New York: A 48-year-old man in the US has been charged with hate crime after he pummelled an Asian man in the face screaming “We are white power,” “Go back to your country! What are you doing here?,” police said. Steven Zatorski, stormed up to the 30-year-old victim in New York and started kicking him. Witnesses alerted a cop, who arrested the alleged attacker. The incidents of hate crimes and harassment around the country have increased since the election of US President Donald Trump. Over 140 incidents of hate violence and 67 instances of xenophobic political rhetoric have been reported against the South-Asian community during the 2016 election cycle, a report said.
Punjabi man stabbed to death over cigarettes
Washington: A 32-year-old Indian man was stabbed to death in Modesto City of US when he was closing a store. According to his relatives, the victim, Jagjit Singh, battled for his life for nearly nine hours in hospital before succumbing to injuries. His brother-in-law said a customer had come to the store to buy cigarettes and Jagjit asked for his ID proof. Finding the proof improper, he asked for a valid document. An altercation ensued and the customer left. Later at night when Jagjit was closing the store, an unidentified person stabbed him with a knife and left him seriously injured, Cheema said.
PIO couple shot by daughter's ex- boyfriend
Washington: An Indian-origin couple has been killed in an apparent revenge attack by their daughter's ex- boyfriend who too was eventually shot dead in a stand-off with police in the American state of California. Mirza Tatlic, 24, fatally shot Naren Prabhu, a Silicon Valley tech executive, and his wife at their home in San Jose. The suspect had been in a dating relationship with the victims' adult daughter who was not at home,” San Jose police said. The relationship ended last year.
PIO in US saves co-worker, but gets robbed
New York: A 34-year-old Indian-origin man in the US saved the life of his woman co-worker from an oncoming train, but was robbed of his bag while trying to help her. Anil Vannavalli, a data administrator, was waiting for his train to work to Manhattan when 26-year-old Madhuri Recherla fell on the tracks at the Edison train station. While Vannavalli jumped onto the tracks to help her, police said a thief stole his backpack containing his laptop, headphones, cash, and his work ID card. Edison Police later presented a cheque of $1,000 to appreciate Vannavalli's effort.
Nepali girl in Kathmandu mayor race
Kathmandu: Ranju Darshana, a 21-year-old Nepalese woman became the youngest and only female candidate vying for Kathmandu's mayoral post. Darshana filed her papers for the May 14 local polls, the first to be held in over two decades, from the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC). She was nominated by Bibeksheel Nepali Party after she expressed her interest to contest for mayoral post based on the party's `open candidacy policy' last month.
China's Communist officials found funding Dalai Lama
Beijing: China's Communist authorities have disclosed the somewhat embarrassing fact that some party officials were actually donating funds to the Dalai Lama, who is regarded as “a dangerous separatist” by the country's rulers. The disclosure came from a discipline watchdog suggesting that a crackdown on the Dalai Lama's secret supporters within the Communist Party is on the cards. The party would not take kindly to anyone undermining its authority on a sensitive issue like the Dalai Lama, observers said.
Boko Haram chief injured in air strike, his deputy killed
Kano (Nigeria): Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been injured and one of his deputies killed in an air strike in northeast Nigeria, civilian and security sources said. Two Nigerian Air Force jets bombarded fighters who had gathered for prayers in Balla village on the edge of the Sambisa Forest. “Shekau was wounded in the bombings and is believed to be receiving treatment near the Nigerian border with Cameroon around Kolofata,” a source said. “His deputy, Abba Mustapha, alias Malam Abba, was killed in the attack along with another key lieutenant, Abubakar Gashua, alias Abu Aisha,” the source added.
Nepal CJ reinstated after row
Kathmandu: Nepal's supreme court reinstated the country's first woman chief justice Sushila Karki and directed parliament to halt her impeachment as the tussle between the legislature and the judiciary took a dramatic turn. Just hours after the SC's interim order, chief justice Karki returned to office. SC assistant spokesperson Bishwo Raj Paudel said, “She will start legal work soon.” A single member bench of Justice Cholendra Shamsher Rana issued the order stating that the impeachment move was against the spirit of Nepal's statute. His order came in response to a writ petition against the motion to impeach Karki.
