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The two wheeler vehicle, the Silence and the DNA Test: The Tragic Final Story of Filmmaker Mahesh Jirawala Ahmedabad’s devastating Air India AI-171 crash on June 12, 2025, claimed 260 lives and left behind countless shattered families. Among those killed was 34-year-old Gujarati filmmaker Mahesh Jirawala, a man whose death would leave his loved ones […]
A dream wedding turned into a nightmare in the United States after 26-year-old Indian-origin pilot Dave Fiji died in a helicopter crash just hours after marrying longtime partner Jessni in Georgia. Dave, whose family traces its roots to Kerala, was travelling with his new bride for a special post-wedding sendoff when the Robinson R66 helicopter […]
Chandrakant ‘Lala’ Patel, accused of masterminding a large U-visa fraud scheme in the United States, has pleaded guilty to serious federal charges and is now facing possible deportation. The U-visa programme in the US is designed to help victims of serious crimes who assist law enforcement agencies in investigations. However, according to US authorities, Patel […]
A 22-year-old Gujarati student, Vidhi Meghani has been murdered in Niagara, Canad. Vidhi, originally from Gujarat, had been living in Canada for the past four years while pursuing higher education. According to reports, she was residing in the Niagara region and, like many international students, was balancing her studies with a part-time job to manage […]
A woman from Gujarat’s Mehsana district was shot dead inside her convenience store in the United States in a shocking incident that was captured on CCTV footage and has since gone viral on social media. The victim, identified as Meghna Patel, hailed from Jantral village in Vijapur taluka of Mehsana district and had been living […]
The Pipavav port case and the Supreme Court’s remarks reveal how Gujarat and India handle dissent regarding development projects. Chief Justice Surya Kant recently declared in open court that if enviornmentalists ever welcomed a project indicating that they always have objections. This dismissive comment was disheartening and reportedly undermined environmental public interest cases before arguments […]
Siddharth Sunil Kumar Patel, a 41-year-old tech professional originally from Gujarat and now residing in Frisco, Texas, has been arrested in the United States following a major undercover child abuse sting operation. The operation, conducted by Florida law enforcement agencies, targeted alleged online predators. According to authorities, Patel travelled from Texas to Florida after allegedly […]
Nearly a year after the devastating Ahmedabad Air India plane crash that killed 260 people and shook India’s aviation sector, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu has said the final investigation report into the tragedy is expected within the next month. Speaking after attending the India Aircraft Leasing and Financing Summit 2.0 at GIFT […]
Above: Dalits of Bhutadi village in Gujarat. By Special Arrangement, Vibes of India. Five men walked into the Dalit community’s lane in Bhutdi village, Junagadh district, on the evening of April 27. They had an invitation to deliver —to the consecration feast of a newly built Lord Ram temple scheduled for two days hence. But […]
Soniya Gajera had moved to the US with a dream. All the 30-year-old from Gujarat desired was a better life. She worked part-time and was training to become a cosmetologist. That dream ended in seconds this month. A gun went off inside Mezo Grocery and Deli in Bossier City, Louisiana. The bullet entered through her […]
TIME will launch TIME100 Next India, a new edition of its TIME100 Next franchise, recognizing the next generation of Indian leaders whose work and vision are shaping the future, in partnership with Reliance. The announcement was made on stage during the annual TIME100 Gala in New York City on Thursday by TIME Chief Executive Officer Jessica […]
India’s doping crisis has finally run out of places to hide. The Athletics Integrity Unit Board has downgraded the Athletics Federation of India. It’s a formal acknowledgement of what the data has been showing for years. The doping risk among Indian athletes is “extremely high”, the autonomous body set up by World Athletics reportedly said. […]
The allure of green card isn’t the same anymore. Not many green card holders are keen on US citizenship. And those who do apply are finding the process increasingly onerous. Fresh figures from US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) tell a story. It has observed sharp swings in naturalisation numbers through 2025. The year ended […]
At least 11 people were injured after a violent confrontation broke out inside a gurdwara in Moers, a city in western Germany, triggering a major police operation and raising concerns over internal disputes spilling into public violence. The incident unfolded in the Duisburg locality, where around 40 individuals were reportedly involved in a heated clash […]
The US is not a foreign country to most Gujaratis. It is, in many ways, a second home. For generations, families from Gujarat have sent sons and daughters across the ocean for college degrees, business, for a shot at something better. But for many Gujaratis, going to the US has now become an obsession bordering […]
Nine months after the Air India crash took his wife and toddler daughter, Mohammadmiya Sethwala is fighting a new battle, this time with immigration authorities in the UK. The 28-year-old Vadodara native received an email from the UK Home Office this month rejecting his application to stay on in the country. The authorities have granted […]
A month seems like a lifetime to Dixit Solanki’s family. They still cannot bring him home, not even his remains. Solanki, just 32, was one of many young men for whom the sea remains what poet John Masefield said was a wild call that may not be denied. A call he had been answering for […]
Thirty thousand people lost their jobs before breakfast. Oracle reportedly sent the email at 6am on March 31 with no warning, no preamble. Just a message informing employees that the day they opened it was their last. The tech giant called it a broader organisational change. The Internet called it something else entirely. The mass layoff did not […]
He wanted to go to America for business. It did not go as planned. The agents promised him America. What they delivered was something else entirely. He saved, paid up and trusted the wrong people. The American dream ended in deportation. Samir (not his real name) who was deported from the US has filed a criminal […]
Indians have found themselves targets of suspicion and resentment in country after country, their presence in public life increasingly treated as something to be questioned. The latest example comes from Canada. A social media post by Canadian political figure Daniel Tyrie has triggered sharp backlash online. Tyrie questioned why Global Affairs Canada was run completely […]
