Indian visitors to U.S. sees almost 13% dip in 2017
A man holds the flags of India and the U.S. while people take part in the 35th India Day Parade in New York August 16, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Files NEW YORK – The U.S. National Travel and Tourism...
View ArticleHusband and wife duo sentenced in foreign call center scam in the US
NEW YORK – Indians Manish Patel and his wife, Nikita Shukla, both 26, pleaded guilty in September to one count of wire fraud and were sentenced by U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller, last week....
View ArticleMany American Gujaratis, and the U.S. investor community see Modi as key to...
Narendra Modis win (Courtesy: Twitter, Amit Shah) The victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Gujarat elections is more an affirmation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development policies...
View ArticleReal Estate Professionals Hold Annual Meeting
The Association of South Asian Real Estate Professionals (ASARP) held its second annual gathering Dec. 15, at The Meadows Club, Rolling Meadows, IL., to discuss the latest tax reforms proposed by...
View ArticleVaishnavs Hold ‘Toys For Tots’ Event In Chicago
The Vaishnav Samaj of Midwest (VSM) and Vallabh Youth Organization – Education (VYOE), a global nonprofit, sponsored their first Toys for Tots event at Shreejidwar Haveli, in Addison, Illinois. Among...
View ArticleWomen’s Empowerment Campaign Launched In Chicagoland
India’s Consul General Neeta Bhushan, second from right, with the three organizers at the launch of the women’s empowerment initiative in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, Dec. 9. More than 150 guests...
View ArticleRamayana Dance Drama Attracts Hundreds From Multicultural Communities
The International Ramayana Institute of North America (IRINA), in cooperation with the leading Indian, Indonesian and Thai Dance Drama Academies held the Ramayana Dance Drama at the Rosary High School...
View ArticleIndian American founder of eGlobalTech dies at 54
Sonya Jain (Courtesy: LinkedIn) Indian American Sonya Jain, the CEO of eGlobalTech, a government IT contractor, died on Sunday, Dec. 17, at the age of 54 after a long battle with cancer. According to a...
View ArticleTwo Indian American moteliers plead guilty to harboring illegal alien
Indian Americans Vishnubhai Chaudhari, 50, and Leelabahen Chaudhari, 44, of Kimball, Nebraska, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of alien harboring for financial gain. According...
View ArticleIndian American man from Michigan and his wife accused of sex crimes, to...
Anuj Chopra and his wife Leslie Chopra, both 42, have been ordered to stand trial on allegations they tried to entice their daughter’s teen friends for sex. According to an Associated Press report,...
View ArticleIndian-American lawyer breaks litigation record of late Supreme Court Justice...
Neal Katyal (Photo: Hogan Lovells) One of the best-known legal minds in the U.S, and former acting solicitor general of the country during the Obama administration, just broke the litigation record set...
View ArticleIndian professor is Scientist of the Year
Mashkoor Choudhry (Photo: IANS) CHICAGO, IL The Loyola Stritch School of Medicine has named Mashkoor Choudhry the school’s Senior Scientist of the Year. Choudhry serves as a professor in the surgery...
View ArticleIndian American arrested for posing as physician
Indian American Vishal Patel, 30, of Glen Allen, Virginia has been arrested in Kansas as prosecutors claim that he posed as a physician and treated patients southeastern Virginia. According to an...
View ArticleEmbassy of India in Washington D.C. Celebrates Hanukkah
The Embassy of India in Washington D.C. organized the celebration of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Dec. 19. The event was attended by around 120 guests, including Congressman Brad Schneider,...
View ArticleAs US snubs high-tech visas, Indians head to Canada
Photograph of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security logo. NEW DELHI: ThinkData Works Inc., a big-data processing firm, just hired a software engineer from Brazil through Canada’s new fast-track visa...
View ArticleCongress sends Trump tax-cut bill in first GOP legislative win
House Republicans passed the most extensive rewrite of the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years — hours after the Senate passed the legislation — handing President Donald Trump his first major...
View ArticleRutgers biomed engineers develop faster, more accurate cancer detection method
Prabhas Moghe (Photo: Rutgers.edu) Using light-emitting nanoparticles, Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists have invented a highly effective method to detect tiny tumors and track their spread,...
View ArticleUS ambassador Haley warns diplomats on Jerusalem: Trump is watching you
WASHINGTON, DC – President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley appears before the Senate Foreign...
View ArticleDemocrats think the GOP is signing its political death certificate with the...
By the end of the day, Republicans are pretty sure they will have passed an historic tax overhaul that could save their imperiled majorities in Congress. And Democrats are pretty sure that Republicans...
View ArticleAmerica’s bitter divisions propel Brad Meltzer to launch a graphic novel...
Art from “I Am Gandhi.” MUST CREDIT: Dial Books BRAD MELTZER was becoming deeply concerned about the tone of our national discourse. It was a toxic form of crosstalk that he believed needed visual...
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