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Indian truck driver Vivak Sharma's interview went viral for all wrong reasons. The US transport department has recently issued an emergency rule that only green card holders will be able to renew their commercial driver's license. An Indian truck driver's interview with ABC 7 News went viral as he recounted the difficulty he was facing. But the virality was not because of his hardship but because of what he said in Hindi. The truck driver, identified as Vivak Sharma, said only green card holders and US citizens can have their commercial trucking license renewed. Sharma has been in the United States legally for the past 10 years, seeking political asylum. His final court case is next year and he has been driving a truck for the past eight years. But now he can't. Sharma said he was worried that he would not be able to send money to India and would now have to look for other jobs. As the video went viral, social media users had many questions, starting with why, despi..
The suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University, who killed himself, was found by police through an anonymous tip about Reddit post.Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown graduate student and Portuguese national, was found dead inside a storage unit in Salem and was also believed to have killed a renowned physics professor this week near Boston. US Shooting Probe | ‘He Killed Himself By…': BIG Reveal After Brown University Shooter Found Dead Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said the suspect, whose last known address was in Miami, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and acted alone, “as far as we know.”How Reddit post helped police?The five-day investigation got its breakthrough after investigators received an anonymous tip on December 16 about a Reddit post that suggested police look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates spotted around Brown’s campus.With that information, along with other witness accounts and corroborating evidence, police..
AdvertisementCrime in Hong KongHong KongLaw and CrimeHong Kong customs seizes HK$3.4 million worth of suspected drugs, arrests 2 menSuspected ketamine, cocaine and ‘Ice’ seized in two separate operations, department says
1-MIN READ1-MINNg Kang-chungPublished: 9:45pm, 3 Apr 2026Hong Kong customs officers have seized 6.5kg of suspected drugs worth about HK$3.4 million (US$433,800) and arrested two men in separate cases earlier this week.
The Customs and Excise Department said on Friday that the first arrest occurred two days earlier at Hong Kong International Airport, when officers found 3.1kg (6.8lbs) of suspected ketamine in the baggage of a 43-year-old man arriving from Bangkok.
The department said the suspected drug was concealed inside food packaging in the baggage.
AdvertisementIn the second case, officers intercepted a man, aged 41, during an anti-narcotics operation in Yau Ma Tei on Thursday.
Officers escorted him to a nearby hotel room where, in a subsequent search, they found a..
