Reuters Ukrainian officials said Moscow had launched a fresh attack on Kyiv Russia says five people have been killed in a Ukrainian strike in the western Kursk region. Ukrainian officials reported earlier that Moscow had launched a fresh missile attack on Kyiv, damaging a building hosting several embassies. In Russia, the acting governor of the…
A 28-year-old Indian-origin man, Visnu Suriamurthi, was sentenced to six weeks in jail and fined SGD 2,000 in Singapore on Friday.Vishnu was sentenced after pleading guilty to voluntarily causing hurt to a rival gang member and engaging in illegal gambling. The case stems from a gang brawl on August 20, 2023, outside the Concorde hotel…
Krish Raval, a prominent London-based professional, was nominated on Friday by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a life peerage in the House of Lords. Raval, who chairs the Labour Party’s diaspora group, Labour Indians, is set to join the Labour benches in the Upper House, pending approval by King Charles III.The nomination, one of…
Starting January 1, 2025, the US Embassy in India will implement significant changes to reduce visa appointment wait times, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) introduces sweeping reforms to the H-1B visa program. These initiatives are aimed at simplifying the application process and accelerating approvals, especially for Indian tech professionals.Key changes to visa appointment…
Daniel Arce-Lopez/BBC Rio gangsters mix religion and crime as they take over territory When police in Rio de Janeiro seize blocks of cocaine and bundles of marijuana they may well find them branded with a religious symbol – the Star of David. This is not a reference to the Jewish faith, but to the belief…
Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s top official for freeing Americans held overseas, traveled to Damascus, Syria, on Friday for a high-risk mission: making the first known face-to-face contact with the caretaker government and asking for help finding missing American journalist Austin Tice. Tice was kidnapped in Syria 12 years ago during the civil war and…
Two people – including a young child – have been killed and 68 injured at Magdeburg Christmas market in Germany after a driver ploughed into pedestrians, according to local media. The suspect has been confirmed as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian man who arrived in Germany in 2006. He is said to have been working as…
Flickr/East-West Center Gulab Watumull’s (left) father Jhamandas began the family business with one store in Honolulu in 1915 In 1915, 29-year-old Indian entrepreneur Jhamandas Watumull arrived in Hawaii’s Honolulu island to set up a retail shop of his import business with his partner Dharamdas. The two registered Watumull & Dharamdas as a business on Honolulu’s…
Getty Images Hideko Hakamata, 91, fought half her life to free her brother – the world’s longest serving death row inmate When a court declared Iwao Hakamata innocent in September, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate seemed unable to comprehend, much less savour the moment. “I told him he was acquitted, and he was silent,”…
A woman has died and a man is seriously injured after a single-vehicle crash on the A9 in Inverness. The smash happened at about 01:40 on the southbound carriageway near Inshes. Emergency services attended and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The 35-year-old man was taken to hospital for treatment. Police Scotland said…
