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    • IITian CEO says his AI startup is being extorted for $3 million with leaked data: 'Threatening to...'

      Varun Vummadi said the timing of the attack follows heightened visibility after Giga’s $61 million Series A round announced in November 2025.

    • Indian-origin techie quit corporate job to launch startup, helped Apple fight terrorism

      At Apple, Kalyani Ramadurgam held a highly sensitive role, where she worked on preventing the misuse of Apple Pay by terrorist networks.

    • Canada overhauls citizenship laws, restores rights: What it means for Indians

      Canada’s Bill C-3 reforms citizenship laws, restoring rights to those excluded under the first-generation limit and allowing Canadian parents abroad to pass citizenship to children born or adopted overseas.

    • Toronto: Indian-origin Nicholas Singh, listed among Canada’s most wanted, arrested

      Canadian police have arrested Indian-origin fugitive Nicholas Singh in Toronto after a year on the run, recovering a firearm and laying fresh charges while he remains listed among Canada’s most wanted criminals.

    • Punjabi trucking community in the US reels as English test disqualifies thousands

      A surge in enforcement of English-proficiency rules has sidelined thousands of truckers, disproportionately affecting Indian-origin drivers amid mounting safety and labour-shortage concerns.

    • Indian-origin woman sexually assaulted in Walsall, UK cops call it ‘racially aggravated’ attack

      A 20-year-old Indian-origin woman was sexually assaulted in Walsall, UK, in what police have described as a “racially aggravated” attack. Authorities released CCTV footage and urged public assistance to identify the suspect.

    • Indian-origin family killed in US car crash, 14-year old son lone survivor

      The victims - Arvind Mani, 45, his wife Pradeepa Arvind, 40, and their child Andril Arvind, 17, alongwith their lone survivor son Adiryan Arvind, 14, was en route to the University of Texas at Dallas, where Andril was about to begin her studies in computer science.

    • Indian-origin boy, 13, meets Apple CEO Tim Cook at WWDC 2024: 'Mission completed'

      Shaurya Gupta’s post on X quickly became a sensation. With the simple caption “Mission completed” and the event's hashtag, he tagged Tim Cook, capturing a moment many tech enthusiasts dream of.

    • Indian student stabbed to death in Australia; police search for two Indian-origin brothers

      Navjeet Sandhu was fatally attacked with a knife by another student when he tried to intervene in a dispute between a few Indian students over some rent issue, according to the deceased victim's uncle Yashvir in Karnal, Haryana

    • Indian-origin couple, accused of killing adopted son, jailed for 33 years for drug trafficking

      The murder allegations against the Indian-origin couple relate to their 11-year-old adopted son and his brother-in-law in February 2017 in Gujarat.

    • 3 distinguished Indian-origin Singaporeans to be appointed as Nominated MPs in Parliament

      Chairman of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a council member of the Singapore Business Federation, Neil Parekh Nimil Rajnikant, Chandradas Usha Ranee, co-founder of Plural Art Magazine and course coordinator at the Nanyang Business School, and lawyer Raj Joshua Thomas are among the nine appointees

    • Indian-origin teen among 3 killed in UK's Nottingham attacks

      Grace O'Malley Kumar, 19, was reportedly with fellow University of Nottingham student cricketer friend Barnaby Webber, also 19, when the as-yet-unnamed attacker is said to have fatally stabbed the duo in the early hours of Tuesday.

    • Indian-Origin Boy, Dev Shah, Wins US National Spelling Bee After He Spells This 11-letter Word

      Dev Shah, 14-year-old Indian-origin boy, has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2023. The teenager from Largo, Florida spelled the word 'psammophile' correctly, making him the winner of the annual contest in the United States. He previously competed in 2019, where he was tied for the 51st place, and in 2021, where he tied for the 76th place. It's surreal. I didn't even let it settle in. My legs are still shaking," he said. Shah takes home the prize money of $50,000. Watch to know more!

    • Indian-origin teen Dev Shah wins Spelling Bee 2023. His favourite game is Wordle

      Dev Shah, 14, is the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. He spelled the word psammophile correctly to win the title. Last year's Spelling Bee winner too was an Indian-origin teen.

    • Who is Nevin Shetty, Indian-origin ex-CFO in the centre of $35 million crypto embezzlement case?

      'As the CFO of his former employer, tasked with making investment decisions for its benefit, Nevin Shetty was personally devastated by these losses, which occurred as a result of a catastrophic crash in the cryptocurrency market," the Indian-origin executive's lawyer said.

    • Indian-origin doctor purposely drove family off cliff in Tesla, 'he’s depressed', says wife

      An Indian-American family in California survived plunging off a 250-foot cliff in their Tesla in January. Radiologist Dharmesh Patel was arrested on attempted murder and child abuse charges.

    • Indian-origin man jailed for arranging 'sham marriage' in Singapore

      In 2016, the Indian-origin man in Singapore asked his 55-year-old colleague to marry his cash-strapped 58-year-old Singaporean niece.

    • Indian-origin engineer Amit Kshatriya to lead NASA’s Moon to Mars programme

      As the head of the programme, Amit Kshatriya will be responsible for programme planning and implementation for human missions to the Moon and Mars.

    • Indian-origin Laxman Narasimhan on being Starbucks CEO: 'With deepest humility'

      Laxman Narasimhan succeeds longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz, who came out of retirement last spring to serve as interim CEO while the company searched for a new chief executive.

    • Vivek Ramaswamy announces 2024 US presidential bid: 10 points about the candidate with Kerala roots

      Vivek Ramaswamy, whose parents migrated to the US from Kerala, announced his 2024 US presidential bid during a live TV interview.

    • Who is Vivek Ramaswamy, Indian-origin entrepreneur likely to run for US president? 10 points

    • Wife of Indian-origin doctor who drove family off cliff in Tesla doesn’t want him prosecuted: reports

      Dharmesh Patel, an Indian-origin doctor, was booked on attempted murder and child abuse charges after driving his wife and two children off a California cliff in a Tesla.

    • Turkey-Syria earthquake: Indian-origin businessman donates Rs 11 crore for victims

      The United Arab Emirates-based entrepreneur/ philanthropist who hails from Kerala donated Rs 11 crore to help relocate the victims of the earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria last week, killing tens of thousands.

    • Indian-origin Ranj Pillai to become premier of Canada's Yukon

      Ranj Pillai will become just the second premier in Canadian history of Indian heritage, following Ujjal Dosanjh

    • Indian-origin Swapan Dhairyawan appointed director of US Toll Road Authority

      Swapan Dhairyawan immigrated to the United States in 1999 after completing his Bachelor in Commerce and Economics in 1986 and a Master's in Advanced Accounting and Auditing in 1988 from Mumbai University

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