James Weston Higginbotham (top left, long hair) has been missing since May 29 A 20-year-old Auburn University student from Alabama who went missing during a family vacation in Japan has been found dead, bringing a tragic end to a weeklong search that drew international attention. James “Weston” Higginbotham, a junior studying biosystems engineering at Auburn…

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House prices fall in Texas, coinciding with the exodus of Indian-origin people. Republican Brandon Gill, who rarely hides his hatred for immigrants, including Indians, despite being married to Indian-origin Danielle D’Souza, reacted to a report on the housing market decline in Texas owing to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on H-1B visa abuse. Bloomberg recently reported…

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Two caste bills failed to advance in New York State. Two bills that sought to add caste as a protected category under New York’s anti-discrimination laws failed to advance this legislative session. The bills, New York Senate Bill S.6531 and Assembly Bill A.6920, were first introduced in 2025, triggering a major debate on how these…

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WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum is behind the largest single donation ever made to an Israeli hospital. Co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp Jan Koum has created a ripple as he donated $200 million to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, the largest single donation ever made to an Israeli hospital. While Koum is known for…

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Fox News anchor asks Chip Roy why Republican Congressmen too supported the H-1B visa program for so long. As conservative news host and Fox journalist Laura Ingraham interviewed Republican Congressman Chip Roy on his new proposed legislation against the H-1B visa program, Ingraham told Roy that Congressmen from both parties are “culpable” for the abuse…

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Indian-origin man Lovepreet Singh posted a video of how a woman in Canada asked him to ‘go back to India’. A video of an Indian-origin man strongly resisting a racist attack from a woman in Canada’s Nova Scotia has been going viral. The woman who was driving a car asked the man who was recording…

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Henry Nowak (left) and Vikram Singh Digwa (right) A group of 11 Sikh MPs has issued a joint statement distancing Sikhism from the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak, who was fatally stabbed in Southampton by Sikh man Vickrum Singh Digwa.The intervention comes amid increasing public anger over the case, which began a debate around…

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The UAE has announced a temporary suspension of new visas for nationals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and South Sudan as authorities step up measures to prevent the spread of Ebola.The decision, announced jointly by the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA) and the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs…

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A member of a notorious north London gang has been convicted of conspiring to murder a man who was shot outside his family’s restaurant after they refused to pay £100,000. Beytullah Gunduz, 39, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of conspiracy to murder Onur Guzel, who was shot outside the Umut 2000 Turkish restaurant…

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Independent MP Adnan Hussain has backed Southampton’s Sikh community after reports of rising fear and intimidation following the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak, saying no group should be blamed for the actions of an individual.In a post on X, the Blackburn MP said Sikh residents should not face harassment over a crime committed by…

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