ABD student found dead in Delhi under mysterious circumstances (Update)

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Correction from original story: the name of the victim is Keanan not Kenan. Keanan, was the son of Little India editor, Anchal Mehra. This is either one of the weirdest suicides ever, or, one of the craziest […]

Breaking News: Serial blasts in Jaipur [Updated]

UPDATE 3: 4 people have been arrested in connection with the blasts .Preliminary reports indicate that the Bangladesh based Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami. is responsible (link)
UPDATE 2: CNN puts the death toll now at 60. There is still no attribution for these terrorist attacks, but officials have since said that an eighth bomb was defused. […]

Playing cricket can be hazardous to your health..

…. if you are a drug dealer. We’ve heard of pick up hoops (basketball). Now we have pick up cricket. A major Sri Lankan drug lord was literally picked up by cops in the middle of a cricket game. [link] (tip Karthik via email)
One of Sri Lanka’s biggest drug lords has been finally arrested in […]

Indian priest arrested on molestation charges

In a shocking incident, Prakashanand Saraswati the 79-year old founder of the Barsana Dham centre in north Hays County in Texas was arrested at an airport in Washington, DC last week on suspicion of molesting young children. ( link)
Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt Leroy Opiela said, the priest was booked “on two indictments alleging […]

Desi killer to be extradited

The Delhi High court in India dismissed an appeal by Kamlesh Agarwal, accused killer of Deepa Agarwal, a twenty year old ABD Florida college student . (Tip:Santosh via email) Kamlesh Agarwal - a cousin of Deepa’s father, killed her in her Orlando Florida home on July 11, 1999. He then fled to India. Deepa’s parents […]

Fijian desi killed (Update)

The suburban oasis of San Ramon, around fifty miles from San Francisco is a quiet, sylvan place. On Sunday , the city reported its first homicide in two years.The body of 42-year old Kashmir Singh Billon was found next to the bullet ridden BMW that he owned.(link)
The husband and father of three grew up in […]

Long sentences in store for desi couple involved in slavery

Remember the desi couple, Varsha and Mahender Sabhnani, who got into trouble for keeping slaves? (1,2) (You heard that right, slaves in the 21st century)
img: via NewsDay
After their day in court, feds have recommended that Varsha Sabhnani get 30 years to life in prison and Mahender Sabhnani serve between 12 to 15 years. [Main Story]
The […]

Desi kills wife, stabs daughter

34-year old Balbir Singh has been arrested and charged with murder in the Sunday night stabbing death of his wife, New York city police said. Singh killed his wife Sunday night in their apartment in Queens in an attack that also left his 7-year-old daughter hospitalized with a stab wound in the arm. (link)
Another […]

Clinton’s $109 million includes desi donor

By now you’ve probably heard of the $109 million earnings of the Clintons since they left office in 2001, which some pundits predict could put the final nail in the coffin of a struggling Hillary Clinton campaign.
One the major donors of the Clintons’ fortune is InfoUSA founder, Vinod Gupta.
From TOI
An Indian-American technology entrepreneur, whose connections […]

Justice for Kapali?

On November 18,2007  Kapali Giridhar Swamy , 27 of Decatur, Alabama was traveling in a car along with Gina Gonzalez and Christopher Brett Pennington to Pennington’s residence after  a night out in Birmingham. Along the way, an argument began between Swamy  and Gonzalez that escalated to the point that Pennington hit Swamy. Kapali fell to the ground. […]

Indian students’ safety on US campuses

DNA India picked up on recent reports of deaths of Indian students in the US and ran a story/op-ed with the sensational headline “Are our children safe in the US?”. [link]
BBC followed up with an even more sensational headline “Insecurity grips Indian students in US”. [link]
As a background to this story, in the last 12 […]

NRI guilty in US-India arms deal

Parthasarathy Sudarshan, a resident of Simpsonville, South Carolina, has been found guilty of illegal arms export from US to India. [link]
img: via AFP
A citizen of India living legally in South Carolina pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to illegally export weapons to India, authorities said Thursday. It was one of two cases involving illegal […]

Southie film industry involved in visa scam

Several film industry personnel in South India are on the US blacklist after a visa scam was unearthed. The scam was simple and effective, people were paying movie industry contacts money so they could pretend to work on a movie in the US, entered the US on a temporary visa and stayed on illegally. To […]

Another Indian PhD student shot dead (Update 2: UNC suspect charged in Mahato killing)

Abhijit Mahato completed his mechanical engineering degree from Jadavpur University in 2001 and an M.Tech from the Indian Institute for Technology (IIT) in Kanpur in 2004. He then worked at the GE Research center in Bangalore for two years, focusing his research on computer simulation techniques.Like so many other desi kids, he decided to complete […]

Don’t touch that !

