An American man, who attacked a Sikh taxi driver and called him a terrorist, is facing two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges. Luis Arturo Vazquez, 21, pleaded guilty this week to second-degree assault and malicious harassment for the November attack, which left Sukhvir Singh, 48, with a concussion, cuts, bite marks on his scalp and other injuries. Vazquez had been released on a US$ 25,000 bail after the attack.
Forty-two of the 102 Lok Sabha seats going to polls in the general election's first phase are constituencies that have three or more candidates facing criminal cases, according to a poll rights body.
Nobody of consequence from the BJP condemned the lynchings. Nor have the Akalis. Nor has the Aam Aadmi Party. And nor, for that matter, have Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi who are now deeply immersed in Punjab politics, observes Vir Sanghvi.
Attacks on Muslims have soared in London after July 7 attacks
Ulajh strikes you as an attempt at statement-making gone horribly wrong, a punchline that doesn't land, a roar that never reaches the ear, observes Sreehari Nair.
The US First Lady said that the "we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart".
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday expressed concern over the vandalism of a Hindu temple with anti-India graffiti in the United States, and said extremists and separatist forces outside India should not get such space.
Swaraj on Friday night spoke to the Indian ambassador to Poland Ajay Bisaria regarding the assault on an Indian student in Poznan city whose name was not disclosed.
The police said it was not a case of hate crime.
It said the Congress will infuse new blood in leadership roles without creating new fault lines and cementing its ideological moorings.
Rodrigues in a statement on Tuesday said, "Zakir Naik is a wanted man under the Indian law. He is charged with money laundering crimes and hate speeches."
'Multiplying legislations doesn't necessarily improve law enforcement.' 'An incident of unlawful death is very well covered within existing penal code provisions.'
Sukanya Verma gives us five reasons to look forward to December 1 when Animal's father-son tale unleashes itself on screens.
The gruesome killings of an Indian IT professional and her six-year-old son in a New Jersey town has sent shock waves in the neighbourhood with the motive behind the murders still unknown.
The tricolour flying atop the Indian High Commission was grabbed at by the protesters chanting pro-Khalistani slogans on Sunday, leading to an arrest related to the violent disorder.
He was produced before chief judicial magistrate Ajanta Agrawal at her residence.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli said an attack on individuals does not mean it is an attack on the community but it needs to verify the claims of any such incident if it is made in the public interest litigation.
The alliance adopted a resolution to this effect and said its theme for the elections will be "Judega Bharat, Jeetega India, (India will unite, India will win)".
The Metropolitan police said more than 1,300 officers were on duty on Saturday as tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Aarya 3 feels like a recycled version of the previous seasons, discovers Mayur Sanap.
What happened when Indian-American cartoonist Vishavjit Singh stood outside Donald Trump's inauguration dressed as Captain America?
Jagjeet Singh, who was a clerk at the Hatch Food and Gas convenience store, came to the US 18 months ago and stayed with his sister and brother-in-law in Modesto.
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The Supreme Court found enough grounds to order a CBI probe into 1,528 extra-judicial killings in Manipur between 2000 and 2012.
Oscar Morel from Brooklyn was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon by New York police.
A group of retired civil servants also called upon the PM to reach out to the families of the victims in Unnao and Kathua and "seek their forgiveness on behalf of all of us".
Sunayana Dumala fell out of status because her permission to reside in the US was tied to Kuchibhotla through marriage.
New York City Councilman Donovan Philips, who visited Swami Harish Chander Puri to express support, put it down to the surcharged environment created by President Trump.
The best-case scenario is that the BJP will top out at around 50 seats in UP -- a drop of 12 from the 62 it had won in 2019. Taken in tandem with Maharashtra and Karnataka, this is what is likely to put paid to the BJP's ambitions of a third term for Modi, argues Prem Panicker.
The Pune police registered a case against Hindu seer Kalicharan Maharaj, right-wing leader Milind Ekbote and four others for allegedly making inflammatory speeches during an event in Pune and hurting religious sentiments, officials said on Wednesday.
The Sri Dharma Munisverar temple was reported to have been damaged in Friday's incident though the extent of the damage was yet to be ascertained, Deputy Chief Minister Dr P Ramasamy said.
Security was beefed up around the Indian high commission in London on Monday and Scotland Yard detained one person in connection with vandalism at the mission by Khalistan supporters a day earlier as India asked the UK to quickly arrest and prosecute those involved in the attack.
The Charleston police identified the gunman as Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina. They arrested him from neighbouring North Carolina.
...Even if it means less democracy, so that their everyday problems get solved? argues R Jagannathan.
'You can't go on creating division and rhetoric of hate.' 'It comes to roost. We are seeing the first glimpses of that in the state elections.'
46-year-old Robert Bowers, yelled "all Jews must die" before gunning storming into Synagogue was charged with 29 counts of federal crimes of violence and firearms offense
