UAE Lottery Winners Revealed as Lucky Day Draw Creates Thousands of New Prize Holders Excitement swept across the UAE as the latest weekly UAE Lottery “Lucky Day” draw produced thousands of winners, even as the massive Dh30 million jackpot remained unclaimed. The results once again highlighted the growing popularity of the country’s regulated national lottery,…
A Germany-based Indian entrepreneur, Mayukh Panja, described online backlash against an Indian folk dancer performing against the backdrop of the Washington Monument in the United States as “straight up racism.“Panja responded to a post that expressed concern that the historic site was converted to a “Telugu Tiktok dance stage,” and pointed to what he described…
UAE residents turn to land corridors, ‘departure assistance’ to find way home as Iran and US–Israel war disrupts air travel The escalating conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel is increasingly reshaping daily life across the Middle East, with thousands of travellers and expatriates in the Gulf facing unprecedented travel disruptions. As airspace closures…
A tense confrontation broke out at Washington Square Park in Manhattan on Friday when a man attempting to tear down a poster of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a vigil was attacked by several people, prompting police intervention and multiple detentions.Video circulating online showed the man shouting “Take this down!” as he pulled…
New Department of Justice documents revealed that Tova Noel, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead and made a $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before Epstein’s August 10, 2019, jail-cell suicide.Noel was one of two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly arrested Estefany Rodriguez Flores, a reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet, in Nashville, Tennessee, this week.Rodriguez was arrested during a traffic stop on Wednesday, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Her lawyers called for her to be released immediately, arguing that ICE did not have a warrant for her…
During his reality TV days when he hosted The Apprentice, Donald Trump loved using the phrase: You are fired. It was his catchphrase, synonymous with other Trumpisms: gilded gold designs that look like they belong in the Ottoman Empire, membership of the WWE Hall of Fame, stream-of-consciousness speeches that hint at logorrhoea, taking credit for…
A US-based advocacy organisation has launched a new tracker to document a growing wave of “anti-Indian hate” incidents across the United States.The Indian American Advocacy Council (IAAC) has released a report and guide titled “Stop Indian Hate: Hate Incident Tracker & Community Action Guide”, which records verified incidents of online abuse, public harassment and discrimination…
An Indian national identified as Jashanpreet Singh has been arrested in San Diego by officers from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with authorities describing him as a “criminal alien”.The arrest was announced by the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) office in San Diego in a post on X. According to officials, Singh…
Planning I’tikaf in Qatar? New Ramadan Mosque retreat rules explained Authorities in Qatar have issued new guidelines for Muslims planning to observe the traditional Ramadan mosque retreat, known as I’tikaf. The rules aim to ensure that worshippers can devote themselves to prayer while maintaining order, hygiene and respect inside mosques during the spiritually significant final…