A 44-year-old Sikh man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a sword attack, which left a man with 23 stitches to his face, during an annual Sikh Parade in California's Yuba City in 2018. Parmvir Singh Gosal, a resident of Tracy city, admitted last week to attempted murder and mayhem for inflicting injuries at the November 4, 2018 parade known as Nagar Kirtan, according to the Sutter County District Attorney’s Office.
The war, which has already claimed at least 1,800 lives on both sides, is only expected to escalate. The weekend attack that Hamas said was retribution for worsening Palestinian suffering under Israeli occupation has fired Israel's determination to crush the group's hold in Gaza — hiking risks of an expanded regional conflict.
Police are on the lookout for an armed suspect who robbed a store owned by an Indian-origin man in the US state of Virginia and fled with cash, a media report said. Shyamal Patel's Smokies Lounge smoke shop on Woods Edge Road was robbed at around 5 a.m. on Sunday when the suspect pointed a gun at the clerk, demanding cash, WRIC TV channel reported.
In a statement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: "More than 17,500 families, comprising over 1,23,538 people, have been internally displaced in Gaza, mostly due to fear, protection concerns and the destruction of their homes."
Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, had admitted to treason charges in February this year for scaling the Windsor Castle walls and telling royal guards on Christmas Day 2021 that he was there to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II.
An Indian-origin family of four has been found dead in New Jersey in what officials suspect to be a case of murder-suicide, police said. She identified the dead as Tej Pratap Singh, 43, Sonal Parihar, 42, their 10-year-old son and six-year-old daughter.
