New York, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian-American father of two, who had taken his family for an outing at a beach in California, died while rescuing his child from a riptide. Srinivasa Murthy Jonnalagadda, who…
London, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian-origin woman has been banned from teaching by the UK’s Department of Education for a minimum of two years for concealing charges of fraud against her from a school where…
New York, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mumbai-born psychiatrist and researcher Vikram Patel will be the next chair of the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, starting September 1. Patel, who succeeds Paul…
New York, June 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 70-year-old Indian-American motel manager has pleaded guilty to trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude or forced labour, according to the US Department of Justice. Shreesh Tiwari, an…
Toronto, June 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian-origin father and son have been arrested and charged in Canada for sexually assaulting and exploiting multiple teenage girls over the course of several months, police said. Gurpartap Singh Walia,…
London, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 64-year-old Indian-origin man has been jailed for three years in the UK after he fleeced potential property buyers out of nearly GBP 16,000 (over Rs 16 lakh), the police said….
New York, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Senators in California voted in favour of a bill that exempts Sikhs from wearing a safety helmet when riding a motorcycle. The Senate Bill 847, authored by Senator Brian Dahle…
New York, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kumar P. Barve, the first Indian-American elected to a state legislature in the US, has officially been sworn in as a member of the Maryland Public Service Commission. A resident…
By Yashwant Raj Washington, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that Indian democracy is a “global public good” and, in a message sought for the American public by an American journalist, he added…
Melbourne, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian-origin police officer Tanvir Brar, who was kicked out of a strip club in Australia for unprofessional conduct in 2019, has failed to get his job back, a media report said….
London, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian-origin woman lied and forged documents to secure a seat for her son in a top London school by pretending to live in an elderly couple’s home, a UK court…
Singapore, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian-origin man in Singapore admitted to attacking a police officer in 2020 and leaving him with a bloody face, a media report said. Nikhil M. Durgude, 25, pleaded guilty on…
By Arul Louis Dallas, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Keeping up the dominance of the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US by Indian-origin children, 14-year-old Dev Shah from Florida has won the competition by correctly…
Washington, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Dev Shah, a 14-year-old Indian-American teenager from Florida, has won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US, by correctly spelling the word “psammophile” — an organism that lives in…
New York, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 30-year-old Indian-origin man died after being trapped inside his vehicle, which hit a tree in Ohio’s Huron County, police said. Milan Hiteshbhai Patel was killed in a single-car crash,…
New York, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A district court in the US has ordered detention of an Indo-Canadian entrepreneur following indictment on charges of laundering 450 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at $24,020,699.83 at the time of the…
New York, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian-American Taral Patel, a former Biden-Harris presidential appointee, has announced his candidacy to serve as Fort Bend County Commissioner for Precinct 3 in Texas. Patel, a 29-year-old former chief of…
New York, June 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 17-year-old Indian-origin student in Missouri has won the prestigious Regeneron Young Scientist Awards of $50,000 for his research relating to the mpox virus. Saathvik Kannan of David H. Hickman…
By Meenakshi Iyer New Delhi, May 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Calls to remove a video circulating online of a Canadian Sikh woman whose gruesome killing was caught on camera, have been picking up steam with netizens urging…
Toronto, May 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) A man accused of killing an Indian student in 2022 in Canada’s British Columbia province will stand trial on the charge of second-degree murder, a media report said. Dante Ognibene-Hebbourn, 23,…