A 49-year-old Indian-American man was sentenced to 26 months in prison for threatening to injure and kill employees of a Sikh non-profit organisation. Bhushan Athale, a resident of Dallas, Texas, is said to have a history of making faith-based remarks. Athale pleaded guilty before US District Judge, Edward S Kiel, in Camden Federal Court to…
Sharmishtha Panoli (File photo) NEW DELHI: Kolkata Police defended the arrest of Instagram influencer Sharmistha Panoli, saying that legal action was taken not for her political views but for allegedly sharing a video that insulted religious beliefs and promoted communal disharmony.In a detailed statement posted on X, Kolkata Police dismissed claims circulating online that Panoli…
KARNAL: Navy officer Lt Vinay Narwal‘s wife Himanshi, whose forlorn figure next to her slain husband’s body became the face of the tragedy wrought by Pakistan-backed terrorists in J&K’s Pahalgam on April 22, appealed Thursday for people to refrain from spewing hatred and seeking reprisal against any particular community.“We don’t want people going after Muslims…
A man barged into the property of a Hindu family in New York’s Queens Village and ripped down religious flags, discarded them in the garbage and left the family in absolute shock. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is probing the incident as a hate crime. The incident is from April 20 but came to…
A disturbing video from Pinole, California, has gone viral, showing a woman of Indian-Fijian descent repeatedly using racist slurs toward a Black woman. The incident occurred on April 13 in the parking lot outside Pear Street Bistro and BMO Bank. In just 12 seconds, the woman—identified as 34-year-old Natasha Chand — was heard using the…
A prayer room used by Muslim students at New York University was struck by vandals who etched and drew graffiti on the walls and soaked Islamic prayer mats with urine, according to N.Y.U. officials and members of the university’s Muslim community. The soiled mats and other vandalism were discovered Thursday afternoon in a worship space…
One of the most thrilling and important games in the history of this tournament that doesn’t get mentioned enough happened on March 30, 1991: Duke’s 79-77 upset of previously unbeaten UNLV at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Or maybe it’s been mentioned enough and decades have passed. But I feel like I see Grant Hill…
Marko Elez, a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who resigned in February over racist social media posts, has been reinstated with expanded access to sensitive government data. According to recent court filings, Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, now holds positions within the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),…
Predictable. Compelling. Depressing. Exciting. Indicative of future tournaments that will lack the charm America has grown to love. Indicative of a weekend ahead that will thrill American basketball lovers. Take your pick and acknowledge two truths. One, the men’s NCAA Tournament Final Four will feature all No. 1 seeds for the first time since 2008…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Zubair Ahmad on Wednesday slammed BJP MLA from Shakur Basti Karnail Singh‘s demand for action to “prevent the inconvenience caused by the offering of Namaz in public places“, terming it a way to divert attention from real issues.Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed said, “Sometimes they have issues with the call…