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US: Multiple gunshots fired at Times Square in New York, people run for cover, video goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
Visuals of the incident show chaotic scenes in Times Square with people running around frantically after hearing the gunshots.
Crime

US: Police arrest Pakistani-origin Pervez Siddiqui in New York for $38 million Medicaid fraud scheme, accused used to donate money to Democrats

OpIndia Staff -
The fraud scheme began in 2019, with Pervez Siddiqui and other co-accused bribing poor and elderly people, though not in need of daycare, into signing up for the two-daycare. These enrollees received $500 each per month. Although the enrollees never attended daycare, the two centres used to submit Medicaid claims.
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Analyst Lauren Balik found dead in New York: From vilifying Hindus and Hindutva to asking users to curse Lord Vishnu, a look at her...

Shraddha Pandey -
Born in 1990, Lauren Balik worked as a data professional, short seller, equities analyst, Substack writer, and conspiracy theorist. She also ran an X account with over 33,000 followers. Balik publicly presented as Lauren Balik (female), although her birth/legal name was Steven Charles Balik (male). Local media reports hint at possible detransition days before Balik’s death.
Crime

Senior JPMorgan executive accused of using Indian man as her sex slave: Complaint filed in New York over alleged forced sex, using ‘rape drug’...

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A senior JPMorgan Chase executive has been accused of subjecting a married Indian junior male colleague to months of sexual abuse, racial harassment and...
Crime

US: Pakistani terrorist Shahzeb Khan pleads guilty to planning mass shooting at Jewish centre in New York, was inspired by ISIS

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Assistant Attorney General said, “Khan planned a mass shooting at a Jewish centre in New York City… with the explicit goal of killing as many Jews as possible.”
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US Court orders refunds for Trump tariffs, government may have to return up to $175 billion

Divya Bharti -
A New York trade court has ordered the federal government to refund billions in tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled President Trump’s use of emergency powers unconstitutional.
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Systematic repression of own people, killed thousands over basic disset: Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani calls Iran’s govt ‘brutal’

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"The Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people," New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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INS Sudarshini, Indian Navy’s beautiful sail training ship starts a 10-month long voyage across oceans: To cover 22,000 nautical miles, 18 ports in 13...

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Vice Admiral Sameer Saxena,  Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command of the  Indian Navy, flagged off the sailing ship INS Sudarshini from the naval...
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As New York votes for Zohran Mamdani as their mayor, here’s how his father Mahmood Mamdani had defended suicide bombers

Shraddha Pandey -
Mahmood Mamdani, a Ugandan scholar, author and political theorist of Indian origin. Known in the Islamo-leftist ideological circles as an outspoken intellectual and scholar having expertise on decolonisation-related studies, there is more to him. In his pursuit of criticising Western interventions, colonialism and deconstructing power structures, Mahmood Mamdani humanised terrorists and suicide bombers.
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Anti-Hindu democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s 1st Muslim mayor

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Mamdani's antisemitic remarks and loathing of PM Modi alogside Hindus have made him a controversial political figure.
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