New Jersey 2020 Dasara Navratri Utsav is celebrated in the month of October on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. Also known as Devi Navratri and Dushahra, the nine day festival is celebrated by performing puja to Goddess Durga and is concluded with Ayudha Puja and Vijaya Dasami or celebration of victory. Newark Avenue […]
Rao Desu (53), owner of several retail pharmacies including Heights Pharmacy in Piscataway, New Jersey was sentenced to 30 months in prison on September 23, 2020 for conspiracy to defraud IRS. Desu, a resident of Warren, NJ was charged and convicted on October 18, 2018 and October 21, 2019 respectively with two counts of conspiracy […]
Edison, NJ based IT consulting, technology and staffing company Savantis agreed on September 14, 2020 to a $345,365.16 settlement with United States Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Homeland Security, and Dept. of Labor to resolve allegations concerning violations of continuous employment and H1-B visa wage requirements. Founded in 1999, Savantis formerly known as Vedicsoft Solutions, […]
Tenafly, New Jersey Indian Rajendra Kankariya (61) pleaded guilty September 15, 20 to orchestrating and participating in a fraud scheme against a bank in connection with a $17 million secured line of credit. Rajendra Kankariya was President of a now defunct New Jersey-based marble and granite wholesale company Lotus Exim International Inc. According to the […]
Montville, New Jersey Indian Ankur Agarwal (45) was sentenced to 94 months in prison perpetrating a sophisticated computer hacking scheme against two New Jersey companies and stealing their data on September 1, 2020 in Newark federal court. Ankur Agarwal pleaded guilty on October 22, 2019 before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal […]
An unnamed Indian national from Hackensack, New Jersey is among the 77 criminal aliens arrested by the Newark (NJ) office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations during the 30 days “Public Safety” operation conducted from July 22 – August 30, 2020. Besides the Indian national, the arrested individuals include nationals of […]
Come August 22, 2020, Newark Avenue/Journal Square in Jersey City would become the center of attraction for Indians in Northern New Jersey. Like their fellow Desis, New Jersey Indians believe that once you surrender to Lord Ganesh and prostrate at his feet, good things start raining and all obstacles including H1-B Visa approval and renewal, […]
Two New Jersey residents, Dogar Singh (67) of Carteret and Rehan Afridi (36) of West Deptford have been charged in a multi-state bank fraud scheme which allegedly resulted in more than $10 million losses by federal prosecutors from Maryland. The multi-state bank $10 million fraud scheme involved 76 businesses including BBQ Tonite and Al Madina […]
Swedesboro, New Jersey Indian Amish Jayant Patel (47) was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison June 22, 2020 for traveling to Rhode Island to allegedly engage in sexual activity with a person he believed to be a 9th grade girl. The 46-months prison term of Amish Jayant Patel is to be followed by a […]
Manish Patel (33), an Indian Attorney licensed in New Jersey and New York, is indicted in Granite Bay, CA by a federal grand jury on June 18, 2020 with conspiracy to transport marijuana and concentrated cannabis oil in his Learjet. Manish Patel was charged with Marijuana offenses on August 15, 2019 in Granite Bay, CA […]