A heartwarming anniversary post for his wife by Indian-origin Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy was bombarded with racist and anti-immigrant comments by X users over his views on the H-1B programme. Both Ramaswamy, who had put his hat in the ring for the US presidential polls but withdrew from the race, and his wife Dr Apoorva…
At the Qatar Economic Forum, billionaire Elon Musk confronted journalist and moderator Mishal Husain over South Africa’s race-based licencing laws, accusing her of dodging a question about whether she supports what he called ‘racist laws.’ “I’m in this absurd situation where I was born in South Africa but cannot get a licence to operate Starlink…
A former athletic director at a Baltimore area high school who was accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic audio clip impersonating the school’s principal was sentenced on Monday to four months in jail as part of a plea deal, according to prosecutors. The former director, Dazhon Darien, 32, pleaded guilty…
A man accused of wounding two women with a crossbow in the British city of Leeds on Saturday has died of a self-inflicted injury, the police said on Tuesday. The suspect, Owen Lawrence, 38, died in the hospital where he was taken after his arrest at the scene of the attack, the counterterrorism police said…
While using Apple’s automatic dictation feature to send messages on Tuesday, some iPhone users reported seeing a peculiar bug: the word “racist” temporarily appearing as “Trump,” before quickly correcting itself. The message blip, which was replicated several times by The New York Times, provoked controversy after appearing in a viral TikTok post, raising questions about…
US Vice President JD Vance and Indian-origin Congressman Ro Khanna indulged in a war of words on X as Tesla CEO Elon Musk reinstated a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer, who resigned earlier this week after his previous social media posts emerged where he made racist comments. On Thursday, Marko Elez, 25, resigned from…
A 27-year-old Indian-origin man has been sentenced to four weeks in jail and fined SGD 4,000 for hurling racial slurs and throwing a tip box at a cashier in a Project Acai cafe in Singapore’s Holland Village. The incident occurred on October 31. The 27-year-old man, identified as Rishi David Ramesh Nandwani, was informed by…
An Indian-American family plans to press charges against the woman who hurled racist slurs at them on an airline shuttle bus, saying their generation is different from that of their parents and they won’t just put their head down and keep quiet. The incident took place in November onboard a United Airlines shuttle when photographer…
An American woman has been placed on United Airlines’ no-fly list after launching a racist attack on a celebrated wedding photographer and his Indian-American family on a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport. The woman, Karen, was caught on camera making vile racist comments towards photographer Pervez Taufiq and his family, including two children….