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Sex-trafficking Abolitionist From India Is Honored
A week after she spoke about the victims of human trafficking at a special event at the United Nations in New York, Ruchira Gupta, journalist from India and a sex trafficking abolitionist, was honored...
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14 Defendants Of Indian Origin Charged With Immigration Fraud
Fourteen people of Indian descent are among 19 charged with involvement in visa fraud through fake “green card” marriages or by falsely making claims of being crime victims, according to officials....
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U.S. Diplomat Offers Emotional Insight Into Ancestral Experience With Gandhi
The State Department’s point person for South Asia, an Indian-American, is conditioned by the history of her family in the independence struggle against the British Raj and Gandhi’s civil disobedience...
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Obama Honors Cancer Researcher With National Medal Of Science
President awarded the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to 17 individuals May 19 at the White House, one of them an Indian-American scientist at Harvard....
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Texas Teacher Of The Year Recognized At White House
Somner Elementary School teacher Revathi Balakrishnan, 53, the 2016 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year, was recognized by President Obama for excellence in teaching at a ceremony to announce the...
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Apple Is In India For The Next Thousand Years, Assures Tim Cook
“I am looking at India holistically and we are here for the next thousand years,” Apple CEO Tim Cook emphasized May 20 as the 55-year-old chief of Cupertino-based tech giant entered the final leg of...
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Audience Wants Modern-looking Mothers On TV: Hina Khan
There was a time when a streak of white hair denoted aging of a character on the small screen. Not anymore, says actress Hina Khan, who is unmarried in real life but now essays a mother of two in TV...
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15-year-old ‘Sairat’ Star Finds Fame ‘Unnerving’
– MUMBAI Like any normal 15-year-old, stardom is not something that “Sairat” star Rinku Rajguru had bargained for. Now, she says she is no longer able to do normal things, but all the attention that...
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The Sad Story Behind Canada’s Formal Apology To Indian Immigrants
In May 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a formal apology in his country’s House of Commons for an incident that took place more than a century ago. In mid-May 1914, the Komagata...
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Hoboken Councilman Battles Trump Supporter On Twitter
How the hell did Hoboken allow this guy to be a councilman? Shouldn’t even be allowed in the U.S. #terrorist.” That was a hateful tweet out of the blue for Hoboken Councilman Ravinder Bhalla, the...
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Buddha Jayanti Celebrated In Jackson Heights
An estimated 500 people, especially those of Nepalese and Tibetan origin, gathered at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights May 22 to mark the 2,560th birthday of Lord Gautam Buddha. The celebration in...
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To sidestep Pakistan, India embraces an Iranian port
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Tehran on Sunday and Monday to ink a major trade deal between India, Afghanistan, and Iran, which is in the process of unshackling its economy from years of...
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Kudos For Co-naming Of Jackson Heights Corner As Diversity Plaza
A stretch of road in New York’s Jackson Heights, an eclectic neighborhood boasting of a population of about 200,000, was last week officially co-named “Diversity Plaza”, honoring the heterogeneity of...
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Connecticut 7-11 Worker Becomes First Woman To Climb Everest 7 Times
A 42-year-old woman born in Nepal climbed Mount Everest for the seventh time on Friday, breaking her own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain by any woman, a hiking official...
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Anil Kapoor Acquires Rights Of ‘Prison Break’
After “24” and “Modern Family”, Bollywood actor-producer Anil Kapoor has now acquired the rights of another American TV series “Prison Break”. “I always go with my gut feeling. I know people will like...
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Aziz Ansari Feels Diversity In Films Not Getting Better
Indian-American comedian Aziz Ansari opined that its strange that the films which are based on author Nicholas Spark’s books, have white people only. Ansari shared his views at The New York Times’...
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Bollywood Has No Content Most Of The Time: Naseeruddin Shah
Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah, who is known for his work in parallel cinema, feels Bollywood films nowadays have no content most of the time. The Padma Bhushan awardee, who has films like “Mandi”,...
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The First Ever ‘Glory Of Hyderabad’ Celebration Held In Chicago
Over 1,100 people from different walks of life attended the “Celebration of the Glory of Hyderabad” held under the patronage of Consulate General of India in Chicago at Shalimar Banquets in Addison,...
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Spelling Bee makes changes to discourage ties
American sports fans love tie scores about as much as flat beer and broken baseball bats flying into the stands. But in the dictionary-dominated corner of competitive spelling, the word “tie” is in...
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Indian students win six awards at Intel competition
Indian students have won six awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in the US where New Delhi’s Shreyas Kapur was declared the grand winner of the “Google Thinking Big...
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