- Thursday, July 17, 2025
KIDAMBI SRIKANTH, who is struggling to come out of a lean patch, entered the quarterfinals of Malaysia Masters in Kuala Lumpur after defeating Ireland's Nhat Nguyen in his second-round match on Thursday. The 32-year-old veteran prevailed 23-21, 21-17 in the 59-minute showdown against world number 33 Nguyen. Srikanth, currently ranked…
MICROSOFT'S former employee Vaniya Agarwal, who was fired last month for interrupting the company’s 50th anniversary celebration with pro-Palestine protests, tried to disrupt another company event in Seattle, Washington. She and another former Microsoft employee Hossam Nasr tried to disrupt a Build session on AI security by shouting down Neta…
TWO Israeli embassy staffers, a young couple about to be engaged, were killed by a lone gunman in Washington, DC, on Wednesday (21) night. The couple was fired upon as they left an event for young professionals and diplomatic staff at the Capital Jewish Museum, about two kilometers away from…
DEMOCRATIC congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's campaign for the US senate got a boost after a group of current and former mayors across Illinois endorsed him. Krishnamoorthi is in the race for the Illinois senate seat in 2026, after veteran senator Dick Durbin announced he would not seek re-election. The coalition of…
WHILE India's male shuttlers, led by H S Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth, were off to a brilliant start, double Olympic-medallist PV Sindhu bowed out with a first-round loss at the Malaysia Masters badminton tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday (21). Prannoy and Srikanth were joined by Satish Karunakaran in the…
AN INDIAN-AMERICAN has pleaded guilty to staging armed robberies at retail outlets across several states to help individuals fraudulently obtain US immigration benefits. Rambhai Patel, 37, a resident of New York, entered a guilty plea on Tuesday (20) before US District Judge Myong J. Joun in Boston to one count…
AFTER being a pit stop for vacationers heading to Walt Disney World for over five decades, the Universal Orlando Resort is set to get a major makeover and pose a threat to the former's dominance. NBCUniversal's owner Comcast aims to rewrite the travel itinerary with Epic Universe, a major new…
IN a tragic incident, Akshay Gupta, a 30-year-old Indian American entrepreneur, was fatally stabbed by another Indian man in a commuter bus in Austin, Texas, police said. The Austin Police Department (APD) said that the incident happened when Gupta was travelling in a bus on May 14. The suspect was…
AFTER the Donald Trump administration imposed visa restrictions on Indian travel agents accused of smuggling migrants into the US, his supporters now want a similar crackdowns on legal migrations. Trump ally and Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporter Laura Loomer turned the spotlight on H-1B visas and called for their…
THE SUPREME COURT on Wednesday (21) granted interim bail to Ashoka University associate professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, arrested for his social media posts on Operation Sindoor. The bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice NK Singh clarified that the interim bail is granted to facilitate further investigation and refused to…
