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Indian man to be deported from New Zealand after being caught in underage sex ring. (Photo: NZ Herald) An Indian man, Nishanth Parakudiyil Prahladan, faces deportation from New Zealand after he pleaded guilty to having sought sex from a 13-year-old girl whom he thought was 19. The 25-year-old migrant worker contacted the girl in 2023…
TOI correspondent from London: The family of British national Christian Michel, the alleged middleman incarcerated in Delhi’s Tihar Jail for more than seven years in the AgustaWestland chopper scam case, has stepped up efforts to secure his freedom, with his son Alois Michel calling upon India to “follow its own extradition laws” and release his…
Indian travelers won’t need a transit visa for a layover at any German airport starting from June 3. Germany announced that Indian nationals will no longer require a transit visa when traveling to another country with a layover at a German airport. The new rule come into effect on June 3. “This implements a result…
The remains of one of medieval Europe’s most influential queens have been examined for the first time in nearly 700 years after archaeologists opened her tomb at the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes in Barcelona. Queen Elisenda of Montcada, a powerful royal figure who helped shape medieval Catalonia, was buried in an elaborate…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Historians may someday conclude that US President Donald Trump‘s greatest contribution to American political discourse was not immigration enforcement or peace treaty, or even a trade war. It may have been a painstaking seminar on how he coined the word “Dumocrats.“In several interviews and speeches over the past week, Trump has…
Indian-American CEO says if he were 25 again, he would not come to the US. Indian-American CEO Srini Madala who came to the US in 1986 and then went on to make it big in a foreign land as he founded three startups said he would not have come to the US now. Speaking to…
The man convicted of murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak in a Southampton stabbing has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years.Vickrum Digwa, 23, received the sentence after a jury found him guilty of the December 2025 killing. Digwa, who carried a 21cm blade he said formed part of his Sikh faith, denied…
Some USCIS officers have begun asking green-card applicants why they chose Adjustment of Status (AOS) rather than consular processing abroad following the agency’s controversial May 22 policy memo, according to immigration attorneys.Attorneys told TOI that while several field officers are questioning applicants on why they did not pursue immigrant visa processing in their home country,…
Indian-origin entrepreneur and The Apprentice winner Karishma Vijay became emotional and appeared to break down in tears while opening up about body insecurities and mental health struggles, saying the pressures of a life-changing year have left her exhausted.The 29-year-old won a £250,000 investment from Alan Sugar earlier this year for her skincare brand Kishkin after…
Most people use a paper cup for a few minutes and throw it away. Sunil Joseph chose a different path. The 57-year-old social worker from Kerala spent years collecting paper cups from around the world and turned that unusual hobby into a Guinness World Record. On December 1, 2025, Guinness officially recognised his collection of…
