Indian man Nikhil Gupta pleads guilty to plotting to kill Gurpatwant Pannun in the US. 54-year-old Nikhil Gupta, an Indian man, pleaded guilty to plotting to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Khalistani separatist leader and a US citizen. Gupta pleaded guilty to all three charges of murder for hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy…
A Jet2 flight ( LS896) from Turkey’s Antalaya to Manchester, UK had to make an emergency landing in Belgium as two passengers started throwing punches at each other while other passengers screamed. Jet2 described their behaviour as “appalling” and said those two flyers would be banned for life.It all started over a passenger passing racist…
Extortion threats are prompting families in Peel Region to leave Canada as the police departments are still trying to get a better handle on these cases as they cross provincial and international borders, Toronto City News reported. Dharmjit, an Indian-origin man, who became the target of the extortion gang late last year, said the police…
(Photo credit- AP) The TOI correspondent from Washington: A $29 million award to the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year old student from India who was killed in a road accident in Seattle on a cold night in January 2023, will not bring her back to life. But in a gracious gesture and empathetic language…
A bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal alleged that department of home secretary has been gripped by “constant chaos” under Secretary Kristi Noem, painting a portrait of a department where headline-grabbing crackdowns, glossy photo-ops and internal power struggles collide behind closed doors. According to the paper’s sources, Noem has leaned heavily into high-visibility immigration…
Texas journalist Sara Gonzales who ‘exposed’ the H-1B ‘scam’ in Texas visiting H-1B employers in the state said the $100,000 fee is not going to act as a deterrent as the corporations have saved enough money by paying these employees lesser wages that they can easily spend the fee to hire H-1Bs. The new fee…
Friday the 13th is here: how traditions around the world shape fear of this day Today, 13 February 2026, falls on a Friday, a pairing that, in many Western cultures, carries an air of unease. For some it is a joke; for others, a genuine source of anxiety. The date has inspired secret societies, horror…
Is 2026 going to be gentle? The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report says the world is in what experts call an “age of competition”. Short-term, leaders worry about trade, misinformation, and social divides. Long-term, climate, tech, and environmental threats loom large. People are noticing it too including price hikes, job shifts, political tension and…
Saudi schoolboy surprises classmates by distributing gold jewellery from his family home drawer/Representative Image A quiet school day in Riyadh took an unexpected turn when a primary school pupil arrived carrying something far more valuable than homework. According to a report by Gulf News, the child had brought pieces of gold jewellery from his family…
In the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Narcisse Snake Dens is the provincial wildlife management area, which is located in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong. These dens are the winter home of approximately 100,000 red-sided garter snakes. These sinkholes are believed to contain the largest gathering of this species anywhere on the planet. Their winter…