Ranjani Srinivasan was an Indian student pursuing a doctoral degree in Urban Planning at Columbia University. She was in the US on an F-1 student visa, which was revoked after she got involved in activities that were deemed pro-Hamas. The Department of Homeland Security has officially designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
According to official sources, while purportedly playing the ‘Blue Whale challenge’, the Indian student was holding his breath for two minutes which reportedly led to his unfortunate demise.
Paruchuri Abhijit, a student from Andhra Pradesh studying in the US was found dead in a forest. He was murdered on Univeristy Campus and the dead body was dumped in a car in the forest.
According to the Tippecanoe County Coroner's Office, officials were called around to 500 Allison Road in West Lafayette for a possible dead body. Upon arrival, a "college-aged male" was found deceased on Purdue's campus.
"Recent reports including in media of the handling of Ms Jaahnavi Kandula’s death in a road accident in Seattle in January are deeply troubling," the Consulate General of India stated on X (formerly Twitter).