Sikh community in US seeks gun-control measures
WASHINGTON, DC A Sikh group has urged communities of all faiths to observe Feb 5, marking six months of the Aug 5 shooting at a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, with a call to lawmakers to pass...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard joins push for US Diwali stamp
WASHINGTON, DC Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu-American to be elected to the US House of Representatives, has joined the co-sponsors of a House Resolution calling for the US Postal Service to issue a...
View ArticleObama awards science medal to Indian-American inventor
WASHINGTON, DC President Barack Obama has awarded Rangaswamy Srinivasan, an Indian-American co-inventor of LASIK eye surgery, with a national medal for science, technology and innovation along with 22...
View ArticleIndian-American gets one year prison for Insider trading
NEW YORK, NY A former Indian American employee of Galleon Group, who played a key role in the conviction of hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam for insider trading, has been sentenced to one year in...
View ArticleIndian-origin kid traumatized by brutal attack in UK
LONDON, ENGLAND A nine-year-old boy from an Indian-origin family was left terrified when robbers held an axe to his neck and demanded his family hand over their car, a media report said Thursday....
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Obama’s top Indian-American science aide quits
WASHINGTON, D.C Subra Suresh, President Barack Obama‘s top Indian-American science official, has resigned as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to become the president of Carnegie...
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Rajat Gupta ordered to pay Goldman Sachs $6.2 million
NEW YORK, NY Rajat Gupta, the former Indian-American director of Goldman Sachs convicted of insider trading, has been ordered to pay the bank more than $6.2 million for legal expenses connected to...
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Staten Island businessman on bail for writing $82 million in bad checks
STATEN ISLAND, NY Not so long ago, Saquib Khan was a savvy and suave businessman who hosted a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton’s U.S. Senate campaign in his Todt Hill home and chairing a...
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Indian-origin science writer wins inaugural British Physics journalism prize
WASHINGTON, DC Anil Ananthaswamy, a London based Indian origin writer, has won the inaugural Physics Journalism Prize sponsored by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Science and Technology...
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Nevada Muslims honor Hindu statesman
LOS ANGELES, CA In a remarkable interfaith gesture, Northern Nevada Muslim Community has honored Hindu statesman Rajan Zed with a “letter of appreciation”, for promoting interfaith dialogue. This...
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Punjab announces 10 per cent housing quota for NRIs
CHANDIGARH The Punjab government today said under the proposed industrial investment and the real-estate policy, 10 per cent quota will be reserved for NRIs. The industrial investment policy and the...
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Indian man allegedly commits suicide after fight with wife in Dubai: report
DUBAI A 27-year-old Indian man allegedly committed suicide in Dubai by jumping off the 10th floor of his apartment building after a fight with his wife, police said. The man, who had been married for a...
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Indian-American attorney to prosecute Boston bomber
WASHINGTON, DC Two veteran anti-terrorism prosecutors, including an Indian American attorney Aloke Chakravarty, are leading the case against the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar...
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US honours two Indian-Americans as ‘champions of change’
WASHINGTON The US has honoured 15 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women, including two Indian-Americans, as “champions of change” in recognition of their significant contribution to the...
View ArticleFees waived for Indians seeking to leave Saudi Arabia
DUBAI, UAE The India government has exempted Indian workers in Saudi Arabia, seeking to leave that country, from paying fees for issue of emergency certificates (ECs) for one-time travel to India,...
View ArticleIndian-origin doctors to meet in Chicago
CHICAGO, IL Over 2,000 doctors are expected to attend the five-day annual convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) – the largest ethnic medical organization in the...
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Indian-American boy Arvind Mahankali beats ‘German curse’ to win US spelling...
MARYLAND The US-born son of immigrants from India overcame his longstanding problem with words of Germanic origin Thursday to win the 86th national spelling bee. Arvind Mahankali, 13, from New York...
View ArticleBid to raise funds for Indian girl with rare cancer
DUBAI, UAE An 11-year-old Indian girl in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a rare cancer and her family is racing against time to collect funds for her treatment. Martina Thomas, who will turn 12...
View Article1845 ship of Indian labourers is big draw in Trinidad
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago As Trinidad and Tobago prepares for the 168th anniversary of the arrival of the first group of 231 Indians to the West Indies, the toast of the celebrations is the...
View ArticleFirst Muslim lesbians marry, seek asylum in UK
LONDON, England Against all odds, two former Birmingham students have made legal history by becoming the first Muslim lesbian couple to get married in a civil ceremony in the UK. Rehana Kausar, 34,...
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