‘Indians dogpiled him’: US techie behind ‘imagine the smell’ comments opens up amid major outrage

Nik Pash, the US techie who drew the wrath of social media after making an apparent comment on Indian techies that they are smelly, has been fired from his company, Cline. Cline founder and CEO Saoud Rizwan initially came to Nik’s defence, asserting that the comment was a generic comment on how jampacked hackathon rooms […]

‘Imagine the smell’: Why Cline AI head’s anti-India comment was neither a joke nor neutral | World News

When a single-line reply under a hackathon photo set off a storm on X, many outside the Indian and South Asian tech community initially dismissed the reaction as overblown. The phrase was short, vague and, to some, easily explained away as a crude joke about long hours and crowded rooms. But for many Indians in […]

US techie comes under fire for anti-Indian ‘imagine the smell’ comment; his boss says it’s OK

Nik Pash, the AI head of Cline, drew massive flak after he made an unsavory comment on a photo of apparently Indian coders. But his company head came to his rescue and explained that social media users took his comment out of context and that there was nothing racist about what Nick wrote. But the […]

Atlanta airport chaos: Hartsfield-Jackson ATC tower evacuated after fire alarm, gas smell; flights delayed

The air traffic control tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was temporarily evacuated Friday night after a fire alarm and the smell of gas were reported, the Federal Aviation Administration said. During the evacuation, controllers declared “ATC Zero,” halting all tower air traffic services and prompting a ground stop for incoming flights. Some planes in […]

‘Aircraft malfunction’: Chinese domestic flight makes emergency landing in Nanjing; passengers report burning smell

Representative Image (AI-generated) A Chinese domestic flight of Shandong Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing in Nanjing on Friday after multiple passengers reported a burning odour, according to the South China Morning Post.Flight SC4667 en route from Qingdao to Shanghai diverted back to Nanjing after it experienced an “aircraft malfunction”. The airline said […]