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Rutgers Junior Shani Patel Killed In Robbery Attempt At His Apartment
Shani Patel, a 21-year-old student of Rutgers-Newark campus, was killed April 10 in a suspected drug-related robbery attempt by two assailants who entered his off-campus private apartment he shared...
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Rajat Gupta’s Memoirs Promised In Candid, Compelling Book
The meteoric rise and an equally dramatic fall of Rajat Gupta — the former head of McKinsey who was charged in the largest insider trading case in the U.S. — will be captured in a memoir to be...
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South Asians Flock To Homebuyer’s Seminar In Jackson Heights
Big name lenders and elected public officials attended a homebuyer’s fair, giving hope to new immigrants mainly from South Asia, that owning a home in and extremely expensive market like New York City...
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Holi Celebration At Wayne Hindu Temple, New Jersey
The Wayne Hindu Temple of New Jersey celebrated the festival of color March 22 with Holi puja, Satyanarayan Katha , and singing of Bhajans and of Holi songs by members of the community. The event...
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British royals meet victims of acid attack, domestic abuse
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on the third day of their official tour of India, met a group of Indian women, including an acid attack victim, to hear about a range of issues affecting women and...
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There is all-pervasive oppression: Prof. G N Saibaba
There is an all-pervasive oppression by the ruling class and we are confronting a bizarre reality now, said G. N. Saibaba, the Delhi University professor who was released on bail last week by a...
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Touched and humbled that Indian people are loving us: Pakistani actor
Celebrities like Fawad Khan and Atif Aslam from Pakistan have created waves with their talent in Bollywood, but Indian actors haven’t found much space in showbiz on the other side of the border....
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Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, sit in a jeep as they go on a safari at Kaziranga National Park in Assam, April 13. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, feeds a baby rhino at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) at Panbari reserve forest in Kaziranga, in Assam, April 13. The post...
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‘The Jungle Book’ leaps off the screen — to dazzling effect
Panthers and tigers and bears. Oh, my. The beloved 1967 Disney cartoon classic “The Jungle Book” takes on a dazzling live-action-ish life in Jon Favreau’s adaptation, a visual wonderment of color,...
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Bollywood films don’t always need a song and dance: Shah Rukh Khan
The Indian film industry is changing and films no longer have to have a song and dance sequence to be successful, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said on Wednesday. Khan, who was in London on a...
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Four Indian-Americans Among 2016 Guggenheim Fellows
Four Indian-Americans are among 178 artists, writers, scholars and scientists from the United States and Canada, who “represent the best of the best” in their fields of work, were named the 2016...
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All The President’s Scientists: Indians At White House Science Fair
On April 13, the White House was transformed into a hands-on showcase of student innovation: robots, prototypes, tools to help us fight climate change and cancer – all researched, built, and designed...
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The Female Guru Who Is Bringing A Niche And Intricate Indian Dance
It was a life-changing moment for Anuradha Nehru. Her guru, the late Vempati Chinna Satyam, the man who taught her Indian classical dance, was touring the United States with a solo dancer. He invited...
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April 14 Declared Bindeshwar Pathak Day In New York
Sometime in 1968 during Mahatma Gandhi’s birth centenary celebrations in Bihar, Bindeshwar Pathak was asked by a celebration committee member to work for restoring the rights and dignity of India’s...
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Plea to UN To Declare Ambedkar Jayanti ‘World Equality Day’
As the UN celebrated B.R. Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary by examining the relevance of his legacy to its global development goals, the world body heard a plea to declare April 14, the birthday of...
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New Jersey Girl Wins Science Ambassador Scholarship
Sona Dadhania, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, last week received the 2016 Science Ambassador Scholarship, given by Cards Against Humanity, after being selected the top winner by a panel...
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Six Indian-Americans Are Among 2016 Soros Fellows
Some of them have passion for civil rights advocacy and activism, some lived as undocumented immigrants for years before adjustment of status, while some others have developed novel HIV vaccine models...
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California Developer Sentenced for Mortgage Fraud Scheme
An Indian-American woman in California was sentenced to prison by a federal judge for mortgage fraud April 11. United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Aruna Kumari Chopra, 66, of...
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Doctor Sentenced to More Than Nine Years for $3.1 Million Health Care Fraud
An Indian American physician in Maryland was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for health care fraud April 11. Paramjit Singh Ajrawat, 60, of Potomac, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S....
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