MEMPHIS, TN - Three Indian teenage siblings were among four people killed in a fire during Christmas celebrations at a house here. The fire killed a woman and three teens from Telangana who were staying with her family through the holidays, USA Today reported. “Kari Coudriet — of Collierville, Tennessee — as well as Sharron, 17, Joy, 15, and Aaron, 14 — teen siblings of the Naik family from India — all died in the fire,” the paper reported, citing a statement issued by the Coudriets’ church,
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NEW YORK - A man has been arrested for allegedly killing an Indian-origin police officer during a traffic stop in California's Newman county, officials said. The suspect was identified as Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, who came to the US illegally and was believed to have been fleeing to Mexico, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson told CNN on Friday. Arriaga was arrested from a home in Kern County, about 200 miles south of where the shooting occurred on Christmas night.
NEW YORK - An Indian-origin police officer was shot and killed by an unidentified man during a traffic stop in the US state of California, officials said. Officer Ronil Singh, 33, had been working with the Newman Police Department since July 2011. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop when he was "working overtime on Christmas night to provide the best for his family", police officials said. The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department, leading a probe into Singh's death,
WASHINGTON - A US man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for a brutal attack on a Sikh American taxi driver in Seattle city last year. Swarn Singh, 53, was assaulted with a hammer by Rory Benson on December 16, 2017. The accused pleaded guilty to the attack and was given the sentence by a court in Seattle late last week, the community's civil rights group -- Sikh Coalition -- tweeted on Tuesday. During the incident, Singh who maintains Sikh articles of faith including unshorn hair and a turban,
NEW YORK - A 54-year-old man has been charged with hate crime for assaulting an Indian-origin woman on a subway and hurling homophobic slurs at her. Allasheed Allah from Manhattan's East Harlem neighbourhood was arrested on Thursday and charged with assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment against 20-year-old Avneet Kaur during the November 30 attack in New York City's Queens borough, the police said. Allah is also accused of hurling homophobic slurs at the woman before physically...
WASHINGTON - A 34-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a US flight early this year. Prabhu Ramamoorthy, living in the US on a temporary work visa, was accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman seated by the window next to him while his wife was on his other side on a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit on January 3. He will be deported back to India after he serves his sentence, a federal court in Detroit said on Thursday...
WASHINGTON - Multiple institutions across the US on Thursday received emails and phone calls threatening bomb attacks, which caused evacuations and law enforcement actions.The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement its staff were aware of the recent bomb threats made in cities around the country. "We remain in touch with our law enforcement partners to provide assistance," Xinhua news agency reported. The New York Police Department tweeted that it was monitoring...
WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin professor in the US compelled his students to act as his personal servants, a daily said. The Kansas City Star daily in a report on Sunday said that it had found that over professor Ashim Mitra's 24 years as a leader in the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Pharmacy, his students hauled equipment and bused tables at his social events. They were expected to tend his lawn, look after his dog and water the house plants, sometimes for weeks at a time when he and...
 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin man has been charged in the US with H-1B visa and mail fraud, officials said. Kishore Kumar Kavuru, 46, was arrested on Friday and was presented before US Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen, the US Department of Justice said in a press release. He was charged with 10 counts of visa fraud and 10 counts of mail fraud in connection with a scheme to maintain a pool of foreign workers for the clients...
 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin doctor has pleaded guilty to a healthcare fraud in the US, the Justice Department said. Jayam Krishna Iyer, 66, from Clearwater, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of the healthcare fraud earlier this week and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, or 20 years, if her offence involves serious bodily injury, the Department said in a press release. As part of the plea on Tuesday,
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