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Meet Alexandre Singh, Oscar winner is son of an Indian immigrant from Punjab who moved to UK in the 1960s

Meet Alexandre Singh, Oscar winner is son of an Indian immigrant from Punjab who moved to UK in the 1960s

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Filmmakers Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata won the Oscars for their film Two People Exchanging Saliva in the Live-Action Short Film category. The Oscars ceremony saw a rare moment this year as there was a tie. The award was also given to The Singers by directors Sam A Davis and Jack Piatt. Alexandre Singh posed with his award for Best Live Action Short for Two People Exchanging Saliva at the 98th Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. (AFP) Who is Alexandre Singh Alexandre, speaking at an event recently, said that his father shifted from Punjab, India, to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. He married a French woman and had a son– Alexandre. He was born in 1980 in Bordeaux, France. The filmmaker studied fine arts at the University of Oxford. What did Alexandre recently say about his family He shared, “In the 1960s, my father left Punjab to come to the United Kingdom with a beard and a turban. Can you imagine what the reception was like back …

How a Pakistani immigrant who had given up on cricket and a South African troublemaker at school combined to reduce India to 77 for 6 | Cricket News

How a Pakistani immigrant who had given up on cricket and a South African troublemaker at school combined to reduce India to 77 for 6 | Cricket News

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There are moments in sport that transcend the scoreboard, when the underdogs write their names into public imagination. On a remarkable opening day at the T20 World Cup, as India—cricket’s superpower—collapsed to 77 for 6 in just 12.4 overs, two men stood at the centre of the storm: Shadley van Schalkwyk and the lightning-fast Ali Khan. One grew up facing academic struggles at a prestigious South African school. The other bounced a tennis ball against an American wall, pretending to be his childhood heroes, convinced his cricket career was over before it began. Together, they delivered one of the most stunning bowling performances in World Cup history. Stunning 6th over The Indian batting order read like a who’s who of T20 royalty. But in the sixth over, Van Schalkwyk—the unheralded seamer from Cape Town— startled them not with pace but canny surprise. Ishan Kishan. Gone. Tilak Varma. Gone. Shivam Dube. Gone. Van Schalkwyk served one well outside off to Ishan, who tried to thrash it but found mid-off. Next, Tilak was surprised by a short …

No Rohingya or Bangladeshi immigrant illegally residing in Mathura: Police

No Rohingya or Bangladeshi immigrant illegally residing in Mathura: Police

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No Rohingya or Bangladeshi immigrant is illegally residing in Mathura, the local police said, refuting claims that scrap dealers — predominantly from the Muslim community — are sheltering them. The response from the police came after two petitioners in the ongoing Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Eidgah dispute case wrote to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, demanding action against illegal immigrants as well as the scrap traders, who allegedly employ them in the district, reported PTI. Dinesh Kaushik, a resident of Govardhan, alleged that these migrants engage in ragpicking during the day and are involved in various crimes such as theft and dacoity during the night. Claiming that illegal infiltrators are present across all districts of the state, he demanded that they be deported from the country. He claimed that during police inspections, scrap traders hide these migrants in their warehouses and continue operating their businesses with their help. Kaushik, who wrote the letter on Sunday, also claimed that several seers from Vrindavan have extended their support to this demand, reported PTI. Dinesh Falahari, another petitioner, claimed in …

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

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Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,” has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media personality Jacob Engels, and disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz. “It’s like a citizen’s arrest, but with Wi-Fi,” Gaetz said on a recent episode of his One America News Network show. “Forget driving Uber or DoorDash for extra change. Snap a pic, save the day, and stack some digital cash while you’re doing it.” ICERAID’s website describes it as a “GovFi” — government finance, a term coined by ICERAID founder Jason Meyers — protocol on Solana that “rewards citizens for capturing and uploading images of criminal illegal alien activity.” (To be clear, ICERAID has no connection to the government.) And ICERAID isn’t just soliciting images of suspected immigrants. “You can snap a picture of someone committing animal cruelty or homicide, kidnapping, terrorism — you see someone scraping a Tesla, that’s …

Trump Supporter’s Immigrant Wife Arrested, Says He Does Not Regret His Vote

Trump Supporter’s Immigrant Wife Arrested, Says He Does Not Regret His Vote

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New Delhi: A Wisconsin man who voted for President Donald Trump says he does not regret his decision, even after federal immigration authorities arrested his wife upon their return from their honeymoon. Bradley Bartell’s wife, Camila Munoz, a Peruvian citizen, overstayed her visa but was working toward obtaining permanent residency in the US. Despite their ordeal, Mr Bartell still supports Trump, who has pledged the largest mass deportation effort in US history. “I don’t regret the vote,” Mr Bartell told Newsweek. “He didn’t create the system, but he does have an opportunity to improve it. Hopefully, all this attention will bring to light how broken it is,” he said. Ms Munoz arrived in Wisconsin Dells in 2019 on a work-study visa, which expired as COVID-19 halted international travel. She worked in farming and hospitality, where she met Mr Bartell. After initially losing his phone number, she later reconnected with him on Facebook, and they began a serious relationship. The couple eventually married but delayed their honeymoon due to the pandemic. In February, they travelled to …

‘Spent ₹40 lakh, stayed in US for 11 days’: Deported Indian immigrant opens up | Trending

‘Spent ₹40 lakh, stayed in US for 11 days’: Deported Indian immigrant opens up | Trending

