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A 28-year-old Indian-origin truck driver accused of causing a deadly crash in Florida failed his commercial driver’s licence (CDL) test ten times before obtaining it, US officials have revealed. The case of Harjinder Singh, who has been living illegally in the United States since 2018, has reignited a national debate over the issuing of CDLs…
An Indian-origin man has been sentenced in an elaborate immigration fraud in New Zealand. 59-year-old Umesh Patel, an Indian-origin Auckland man, plotted an elaborate immigration fraud scheme which was running for years, duping visa applicants. Immigration New Zealand (INZ) busted the scam and Patel pleaded guilty to 37 charges, including forgery and providing false or…
How an Indian-origin man turned ‘killer trucker’ in US He came to the United States in search of a better life. But 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh’s pursuit of the American dream ended this week after the Indian-origin truck driver, while intoxicated, caused a fiery crash in Southern California that killed at least three people. His best…
Jashanpreet Singh has been arrested for crashing truck in Ontario and killing 3. A 21-year-old Indian national, identified as Jashanpreet Singh, has been arrested in Southern California for causing a fiery crash that killed at least three people. He was driving an 18-wheeler truck under the influence.Police said Singh’s semi-truck plowed into slow-moving traffic on…
Bodhana Sivanandan (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Ten-year-old British chess prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan achieved a remarkable victory by defeating former World Champion Grandmaster Mariya Muzychuk at the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece on Sunday, becoming one of the youngest chess players to take down a former World Champion.Born in London in 2015 to parents…
MSNBC journalist corrects Andrew Cuomo’s mispronunciation of ‘Mamdani’ during live interview. Former New York Govornor and present mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo mispronounced his rival Zohran Mamdani‘s name and called him ‘Mandami’ on the MSNBC show when journalist Anand Giridharadas corrected him and reminded him that he must get the names right because he is looking…
Saikat Chakrabarti reacted to Colombia’s claim that US killed a Colombian fisherman who had no links to drugs. Colombia has accused the US of violating the South American country’s sovereignty and killing a Colombian fisherman after teh US military struck an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in September. Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro said Alejandro Carranza, a fisherman,…
Ashley Tellis (File photo) A prominent Indian-origin scholar, Ashley Tellis, who was arrested by the FBI in the United States over allegations of retaining classified documents and meeting with Chinese officials, is now denying the charges against him, his lawyers said on Wednesday, according to AFP.Ashley Tellis, 64, who held senior positions under former president…
The United States has detained a well-known Indian-origin scholar on charges of unlawfully retaining national defence information. According to the affidavit filed by US authorities, more than 1,000 pages of classified documents were found at Tellis’s home in Virginia after investigations.A federal court in Virginia ordered the arrest of Tellis, who has worked as a…
Ashley J. Tellis, 64, a distinguished Indian-origin US defense and foreign policy expert, has been arrested over charges of unlawfully retaining over a thousand pages of classified documents at his home. The US Justice Department has accused Tellis, who served on the National Security Council of former Republican President George W Bush, of printing out…
