An Australian teenage girl has been charged for killing an Indian student she had met through a dating app. Jamie Lee Dolheguy, 18, was arrested last week over an attack on Maulin Rathod at her home in Sunbury, which left him with fatal injuries. The 25-year-old student died in a hospital the following day. The teenager was charged with attempted murder, intentionally causing serious injury and recklessly causing serious injury after her arrest, and also faced a charge of murder. She was remanded to custody to appear before the court again on November 19.
US radio hosts apologise for calling Sikh AG ‘turban man’
Two radio hosts in New Jersey, who called America’s first Sikh-American Attorney General Gurbir Grewal “turban man” on air, have apologised for their racist remarks and have been slapped with a 10-day suspension for using “demeaning and inappropriate” language. Dennis Malloy and Judi Franco, who host the “Dennis and Judi Show” were talking about Grewal’s decision to suspend marjiuana prosecutions in New Jersey when they repeatedly called him the “turban man.” As the audio of their show went viral, the radio hosts drew widespread criticism for their remarks against the state’s top law enforcement official.
Indian-American boy graduates as engineer aged 15
Indian American boy Tanishq Abraham who graduated from a California college at the age of 11, earned his degree in biomedical engineering at the age of 15. Tanishq received his degree on June 17, just a few days after he turned 15. His parents discovered that Tanishq was “a few years ahead of other kids when he was in kindergarden. He was enrolled in the college at the age five and had cracked math courses offered by Stanford University’s Education Programme for Gifted Youth in less than six months. At six, he took online high school and college level classes in subjects such as chemistry, paleontology, biology, and geology, and at seven, he completed courses in Geology & Astronomy, emerging as the top student in both classes.
Hindu PPP candidate wins NA seat from Tharparkar
Mahesh Kumar Malani of Pakistan Peoples Party became the first Hindu to win the National Assembly seat from Tharparkar in Sindh province. Malani, the 55-year-old minority community leader, defeated his nearest rival Arab Zakaullah of the Grand Democratic Alliance in the NA-222 seat. He secured 37,245 votes while Zakaullah received 18,323 votes. Malani was a member of parliament from 2003-08 on a reserved seat, nominated by the PPP. In 2013 elections, Malani was elected as member of provincial assembly in Sindh.
Indian American becomes CEO of Democratic Party
Indian American Seema Nanda, who took over as the CEO of Democratic National Committee has vowed to fight to ensure the victory of Democrats in every corner of the US in the crucial upcoming mid-term elections. Nanda, the first Indian- American ever to be the Chief Executive Officer of either the Democratic National Committee or the Republican National Committee took over reigns of the main opposition party last week on July 23. She is be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Democratic National Committee. She would play a key role in party's winning strategy in the mid-term November elections, for which the DNC has set a target of winning back the House of Representatives from the Republicans.
India to shut down camp-office in Nepal
India will close down the camp-office of its embassy in Nepal's Biratnagar from August 1 as per the request made by the Nepalese Government. "All services including issuing of motor-vehicle permits, registration certificates for Indian nationals, attestation of documents, etc will cease with effect from 1st August 2018," the Embassy said. The embassy has also called concerned persons to contact Indian Embassy, Kathmandu effective from August 1 for the services rendered by the Biratnagar camp office. During PM Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal in May, the decision was conveyed to Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
Pak-origin man behind Toronto mass shooting
A Pakistan-origin man has been identified by the Canadian police as the gunman who killed two persons and injured 13 others in a mass shooting incident in Toronto claimed by the Islamic State terror group. Faisal Hussain, 29, was suffering from psychosis and was getting professional help, reports said. IS said Hussain was “one of the soldiers of the Islamic State”. Hussain's parents who migrated from Pakistan said that their son was in the grip of untreatable and severe mental illness for “his entire life.”
86 killed in Chinese floods, landslides
At least 86 people have been killed and around 23 million have been affected due to floods, landslides and other natural disasters in China, authorities said. Zhang Jiatuan, a spokesperson, said that floods had affected around 2.18 million hectares of farmland and destroyed 30,000 houses. At least 13 people were missing. Funds worth 1.7 billion yuan ($250 million) have been distributed for the affected areas. Large parts of China, especially the southern regions, get affected every summer by torrential rains and typhoons, causing several deaths.
Bangla police charge 8 for Dhaka cafe attack; British suspect freed
Bangladesh police have charged eight militants over a 2016 attack on a cafe in Dhaka that killed 22 people, and freed a British suspect detained without charge for the past two years. Briton Hasnat Karim was detained after the July 2016 attack in Dhaka on suspicion of being involved. Rights group Amnesty International had campaigned for his release. Karim was with his family celebrating his daughter's 13th birthday at the cafe when militants barged in, taking 22 hostages, mostly foreigners, who were killed over 12 hours. Karim became a suspect after he agreed to a demand to act as a human shield during the ordeal, witnesses said at the time. An investigation found Karim was not involved.
74 killed as wildfires ravage Greece
Wildfires sweeping through a Greek resort town have killed at least 74 people, including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to flee the flames. The inferno was by far Greece’s worst since fires devastated the Peloponnese peninsula in August 2007, killing dozens. Officials said it broke out in Mati, east of Athens and was broadly contained. “Greece is going through an unspeakable tragedy,” PM Alexis Tsipras said as he declared three days of national mourning. Emergency crews found the bodies of 26 victims, some of them youngsters, lying close together near the top of a cliff overlooking a beach.
Japan hangs 6 more cult members
The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed for a series of crimes in the 1990s, including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people. Thirteen members of the group had received death sentences. The first seven, including cult leader Shoko Asahara, were hanged about three weeks ago. Japan has never executed so many people in one month, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa said. She called their crimes unprecedentedly heinous and said they should never be repeated.
Indonesian Christian jailed for ‘insulting’ Islam on FB
An Indonesian Christian has been sentenced to four years in prison for a Facebook post that likened the prophet Muhammad to a pig. A Sumatra court ruled that Martinus Gulo was hostile toward Muslims in his post, which also said Mohammed sanctioned bestiality. The court ordered the 21-year-old to pay a fine of one billion rupiah ($70,000) or spend an additional six months in jail.
