Obama’s Liaison For LGBT Community Leaving To Join Hillary’s Campaign
President Obama’s Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Aditi Hardikar, who served as his liaison to LGBT communities, quit Jan. 12, to join Democratic presidential...
View ArticlePakistan arrests head of JeM militant group over Pathankot air base attack
Pakistan has arrested the head of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group on suspicion his outfit masterminded an attack this month on an air base in Pathankot, two officials said on Wednesday. Maulana...
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A woman holds her daughter’s head as they walk away after a blast near the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan January 13. The post appeared first on News India Times.
View ArticleMan charged with vandalism at Los Angeles gurdwara
A 21-year-old man has been accused of vandalising a Sikh temple property in California in December, and will be arraigned next month, according to a media report. Brodie Durazo of Buena Park, about 30...
View ArticleIndra Nooyi Becomes Biggest Alumni Donor To Yale
Indra K. Nooyi, CEO and chairman of PepsiCo and a 1980 graduate of Yale University, made a landmark gift to endow the deanship of the School of Management With the gift, the amount of which was not...
View ArticleNikki Haley takes swipe at Trump’s rhetoric
Citing her own success story as a daughter of Indian American immigrants, South Carolina’s Republican governor Nikki Haley took a swipe at her own party’s presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for his...
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President Barack Obama reacts to cheers as he arrives at the podium to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, January 12. The post appeared first on News...
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Guests in first lady Michelle Obama’s box, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, watch President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, January 12. The...
View ArticleIndian-American businessman wants to be mayor of Madison, Alabama
India-born businessman Hanu Karlapalem is in the running to become the mayor of Madison city in the US, a media report said. Born in Andhra Pradesh, Hanu Karlapalem now runs a network solutions...
View ArticleSania-Martina eclipse 22-year-old womens doubles tennis record
Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis survived a scare to win their 29th consecutive match and enter the women’s doubles final of the Sydney International here on Thursday. The Indo-Swiss tennis...
View ArticleIndia, Pakistan talks deferred after Pathankot air base attack
India and Pakistan have agreed to reschedule talks between their foreign secretaries, the Indian foreign ministry said on Thursday, while an investigation into a deadly attack on a military base in...
View ArticleObama and Nikki Haley fight the GOP faithful’s fury
The most venomous part of the Republican Party has seized control of the national dialogue. This forced President Obama to use his final State of the Union message Tuesday to battle against...
View ArticleNikki Haley Arrives On National Stage Challenging Trump’s ‘Noise’
Proudly proclaiming her Indian-American heritage, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley presented to the nation a kinder, gentler face of the Republican Party as she responded to President Barack Obama’s...
View ArticleClinton Woos Asian-American Voters Pledging Immigration Reform
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton sought to woo Asian-American voters Jan. 7 in San Gabriel, California, coinciding with her announcement of the launch of a grassroots outreach for...
View ArticleIndian-American Director’s Animated Short Nominated For Oscars
Indian-American Pixar artist and director Sanjay Patel’s animated short film “Sanjay’s Super Team” has been nominated for the upcoming 88th Academy Awards. The film has been nominated in the Best...
View ArticleIndia Out Of Academy Awards Race
Indian regional films “Court”, “Jalam”, “RangiTaranga” and “Nachom-ia Kumpasar”, which were vying for a spot in different categories of the upcoming 88th Academy Awards, couldn’t make it to the...
View ArticleArrest, Bail, Arrest: TV Comedian Kiku Sharda Faces Tough Act
Ator Kiku Sharda, known for his comic role in popular TV show “Comedy Nights with Kapil”, was on Jan.13 arrested, granted bail, released and arrested again for the same offense by Haryana Police....
View ArticleAkshay Kumar’s ‘Airlift’ Very Different From Average Bollywood Movies: Feryna
British Indian actress Feryna Wazheir, who has a “small but interesting role” in Raja Krishna Menon’s upcoming movie Airlift, starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur in lead roles, says that Akshay...
View ArticleJersey City Couple Alleges Baby Wrongly Placed In Foster Care
The two-month-old baby of Ashish Pareek, a Tata Consultancy Service employee living in Jersey City, New Jersey, and his wife Vidisha, has been placed in foster care after the infant was taken to...
View ArticleAlabama Cop Who Slammed Indian Grandfather Acquitted
To the shock of the Indian American community, a U.S. judge has acquitted an Alabama police officer who slammed a visiting Indian grandfather to the ground while taking a walk outside his son’s home....
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