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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 […]
In a major achievement by the Reliance Group, they are all set to build a new clean energy based refinery project, this time in the United States. Reliance Industries also runs the world’s biggest refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat in India. Gujarat origin Ambanis who own Reliance led by Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is all set […]
It’s been three years since a 23-year-old Indian student Jaahnavi Kandula died in Seattle. Her family in Andhra Pradesh is still numbed by the shock. Jaahnavi’s younger sister Meghana Kandula, 24, said the memories of her sister continue to haunt the family. But, while the world moved on, the family is not even allowed to […]
FBI’s Most Wanted: The Gujarati Who Allegedly Preyed On America’s Elderly He pumped fuel. He worked at cash registers. He stocked store shelves. A healthy, clean life on the surface. But the FBI uncovered something sinister in his operations. This man was stealthily managing a team that duped elderly Americans of their savings. Kalpesh Patel, […]
The escalating conflict in the Middle East is beginning to cast a shadow over Gujarat’s Morbi — one of the world’s leading ceramic tile manufacturing hubs. With fuel supplies from the Gulf region facing severe disruption, the industry is bracing for a potential shutdown that could impact lakhs of workers and ripple through the local […]
Savitha Shan (21) was just weeks away from getting a degree from the University of Texas. She was doing a double major in economics and management information systems. But fate had other plans. She was reportedly out on Sixth Street on Sunday night. The way thousands of UT students are on any given weekend. She never came […]
Slowly and definitely, the rupee is feeling the strain of the war involving the US, Israel and Iran. The Indian rupee sank to a historic low as global tensions showed no signs of letting up. Meanwhile, oil prices shot through the roof. The mood across financial markets reportedly turned cautious even as the local currency […]
Given the increasingly volatile West Asian landscape, rapid deployment of clean technologies is no longer just a climate imperative but a strategic necessity for India, one expert said. The possible disruption of ship movement through the Strait of Hormuz as a fallout of the recent offensive by the United States and Israel on Iran could […]
Fresh geopolitical turmoil in West Asia has sent ripples through Surat’s diamond industry, with traders fearing supply chain disruptions after missile strikes near Dubai led to flight suspensions and airspace restrictions across the Gulf. Dubai, one of the world’s most important diamond trading hubs, plays a pivotal role in connecting Indian exporters with buyers in […]
