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President Barack Obama poses for a selfie taken by veteran star player Abby Wambach as he welcomes the United States Women’s National Soccer Team to the White House in Washington to honor their victory...
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What a selfie taught me about culture, freedom and confidence
My 9-year-old daughter pauses in the middle of our walk together and asks for my iPhone. Then she requests I take a selfie with her. I start to dismiss her question and turn it into a teaching lesson,...
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India’s ‘rent-a-womb’ industry could close doors to foreigners
Soon foreign couples won’t be able to pay surrogate mothers in India to have babies for them — if the Indian government has its way. India is one of the top countries in the world for couples...
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India Pays Lip Service To Arabs, Strengthens Ties With Israel
Before President Pranab Mukherjee left Jordan on Oct. 11 for his trip to the Palestinian territories and Israel – the first ever by an Indian president – he quoted Mahatma Gandhi saying, “Palestine...
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India central to connecting next billion, world: Zuckerberg
The world cannot be connected without India, social media platform Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. “It is very important to connect people in India (one of the largest...
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Decrying socialism Bobby Jindal wants poor also to pay taxes
Deriding Democrats as socialists and fellow Republicans in Washington as weak and too quick to surrender, Indian-American presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal has proposed making everyone – including the...
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Bindeshwar Pathak Named For Prestigious New York Award
Social activist Bindeshwar Pathak, who for decades spearheaded an organization to construct nearly 1.3 million household toilets and 54 million government toilets based on an innovative toilet design,...
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Hindu ‘cattle patrols’ in India seek to protect cows from beef eaters
YADAVNAGAR, India — Dozens of men spread across the moonlit farm, hiding behind trees and wielding long-handled machetes and hockey sticks. They are devout Hindus, ready to fight for their religion....
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Growing Up Brown in America: When Every Day is Halloween
Sometimes, taking off the mask is what is really scary. I’ve been working on that the past few years. I found myself struggling to process a personal loss, mainly because I was more worried about how...
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Slammed Indian grandfather posed no threat: Cops
An Indian grandfather slammed to the ground by an Alabama police officer posed no threat to police, two fellow officers testified in the retrial of the cop charged with use of excessive force....
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Premal Shah’s Kiva.Org Wins Of Google Impact Challenge
Kiva, a San Francisco-based nonprofit headed by Premal Shah, a Stanford graduate , was last week awarded a $500,000 grant after being voted one of the top four winners of the Google Impact Challenge....
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Bindeshwar Pathak Named For Prestigious New York Award
Social activist Bindeshwar Pathak, who for decades spearheaded an organization to construct nearly 1.3 million household toilets and 54 million government toilets based on an innovative toilet design,...
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SAC’s Mathew Martoma Seeks Freedom in Appeals Court Bid
Former SAC Capital Advisors LP portfolio manager Mathew Martoma’s bid for freedom rests with a federal appeals court that’s weighing his insider-trading conviction. Martoma is serving nine years in a...
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Sachin, Shane Set To Bowl America Over
Less than a week after New York Mets and Kansas Royals play three of the matches in World Series Major League Baseball Stadium at Citi Field, New Yorkers will hear the smack of leather on willow as...
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“Titli” Is Not An Easy Watch
One of the recurring images in Kanu Behl’s “Titli” (Butterfly) is that of the eponymous protagonist sitting on a two-seater bike, squashed between his two brothers and unable to move an inch. His face...
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“Main Aur Charles” Neglects The Actual Story
If you grew up in Goa in the 80s (as I did), then there was no escaping O’Coqueiro. It was almost a ritual to take visiting friends and family to the restaurant and say, “This is where Charles Sobhraj...
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Obama Singles Out U.S. Soccer’s Indian-American Chief
– WASHINGTON President Barack Obama singled out U.S. Soccer Federation’s (USSF) Indian-American President Sunil Gulati as he welcomed the U.S. women’s World Cup-winning champions into the White House....
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Modi hols bilaterals with 41 visiting African leaders
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for India and Egypt to work together on reforms to UN Security Council as cooperation in counter-terrorism, agriculture, oil and energy figured in many of his...
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Beef party on Kolkata street to protest rising intolerance in India
A section of intellectuals and NGOs hit the streets against the rising intolerance in the country, by organising an open beef party here on Friday. Poets, theatre artists, political leaders took part...
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Tension in India due to provocation of minorities: Moody’s
The belligerent provocation of various Indian minorities has raised ethnic tensions, says Moody’s Analytics in a report that warned of “a possible increase in violence”. In a report titled `India...
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