March 24, 2026

NRI news

‘Exploited patients for sex’: Indian-origin doctor in New Jersey charged with medical fraud, assault on female patients

Pradip Karmakar04 mins

Indian-origin doctor charged in New Jersey for prescribing opioids taking sexual favors from patients. Ritesh Kalra, an Indian-origin New Jersey doctor, has been charged with multiple medical frauds, including the distribution of opioids without any legitimate medical purpose, billing the visits that never happened. Kalra also solicited sexual favors from patients in exchange for opioid…

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‘Bollywood-style performances’: Indian couple in Texas accused of multimillion-dollar fraud. Who are Sammy and Sunita Mukherjee?

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Indian couple Sammy Mukherjee and Sunita Mukherjee accused of multimillion dollar scam in Texas. Sidhartha Mukherjee, popularly known as Sammy, and his wife Sunita, an Indian couple in North Texas, who became local celebrities because of their Bollywood-style performances, have been arrested for allegedly defrauding more than 100 people in a fake investment scheme worth…

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Motive unknown: Indian-origin man arrested in Canada for threatening to kill Brampton mayor Patrick Brown

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Indian-origin man arrested in Canada for threatening to kill Brampton mayor. A 29-year-old Indian-origin man from Punjab, Kanwarjot Singh Manoria, was arrested by the Peel Police in connection with threats to kill Brampton mayor Patrick Brown. He was taken into custody Tuesday and charged with making threats to cause death or bodily harm. Canadian media…

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Indian-origin physician Sanjay Mehta pleads guilty to illegally prescribing opioids that killed two in US; had little to no experience

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Indian-origin physician pleads guilty to federal drug crime. (Representative image) An Indian-origin physician, Sanjay Mehta, pleaded guilty to unlawfully prescribing opioids, including to two poeple who fatally overdosed. He admitted that he procured the opioids by fraud. The 57-year-old man from West Virginia’s Shady Spring pleaded guilty to three counts of obtaining a controlled substance…

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‘Canada is a joke’: Indian engineer spared from jail after trying to buy ‘girlfriend experience’ from 15-year-old because…

Pradip Karmakar04 mins

An Indian man in Canada arrested for trying to buy sex from a 15-year-old but no charge was pressed against him. An Indian engineer in Canada, Akashkumar Narendrakumar Khant, who admitted to trying to buy sex from a 15-year-old girl, was given a conditional discharge by an Ontario judge, Canada’s National Post reported — sparking…

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US-born Indians are embracing their country of origin now more than before, claims report

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Indian-Americans are embracing their Indianness now more than before, claims report. Indian-Americans are leaning more towards their Indian identity than before and they feel they are equally Indian and American, though they are born in the US, a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed. The report based on the 2024 Indian-American Attitude…

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Sikh faith not a ground for less punishment: Indian-origin man jailed for crash that killed woman in Adelaide, he was driving at 160 km/hour

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Bhupinder Singh was sentenced to over five years in jail in Adelaide for car crash that killed a woman. He claimed he was bullied for his hair, turban in jail during the remand. (Photo: 7News) 24-year-old Bhupinder Singh has been sentenced to more than five years in jail, but not a life sentence, for causing…

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‘Tamil Nadu greatest state’: Indian-American techie’s X post stirs row; ‘I am also proud of…’

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An Indian-American techie’s ‘Tamil pride’ post on X divides the Internet. (Photo: @ChessBaseIndia) A prominent Indian-American voice on X, Sidharth who posts on tech, investment and recently on Elon Musk’s America Party, stirred a row on the social media platform through his Tamil supremacy as he called Tamil Nadu the greatest state of India. Sidharth…

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Underground poker ring, debt: Indian-origin engineer jailed in New Zealand for $1m fraud, he was planning to move to Australia

Pradip Karmakar03 mins

Indian-origin engineer Shyamal Shah jailed for $1 million fraud in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo: NZ Herald) An Indian-origin engineer, Shyamal Sushil Shah, a former Auckland Council employee, has been sentenced to two years and two months in prison for over $1 million fraud from the public sector, New Zealand Herald reported. Shah pleaded guilty at…

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