi Tharoor Talked Words, Wit and Wisdom at Emirates Literature Festival 2026 Dubai’s vibrant literary scene was abuzz recently as Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, author and former diplomat, delivered a memorable session at the Emirates Literature Festival, one of the Middle East’s premier cultural events celebrating books, ideas and […]
