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,…
The UK government has revoked travel authorisations for pro-Palestinian figures Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, preventing them from entering the country ahead of scheduled speaking engagements in London.The pair had been due to participate in the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in London and speak at the Oxford Union this week.In a statement to CNN,…
For decades, archaeologists suspected that a strange landscape hidden in the Spanish Pyrenees was more than a product of nature. Deep trenches, artificial ravines and enormous excavated areas hinted at a forgotten human story buried beneath the mountains. Now, researchers have confirmed that the site, known as Guilleteres d’All in northeastern Spain, was once a…
Across the southern United States, rivers tend to blur the line between open water and wild habitat in a way that is hard to separate on a map. Wide channels slip through marshes, cypress stands, and low floodplains, carrying sediment, fish, and submerged vegetation in slow motion. In these same waters, alligators remain a constant…
Donald Trump with Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Asim Munir (PTI file photo) Pakistan’s fragile economy is spending an estimated $900,000 every month on lobbying efforts in the United States, taking its annual outlay to roughly $10-12 million, according to public disclosures filed under the US foreign agents registration act (FARA).The spending comes…
Russia on Monday strongly condemned France’s detention of a Russian-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean, describing the action as illegal and warning that Moscow would take steps to safeguard its shipping operations.Reacting to France’s seizure of the tanker Tagor, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia considered the move unlawful, according to Reuters.“We consider such…
Hundreds of youths marched to Kenya’s Laikipia Air Base on Monday to protest against plans to establish an Ebola quarantine centre for American citizens exposed to the virus.The demonstration took place in the central town of Nanyuki, two days after Kenya’s High Court suspended the establishment of the facility and halted the arrival of any…
Indian-origin woman from California met a catastrophic accident during her birthday trip to Mexico earlier this month. Nina Bakhshi, an Indian-origin Californian makeup artist, had the most harrowing birthday trip this year as she chose a guided ATV (all-terrain vehicle) tour of Cenote La Noria in Mexico, where she fell from a bridge and suffered…
PC: Facebook (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Ancient stones rarely behave like still objects in Egypt. At the Karnak temples in Luxor, walls and gateways tend to reappear in unexpected forms, as if the past has been repeatedly folded and stitched back together by different hands across centuries. The latest work north of the temple…
PC: Guinness World Record On the mudflats outside Mombasa, the tide does not sit still for long. It pulls in, withdraws, leaves behind a surface that looks soft but behaves like something less forgiving once you step into it. On a stretch of coast usually shaped by salt, heat, and passing weather systems, a man…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is seen wearing an Arsenal-inspired thobe during an Eid al-Adha celebration in the Bronx, New York/ Image: X Zohran Mamdani celebrated Eid al-Adha in the Bronx wearing a custom Arsenal-inspired thobe, combining his long-standing support for the English football club with traditional Eid attire during a public appearance alongside…
