1. Indian badminton star P.V. Sindhu had to with- draw from the All England Open Championship after being stranded in Dubai following the bombing of Iran.
2. A Washington, D.C.-based think tank reported that the United States lost 150,000 more people than it gained through migration in 2025.
3. TV host and cookbook author Padma Lakshmi offered to give Indian cooking lessons to Second Lady Usha Vance.
4. Narendra Modi became the first world leader to have more than 100 million followers on Instagram.
5. Bollywood actor Neil Nitin Mukesh cited three bounced checks as the reason he quit being the brand am- bassador of the music reality show “The Universal Idol.”
(1, 2, 4 and 5 really happened.)
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge. [Comments? Contributions? Please email us at melvin@melvindurai.com. We welcome jokes, quotes, online clips, and more.]