Rishi Kapoor, a real estate developer of Indian descent, has received a sentence of 11 years and four months in prison from a US federal court due to a real estate fraud case that involved nearly $89 million, equivalent to approximately ₹745 crore. Rishi Kapoor is sentenced to 11 years in US prison for a … Read more
Venkata Vasamsetty (middle) has been granted bail but her immigration case continues as DHS calls her a flight risk and claims she can leave the country. Venkata Vasamsetty, the Indian-origin grandmother who has been living in the US for decades with a Green Card and has a house in North Carolina, two US citizen daughters … Read more
A woman’s celebratory video of welcoming her parents to the US has gone viral. Videos of Indians using wheelchairs at international airports surface on social media from time to time. This time, a video of an Indian woman apparently welcoming her parents at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Texas went viral as the mother was seen … Read more
19-year-old Alli Renee Singh died after the car in which she was traveling plunged into ocean in Santa Cruz, California. A 19-year-old US Santa Cruz student, Alli Renee Singh, was killed when a car that she was not driving plunged off Santa Cruz’s iconic West Cliff Drive on August 13. The fatal crash took place … Read more
Teerth Shah and Advik Yadav recount their hiking experience during which they had to call 911. Four Indian-origin teenagers from New Jersey, Jainam Bhavsar, Purva Jayani, Tirth Shah and Advik Yadav, set out on an evening hike in New Hampshire, which proved to be costly for them. Though they were all safe and back home … Read more
Venkata Vasamsetty (middle) has been in the US for 30 years and has been a Green Card holder since 2013. Venkata Vasamsetty, who has lived in the US for 30 years and is a Green Card holder, has been detained by ICE in a bizarre case of immigration while her daughter Yashaswini Vasamsetty is an … Read more
Indian-origin strategist Gautam Rangarajan. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Indian-origin strategist and former BBC executive Gautam Rangarajan as an Expert Adviser on Structure and Process in a newly created role at 10 Downing Street.Rangarajan, who brings decades of experience in strategy, organisational transformation and media, is set to take up the position this … Read more
An Indian-origin mayor in the US has publicly criticized federal immigration enforcement operations in his city, declaring that he will “always support the immigrant community” and urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “go home.” Swarnjit Singh, Mayor of “City of Norwich” (Credits: Facebook/Mayor Singh “Swarnjit Singh”) Swarnjit Singh, the mayor of Norwich, Connecticut, made … Read more
