The son of a 38-year-old British Sikh woman, sentenced to death in India for poisoning and slitting her husband's throat in 2016, has said that his mother "deserves to be hanged" for doing an "evil thing. Kaur reportedly connived with her lover Gurpreet Singh to kill Sukhjit for his 2 million pound life insurance and property in the UK and India.
An earthquake shook northwestern Nepal districts, and officials said at least 37 people were dead and dozens more injured as rescuers searchd the mountainous villages. Officials said early Saturday that the toll was expected to rise, noting that communications were cut off with many villages.
A 79-year-old Sikh man has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 15 years after murdering his wife with a wooden rounders bat at their home in east London in May this year. Tarsame Singh was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to killing his 77-year-old wife, Maya Devi.
A 30 year-old man, who beat an elderly Sikh man to death while calling him "turban man" during a road rage incident in New York City, has been charged with manslaughter as a hate crime. Gilbert Augustin also faces charges including assault as a hate crime and unlicensed driving in connection with the death of 66-year-old Jasmer Singh, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Tuesday.
An Indian student in the US state of Indiana is battling for life after a 24-year-old man stabbed him at a public gym thinking that the victim was going to "assassinate" him, a media report said. Jordan Andrade was arrested after he drove a knife into Varun's head at Planet Fitness Club's massage room in the Valparaiso city of Indiana on Sunday morning. Andrade told Valparaiso Police that "someone" told him that Varun is "creepy" and "threatening" and feared that he would "assassinate him".
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to be in Washington on Friday as part of U.S. President Joe Biden's push for greater economic integration across the Western Hemisphere. U.S. Ambassador David Cohen says Trudeau will be part of meetings in to help shape the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity, a Biden-backed trade framework.
