Tragedy struck near the University of Toronto Scarborough campus as 20-year-old Indian-origin PhD student Shivank Avasthi was fatally shot on December 23, 2025. Toronto Police confirmed the incident as a homicide, with investigations ongoing and no motive yet established. The Indian Embassy expressed deep anguish, offering assistance to the bereaved family and highlighting concerns for international student safety.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tragedy struck near the University of Toronto Scarborough campus as 20-year-old Indian-origin PhD student Shivank Avasthi was fatally shot on December 23, 2025. Toronto Police confirmed the incident as a homicide, with investigations ongoing and no motive yet established. The Indian Embassy expressed deep anguish, offering assistance to the bereaved family and highlighting concerns for… Read More »Who was Shivank Avasthi, Indian-origin student shot dead in Canada?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":82181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}