Toronto, Feb 15 With 13 bullets pumped inside her body, the lone survivor of a shooting spree in Canada last year who watched her Sikh parents die in front of her, wants swift justice and says police didn’t do their duty well. Jagtar Singh Sidhu and Harbhajan Kaur, both in their 50s, were shot more…
New York, Feb 15 An Indian national hailing from Haryana has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his role in stealing $150,000 from an elderly woman in the US state of Montana. Sukhdev Vaid, 24, admitted targeting elderly Americans via an international computer-hacking scheme that resulted in more than $1.2 million…
New York, Feb 15 A 76-year-old Indian-origin motel owner has been shot dead in the US state of Alabama following a confrontation over room rental. Pravin Raojibhai Patel, the owner of the Hillcrest Motel in Sheffield, was gunned down last week after which police arrested 34-year-old William Jeremy Moore, Alabama-based news outlet al.com reported. Moore…
London, Feb 15 A mechanic who created and moderated sites dedicated to child sexual abuse on the dark web with an Indian-origin doctor and several others working for him, has been jailed for 16 years in the UK. Nathan Bake, 28, from Cheshire, was one of three UK-based moderators of a site called ‘The Annex’,…
Kathmandu, Feb 15 Nine people — including eight from India and another from Nepal — have been arrested on the charges of holding 11 Indian nationals hostage and extorting money on the pretext of sending them to the US via Mexico. The Indian nationals, who were held hostage for a month, were rescued on Wednesday…
Rawalpindi, Feb 15 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Qaiser revealed on Thursday that the party’s founding Chairman, Imran Khan, has picked senior leader Omar Ayub Khan as the candidate for Prime Minister, a media report said. Addressing the media outside the Adiala jail following his meeting with Imran Khan, former National Assembly Speaker Qaiser said…
London, Feb 15 The UK has slipped into recession just months ahead of a general election, official figures showed on Thursday, derailing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to generate economic growth, the media reported. The GDP fell 0.3 per cent in the final three months of 2023, following a 0.1 per cent contraction in the…
Doha, Feb 15 Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the Indian diaspora in Qatar and said that he is “grateful” to the community as he arrived in Doha after concluding a whirlwind two-day trip to the UAE. He arrived here late on Wednesday After June 2016, this is Modi’s second visit to the country, home to…
Prayagraj, Feb 15 A man has been convicted and sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment by a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj in a case related to the sexual harassment of a minor girl student here. The victim had shared her ordeal on social media in 2019 after attaining the age of 18 years,…
Lucknow, Feb 15 The Lucknow-based CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) will soon start growing flowers offered at much revered Puri’s Jagannath temple. As per a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two parties, Lucknow-based research institute will help the Odisha temple in growing special flowers such as lotus, Gandhraj and other aromatic plants needed…
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