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Atul Keshap Confirmed As Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Maldives
Atul Keshap, current deputy assistant secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the State Department, was cleared by the U.S. Senate to take over as the new envoy to Sri Lanka and the Maldives,...
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Community Organizations Endorse Long Island Candidates
Community activists, business leaders and prominent Indian Americans from across Long Island gathered in Albertson last week to endorse Anthony J Santino, candidate for Supervisor of the Town of...
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India-U.S Ties Moved Up From Buyer-Seller Relationship: Ambassador Singh
Arun Kumar Singh, India’s Ambassador to the United States, said last week that U.S.-India relation has moved up the ladder from the initial stages of buyer-seller relationship, especially in defense...
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Businessman Charged With $1.9 Million Benefit Funds Fraud
Federal authorities have charged an Indian-American businessman with allegedly paying off-the-books cash wages to workers, some of them illegal aliens, and under-reporting their hours as part of a...
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Two Indian-Americans honored with health innovator fellowship
Washington, Aug 7 (IANS) Two Indian Americans are among 20 healthcare leaders named for participation in the inaugural class of a US fellowship programme aimed at transforming the healthcare system....
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Government employees are hit by dyed water from a water cannon used by Indian police to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Srinagar, August 10. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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‘Bangistan’ is an incoherent mess and all-out mediocrity
Karan Anshuman’s “Bangistan” is supposed to be a satirical, slapstick take on terrorism and racial stereotyping of Muslims. But what it ends up being is another story. The film, co-written by Puneet...
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India Day Parade In Edison Draws An Estimated 38,000 People
Oak Tree Road, Edison, New Jersey’s own Times Square, were filled with thousands of Indian Americans, mostly from the State, but also some from New York and Pennsylvania as they came together to...
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Sundar Pichai Made CEO of Google as It Becomes A Part of Alphabet
Chennai born, IIT Kharagpur-educated Sundar Pichai has become the head of a “slightly slimmed down Google”, with the search giant in a major corporate restructuring forming an umbrella company called...
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Teen’s Arangetram Enthralls Spectators In Elgin
Anjali Varghese, 18, performed solo for three hours at her Arangetram Aug. 1 at the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin that spectators felt was a visual treat. She kept the show engaging and mesmerized...
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Opposition Leader From Telangana Legislative Council Feted In Chicago
A reception dinner in honor of Mohammed Ali Shabbir, MLC, and Opposition leader of Telangana State Legislative Council was organized by American Telugu Association and Telangana Association of North...
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Organizers Bank On Celebrities To Attract Crowds I-Day Parade In Chicago
Sarfaraz Khan, son of veteran Bollywood actor Kader Khan and an actor in his own right, will perform along with singer Bappi Lahiri at India’s Independence Day Festival at Boomers Stadium in...
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Hicksville, Long Island Celebrates India Day With Parade
Hundreds of Indian-Americans gathered Aug. 9 on the streets to celebrate India’s 69th Independence Day in Hicksville, Long Island in a blaze of orange, green and white, the colors of the Indian flag....
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Indian-American woman jailed for killing pedestrian
An Indian-American woman will serve at least two years in prison for hitting and killing a pedestrian in an inebriated state in New York last year, a media report said. Malina Singh, 21, a resident of...
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Pichai Tapped to Run Restructured Google Within Alphabet
One of Sundar Pichai’s clearest memories of growing up in Chennai, India, involves picking up the results of a blood test for one of his parents. It was the early 1980s, and though the family lived in...
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India’s economic data brings cheer amid worries over stalled reforms
A vendor weighs potatoes for a customer (not pictured) in his shop at a vegetable market in Kolkata, August 12, 2015. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri India’s retail inflation cooled to a record low in July...
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Facebook struggles to sell advertising in India
Computer screens display the Facebook sign-in screen in this photo illustration taken in Golden, Colorado July 28, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Facebook is trying to lure skeptical advertisers in India...
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Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar among world’s tech billionaires
Washington, Aug 12 (IANS) Two Indian tech tycoons, Wipro chairman Azim Premji and HCL co-founder Shiv Nadar are in the Forbes’ first ever list of the 100 richest people in the technology field,...
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A Sadhu or Hindu holy man rows a boat near submerged huts on the flooded banks of river Ganga after heavy monsoon rains in the northern India caused the rise in water levels, in Allahabad, India,...
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A girl studies while sitting on top of a taxi outside her shanty home at a roadside in Mumbai, India, August 11. The post appeared first on News India Times.
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