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Indian Woman Missing From Ship Sailing To Singapore, Son’s SOS To Centre

The woman, Reetha Sahani, was travelling with her husband. (Representational)An Indian man has sought help from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Ministry of External Affairs to help find his mother, who is missing after she reportedly jumped from the Royal Caribbean Cruise yesterday when it sailed through the Singapore Strait.Apoorv Sahani, a Melbourne-based Indian businessman, in a Twitter post, claimed that the cruise company is "washing their hands off", and has asked the Indian government for help.1/2 My mother was travelling in Royal Carrribean cruise (spectrum of the seas) from Singapore. She has gone missing from the ship since this morning. Cruise staff are saying she jumped, but they have not shown us any footage and are washing their hands off @DrSJaishankar— Apoorv S...
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Indian-American Engineer Fired For Talking With Dying Relative In Hindi, Files Lawsuit

The engineer said he spoke to the relative on video call for two minutes.Washington: A 78-year-old Indian-American engineer was fired from his long-time job with a missile defence contractor in the US state of Alabama for speaking in Hindi with his dying relative in India over a video call, a media report quoted a lawsuit filed by him.Anil Varshney, a Senior Systems Engineer with Huntsville missile defence contractor Parsons Corporation, recently filed a federal lawsuit alleging systemic discriminatory actions that left him jobless in October last year.A white co-worker heard Varshney speaking in Hindi on a telephone call with his dying brother-in-law in India, AL.COM reported on Monday.Varshney on September 26, 2022 "received a video call from his elderly brother-in-law K.C. Gupta, [wh...
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British Sikh Elderly Man Pleads Guilty To Murder Of Wife With Wooden Bat

Tarsame Singh appeared at a UK Court where he admitted killing his wife Maya Devi. (Representational)London: A 79-year-old British Sikh man, who walked into a London police station earlier this year to inform officers that he had killed his wife, has pleaded guilty to murdering her with a hard wooden bat used in the English game of rounders.Tarsame Singh appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday where he admitted killing his wife Maya Devi, 77, at their home address in Hornchurch, east London. He will be sentenced at the same court on September 29."This is a tragic case and one which has left the couple's three children utterly distraught," said Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Mark Rogers, who led the investigation."No one should ever lose their mother in this way and ...
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Students, Including Indians, Suing UK Universities Over Covid Disruptions. Here’s Why

Students accuse UK universities of breaching the contract.Thousands of current and former students of University College London (UCL) are seeking compensation, claiming their tuition contracts were breached after teaching went online during Covid with restricted access to facilities. These include dozens of students from India who suffered disruption in studies and joined the mass lawsuit. The group has urged the London High Court to give the legal complaint its go ahead. According to news agency Reuters, these students have paid at least 9,250 pounds ($11,482) a year for studying at UCL.If successful, the students stand to win tens of thousands of pounds in compensation saying they were offered online course instead of what was promised - in-person teaching.Lawyers running the case aga...
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Indian Woman, 64, Goes Missing From Cruise Ship Sailing Out Of Singapore

The woman along with her husband was on a four-day cruise. (Representational)Singapore: A 64-year-old Indian woman on board a cruise ship has gone missing as the ship sailed through the Strait of Singapore from Penang, the northern island state of Peninsular Malaysia.The incident was reported on Monday with Reeta Sahani and her husband Jakesh Sahani on their way back to Singapore from Penang aboard the Spectrum of the Seas. Monday was also the last day of the couple's four-day cruise, reports said.Jakesh, 70, woke up to find his wife missing from their room, according to a report by The Straits Times on Tuesday.The retiree tried to locate his wife on the sprawling cruise ship but in vain. He later informed the ship's crew, who told him the ship's overboard detection systems had been ale...
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Indian-Origin Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Indians To US

The man was a resident of Brampton in Canada. (Representational)New York: A 40-year-old Indian-origin man, extradited from Canada to the United States, has pleaded guilty to smuggling Indians to the US between March 2020 to March 2021, officials here said.Simranjit Singh was taken into custody on June 28, 2022, in Ontario, and was extradited from Canada to the US on March 30, 2023, United States Attorney's Office Northern District of New York said in a press release."In pleading guilty, Singh admitted that from at least March of 2020 through March of 2021, he facilitated the smuggling of numerous Indian nationals from Canada into the United States, via Cornwall Island and the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation in the St Lawrence River region, for profit," the release said on Saturday.S...
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Indian-Origin Man Gets 9 Years In Jail For Attacking Neighbour In UK

The victim told police officers: "I can't believe this. He just kept hitting me." (Representational)London: An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to nine years in imprisonment by a UK court after it found him guilty of violently attacking one of his neighbours with a wooden pole.Rishi Casseeram, 35, left his victim with multiple serious facial fractures as well as substantial bruising to his back, according to the Bedfordshire Police which conducted the investigation. The attack took place in June last year when Casseeram was arrested at his flat in Luton, eastern England, and sentenced for the crime Luton Crown Court earlier this month."This was an extraordinarily violent attack that left behind a truly shocking crime scene," said Detective Sergeant Bill Haigh from Bedfordshire Polic...
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Indian Expat, Living In Dubai, To Get Rs 5.5 Lakh Per Month For 25 Years

He decided to buy the lottery ticket when he came across the ad while scrolling social mediaAn Indian expat Mohd Adil Khan, living in UAE, has won the first FAST5 Grand Prize. Now, he will be receiving  AED 25,000 (Rs 5.5 lakh approx) every month, for the next 25 years. The official statement revealed that Mohd Adil Khan, an architect from Lucknow, “never imagined” that his first purchase could make him the winner of the grand prize. With his big win, Mr Adil aims to buy a house for his family and also wishes to explore other investment opportunities. The statement added that he decided to buy the lottery ticket when he came across the ad while scrolling social media one day. Mr Adil, who went to Dubai from Saudi Arabia in 2018, said, “This was the first time I brought any raffle draw t...
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Joe Biden Urged To Resolve 195-Year US Green Card Backlog For Indians

The wait time or backlog for US Green Card applicants from India stands at 195 years.Washington: A group of US lawmakers has urged the Joe Biden and his administration to take executive action to make priority dates current for Green Card applicants from India to reduce the 195-year-long wait period and backlog which has left them in a constant state of limbo.Led by Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi and Larry Bucshon, the bipartisan group of 56 lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting the administration take executive action to provide relief to high-skilled employment-based visa holders.In their letter, the US lawmakers also appealed to the administration to mark all dates for filing of employ...
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Body Found In Canadian River Linked To Indian Family’s Death, Say Cops

Police believe the victims were attempting to cross into the US. (File)Toronto: Canadian authorities on Friday said they found a body this month in the St Lawrence River which belonged to a man connected to an investigation into the drowning of eight migrants, including members of an Indian family, in March when they were trying to enter the US from Canada illegally.The body has been identified as Casey Oakes, who disappeared in March after he was last seen operating a boat later found near the bodies of two migrant families. One of the families was from Romania and the other was from India.The Indian victims have been identified by their relatives in India as Pravin Chaudhary (50), Dakshaben Chaudhary (45), their daughter Vidhi (23), and son Met (20).Oakes was 30 when he disappeared on...