It has started to sound like routine when an Indian is appointed to head an American, global company. After decades of such accomplishments by Indians in the US, comes the latest feather in India’s cap – Parag Agrawal being appointed as the new CEO of Twitter. Parag was Twitter’s ChiefRead More →
An Indian man in the UK, who stabbed his wife multiple times before driving to a nearby street where he left her body on the pavement has been jailed after pleading guilty to murder. Kashish Aggarwal, 28, attacked his wife Geetika Goyal at their home in Wintersdale Road, Leicester, onRead More →
As COP 26 draws near, a number of Australian politicians have endorsed the new Plant Based Treaty which calls on world leaders to negotiate and implement a global agreement about a transition to a plant based economy. Emma Hurst, MLC who is issuing a notice of motion in the NSWRead More →
Who would have thought McDonald’s Restaurants would run out milk, and thus shakes? If this COVID pandemic and its new normal was not hitting home hard enough, the post-Brexit EU realities have hit Britain even harder. Under the new arrangement, the government implemented changes to the immigration rules and stoppedRead More →
Defying the US intelligence reports, the Taliban have swept into Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and wrested control from the government which collapsed after the embattled president left the country and its people to fend for themselves. Heavily armed Taliban fighters swamped the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace. AccordingRead More →
Paul A Gosar, a Congressman in the United States has foreign students (studying in the US) in his sights. Currently many of the international students studying in the US are eligible to stay on in the US after completing their studies under a program administered by the US Immigration andRead More →
British born American John McAfee, founder of McAfee Antivirus software, a fugitive at the time of his death was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona, Spain. The death is being labelled as suicide. McAfee was wanted in the US for multiple legal cases and was fighting his extradition toRead More →
A 20 year old Canadian driver ploughed a pickup truck into a Muslim family of five, killing four and seriously injuring the fifth in an attack in the Ontario city of London which has been described as “hate crime” by the Canadian police. Police later arrested the young driver, NathanielRead More →
An Indian American Taptejdeep Singh, 36-year-old engineer belonging to Gagrewal village, 50 km from Tarn Taran near Amritsar was one of the eight victims of a shooting incident at San Jose in the US state of California. Father of two young children, Taptejdeep valiantly died a hero’s death, not worryingRead More →
Having been found guilty and only weeks away from learning his sentence for the killing of George Floyd, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin has filed a petition seeking a new trial. He claims due to the overwhelming publicity surrounding the case, he has been deprived of due process andRead More →