Someone ordered a pizza and then shot the delivery person in the head, leading to his death, reported CBS news.

He described himself as being proficient in data and data visualisation software and someone who was always eager to embrace new challenges and opportunities for continuous skill development.

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He earned a Master’s degree in Business from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business in Pennsylvania, United States, between September 2022 and March 2024. During his studies, he received the LeBow Alumni Merit Scholarship and developed skills in SQL, advanced statistics, and -related disciplines.

Prior to that, he completed a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Chemical Engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology in India, where he was also associated with the university soccer team. Professionally, he worked as a Data Validation Analyst in the United States, including roles at DataBank IMX and Validation Associates LLC, as per his profile. Earlier, he served as a Data Management Coordinator at Echo Hospice.

He worked weekends on pizza delivery.

Before moving to the US, he worked in India as a Senior Product Compliance Analyst at Amazon and held Operations Analyst and Graduate Engineering Trainee positions at Jio Platforms Limited. He also completed professional certifications from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and worked on projects such as an ple Stock Price Predictor, as per his LinkedIn page.

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In a CCTV footage ctured by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, the victim is seen walking with the pizza. He was then followed by two people wearing dark clothing and carrying backpacks.

“It was a tr. It was to kill him. I don’t know what they gained out of it or what intentions they had. They took my brother and killed him,” Kuncha’s sister told PTI, adding that his family were told that he was shot in the head three times and left on the road.

“We don’t have any suspicion…it’s a decoy. As per US media reports, it seems there were two gunmen wearing black masks with backpacks,” she added further.

Anshul’s sister sought justice and pealed to the Ministry of External Affairs to bring back the mortal remains of her brother.

She also shared a message for parents who are considering sending their children to the United States for further education and to build careers.

For the sixth-straight day, thousands of protesters have rallied in the Albanian cital against a proposed luxury beach development linked to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Environmental groups accuse authorities of lacking transparency and allowing for the destruction of protected biodiversity on the country’s Adriatic Coast.

CJP’s newly named spokesperson Saurav Das took to X to post a ‘thank you’ message for the police for extending support to the democratic protest and for detaining “anti-social elements.”

The political outfit, that emerged from an online campaign last month, organised a protest led by its founder Abhijeet Dipke at the Jantar Mantar demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s removal. The outfit warned that the agitation would expand across the country if he is not sacked or does not resign voluntarily.

In a statement earlier, it said thousands of young people from across the country gathered at Jantar Mantar in a peaceful demonstration demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Thanking the Delhi Police for their cooperation, the CJP said that the outfit’s priority was a peaceful demonstration, adding that the agitation remained peaceful throughout.

The CJP began as an online campaign as a result of an outrage against Chief Justice of India Surya Kant’s remarks. Within few weeks, the outfit garnered over 22 million followers on Instagram.

The group has now warned of bigger protests if no action is taken within seven days.

“This is the beginning of a movement. If no action is taken within seven days, this movement will spread across the country,” the statement read.

“Certain social media posts and news reports are claiming that Delhi Police has registered an FIR against the protesters at Jantar Mantar. It is clarified that no such FIR has been registered,” a social post of Delhi Police read, warning people against circulating unverified information.

Dipke, who called for the protest, arrived in Delhi from the United States on Saturday morning. He headed to Jantar Mantar after receiving permission from the Delhi Police.

“This is not just the fear of my mother, this is the fear of the parents of any youngster who speaks on politics…. How long will we live in fear? Tell them, we are not scared,” he said.

“My friends, this is a long struggle. It has been a month since we started demanding Pradhan’s resignation on social media, but these individuals are so shameless that instead of taking action, they have been focussed on other distractions, like hacking our accounts and getting our posts deleted. You may be able to delete our posts, but you cannot erase us from this space,” he added.

The impasse in the US-Israel war on Iran has turned Lebanon into the conflict’s most active front. Israeli forces are entrenched in the country’s south, a de facto occupation, and have reduced entire neighbourhoods to rubble. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump seeks to preserve delicate negotiations with Iran, but, as Israeli support for the war continues to grow, Lebanon remains a key point of contention.

Lead contributors:

Nicholas Noe – Senior fellow, Refugees International
Maya Rosen – Editor, Jewish Currents
Randa Slim – Middle East programme director, Stimson Centre

On our radar:

This week, two prominent American commentators, Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, had their UK visas revoked before scheduled speaking events in London. Both are outspoken critics of Israel, its occupation, its wars and the US policy towards it. The action by the UK authorities has called into question the right to free speech and political expression in the country. Meenakshi Ravi reports.

AfrofeminasGPT: AI through a Black feminist lens

Artificial intelligence systems are often trained on data shed by human bias. As a result, discrimination can spread through the systems that increasingly she our lives. In Spain, one woman is trying to change that with AfrofeminasGPT – a chatbot trained on Black feminist and decolonial thought, designed to challenge racism in AI. But can an alternative, built on the same model that it seeks to reform, ever truly be independent?

Feature contributor:

Mutale Nkonde – AI Researcher, Cambridge University
Safiya Noble – Professor, UCLA
Antoinette Torres Soler – Founder, Afrofemin

They were being taken on a tour of the labyrinthine building in between meetings with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and their pointment at Downing Street with the prime minister. They’d climbed the steep steps to the crammed public gallery to take a peek at the Commons Chamber when, by chance, the leader of the Commons, Alan Campbell, and his opposite number, Jesse Norman, both paid tribute to their son, and the dignity of the family.