My friends of the XY peruasion - it has been hard times for that extra appendage that deludes you into thinking you has conferred on you the right to rule the world. Last month an Italian court ruled that grabbing the crotch to ward off the evil eye is unlawful. Evidently, Italian men follow the […]

Endoscopy Center belonging to desi doctor involved in medical scandal

A desi doctor’s institution in Nevada is in trouble for some alleged mishaps at a clinic he owns. [link] (tip Chickpea)
A week after 40,000 Nevadans learned that unsanitary injections might have infected them with hepatitis C or the AIDS virus, five certified nurse anesthetists surrendered their licenses today until authorities learn how and why a […]

Desi medico found dead (updated)

Unfortunately, yet another Indian origin student has been discovered dead in mysterious circumstances. The body of Akkaladevi Srinivas (29), hailing from Korutla in Karimnagar District, was found.He had been stabbed to death. Srinivas was a student in Pennsylvania.
An MBBS student of 1995 batch of Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad, Srinivas had joined Scranton State University […]

Desi Uncle arrested for wife’s murder

Last month, Virginia police discovered the charred body of Vanalata Patel off a highway in Virginia.
57 year old Vanlata Patel’s body was found in a brush fire just off Interstate 85 near South Hill.(link)
Initially, police did not suspect her husband Harish Patel, 60. They described him as “distraught” after hearing of his wife’s death. […]

Desi killed in 7-11 robbery

55 - year old Surinder Kumar Goswami died Friday night at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Vallejo,California. He worked as a clerk at the 7-11 in the graveyard shift for around seven years. He was the victim of a robbery by unknown persons.A customer found him shot and called the police (link)
Kumar had […]

Mystery surrounds the death of a Desi student

The mysterious death of Mahesh Subramanian is sad, but the authorities made it worse.

A Northern Kentucky University student was found dead Sunday at his apartment in the Hidden Valley Apartment complex.
Computer- and electrical-engineering technology major Mahesh Subramannian, 20, died of undetermined causes. An autopsy is being performed to discover the cause. Police do not suspect […]

Daddy dearest

On November 18, 2007 Kaushik Patel, 34 of Glendale Heights in Chicago decided to kill himself. He also wanted to kill his 2 sons Vishv, 7 and Om, 4.
He dragged his sons into the shower, doused all three with gasoline and set them alight. On Jan 17, 2008 Om Patel died in the burn unit […]

Another desi victim of 9/11

The flyer with Dr.Sneha Philip’s photograph  differed from the many photos of missing people stacked around Ground Zero after that terrible day September 11, 2001 because it read “Missing since Monday, September 10th.” On the night of the 10th, Dr. Philip bought shoes, bed linens and lingerie at a department store across the street from […]

Desi Dr. Death

Police in India have launched an international manhunt for Dr. Amit Kumar ( alias Dr.Santosh Raut) for masterminding an organ snatching scheme . Poor laborers from Uttar Pradesh had their kidneys removed without their consent. The intended recipients for the kidneys were rich foreigners and NRIs. The involuntary kidney donors received between $ 1200 […]

Unprovoked attack on senior Sikh outside Gurudwara

The haters are at it again. How many more times are we going to see ignorance and intolerance manifest itself in violence against Sikhs in the USA?
Baljeet Singh, a 63-year-old Sikh man suffered serious injuries on Monday evening during an unprovoked attack by David C.Wood (36) , according to a press release from UNITED SIKH. […]

More updates on the Wisconsin Desi Abortion Drug Story (Latest: Manish flees to India)

Manishkumar Patel, the accused in this case posted bail and vanished!! [link via]
Appleton lawyer Thomas Zoesch said Friday he will withdraw as attorney for Manish Patel, the defendant in an abortion pill case who is now believed to have fled the area.
Now we can only speculate where he fled to but you would assume that […]