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Feb 07, 2025 07:04 AM IST A man from Punjab said he met a broker on Facebook who took him to the US by “Dunki route” after making him stay in the UK for more than two years. As many as 104 illegal Indian immigrants were deported from the United States amid American President Donald Trump’s border crackdown. A US military aircraft carrying the migrants landed at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar on Wednesday. One of the Indians deported from the US has opened up about details of his journey through the ‘dunki’ route, adding that he stayed in the UK for 2.5 years before reaching America in 2025 and getting deported within just 11 days. A man from Punjab who was illegally living in the US was deported to India. (X/@ANI) The man, originally from Gurdaspur in Punjab, says that he met an agent through Facebook who took ₹40 lakh from him to help him “achieve his dream of a better life.” “I left for UK, 2.5 years ago and …

Sofía Vergara Reflects On Playing a Strong Immigrant Mother In Netflix’s Griselda: ‘I Knew Who She Was’

Sofía Vergara Reflects On Playing a Strong Immigrant Mother In Netflix’s Griselda: ‘I Knew Who She Was’

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In Netflix’s Griselda, Sofía Vergara embodies the Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco. Recently, the Modern Family star reflected on the complicated role, with which she strongly resonates. However, she acknowledged the emotional anguish that comes with playing such a twisted character. Growing up during the heyday of the cocaine trade in Colombia, Vergara was exposed firsthand to some of the devastating fallout from such a business, even losing one brother to murder by cartel goons in the early 1990s. Reflecting on her brother’s case, as reported by Deadline, she explained how people could be misguided by circumstances and necessity, and how poor decisions don’t always define a person as inherently bad. Vergara was struck by Blanco’s complexity. This was a woman often called the “Cocaine Godmother”—an infamous drug lord who was also a doting mother, fleeing Colombia for America to live the good life, albeit without a good conscience. She said, “I’m like, ‘Who is this woman?’ When I started investigating, I realized that most of her actions were carried out in the United States. …

NewJeans Star Reported As Illegal Immigrant Amid Contract Dispute With ADOR

NewJeans Star Reported As Illegal Immigrant Amid Contract Dispute With ADOR

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Last Updated:December 21, 2024, 15:50 IST ADOR assured the public that they are working on the documents to renew NewJeans Hanni’s visa. NewJeans terminated their contract with ADOR on November 29. (Photo Credits: Instagram) Just when you thought the drama related to NewJeans couldn’t get any more intense, reports have surfaced stating that one of its members was reported as an illegal immigrant. This comes after the five-membered K-pop group decided to terminate its exclusive contract with ADOR, a subsidiary of the South Korean entertainment giant HYBE. On December 20, 10Asia reported that an unidentified individual reported NewJeans’ Hanni as an illegal immigrant to South Korean Customs and demanded her immediate deportation. The K-pop idol, who holds dual citizenship in Australia and Vietnam, is required to renew her visa in South Korea annually. This usually isn’t a tedious process because an artist’s agency handles the legalities, but it is different for the NewJeans member. Earlier, media reports stated that Hanni’s E-6 Culture and Entertainment visa was soon expiring. She has been granted the E-6 visa …

The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh Review: Prime Video’s Indian Immigrant Comedy Plays on Familiar Stereotypes 

The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh Review: Prime Video’s Indian Immigrant Comedy Plays on Familiar Stereotypes 

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Whether it’s cinema, television, standup performances, or the millions of memes plaguing the Internet, the stereotypical Indian family has always been an object of ridicule. The moms are too controlling, food is uncontrollably spicy, curfews are annoying, privacy is obsolete, academic excellence flows through generations, and well… the list is too long to summarise here. But if you want a catalogue of these, Prime Video might have just what you’re looking for. Its latest series, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, is an unhinged compilation of these comical familial laws that Indians supposedly stick to and gives an unabashed 228-minute-long commentary on the same. The show also adressess the awkward nature of conversations around intimacy in Indian families The eight-episode-long series follows a typical Indian family, The Pradeeps, who have moved to Pittsburgh in the United States — the land of opportunities, as they call it. The family is headed by Mahesh (Naveen William Sidney Andrews) , the optimistic engineer father who made everyone move across the planet for a SpaceX contract, and Sudha (Sindhu Vee), the brain-surgeon …

Bangladesh MP Murdered By Illegal Immigrant, Who Peeled Skin, Chopped Body: Sources

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New Delhi: A Bangladesh MP, believed to have been murdered in Kolkata, was skinned, chopped up in an apartment and disposed of in several plastic packets across the city, investigations have revealed. The MP, Anwarul Azim Anar, had been missing since May 13, a day after he arrived in Kolkata. The West Bengal CID (Criminal Investigation Department) has made a significant breakthrough in the investigation after the arrest of Jihad Hawladar, an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, who lived in Mumbai. According to CID sources, Jihad Hawladar has confessed to his involvement in the murder and dismemberment of the Bangladesh MP’s body in an apartment in New Town, Kolkata. Shocking details have emerged of how the crime was meticulously planned and executed. Hawladar has reportedly disclosed that the mastermind was Akhtaruzzaman, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin. On Akhtaruzzaman’s orders, Hawladar, along with four other Bangladeshi nationals, smothered and killed the MP in the New Town apartment. On Wednesday, Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Anwarul Azim Anar had been found murdered and three people had …