Protests against a divisive new citizenship law raged Saturday as Washington and London issued travel warnings for northeast India following days of violent clashes that have killed two people so far.
Lead Stories
Beena Patel, a former associate clerk in the Office of the Clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois, was sentenced this week to two years in prison for lying under oath to a federal grand jury.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning to scrap a visit to northeast India as the security situation there deteriorates following the passage of a controversial citizenship bill, media reported Friday.
Police in northeast India opened fire Thursday on a crowd demonstrating against a new citizenship bill, killing two people and wounding several others. Federal authorities deployed thousands of paramilitaries and blocked mobile internet access in the region to counter the protesters.
A married Indian couple living in Moenchengladbach was sentenced by a German court on Thursday after admitting to spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities for the Indian secret service.
Authorities deployed thousands of paramilitaries and blocked mobile internet in northeast India Thursday, while police fired blank rounds at protesters who defied a curfew to demonstrate against contentious new citizenship legislation.
India's top court on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the police shootings of four rape-murder suspects, as speculation grew that four other men convicted of the infamous 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape would be executed soon.
Featured Stories
Audrey Truschke, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, says the recent Supreme Court verdict on the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid controversy in Ayodhya has not done justice to India’s Muslim community and it is about advancing a Hindu majoritarian agenda.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) unanimously approved by the Lok Sabha on Monday is “a dangerous turn in the wrong direction,” and called on the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Home Minister Amit Shah.
Next week when tens of thousands of people of Indian descent fill up the pews in churches during Christmas, Josh Koshy, a New York-based young advertising executive will not sit in an ethnic Indian church with fellow Indian Americans but will celebrate the evening at a multicultural church in the city.
Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is embroiled in yet another controversy, at the expense of taxpayer funds, this time apparently trying to have taxpayers reimburse her the costs of jewelry, clothing and other possessions, including a $5,900 Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, that were stolen from her luggage during a work-related trip.
Several Indian-Americans are included in this year’s Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list which chronicles “the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada.” The list features 600 trailblazers “who are shaking up some of the world’s stodgiest industries.”
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina Governor and erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who was pilloried last month for vouching for the truthfulness of President Donald Trump’s utterances, has now been slammed for saying that the true meaning of the Confederate flag was about “service, and sacrifice, and heritage” until the White supremacist, Dylan Roof, “hijacked” it.
Recently the Indian government removed certain special rights granted to the residents of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. These rights were granted temporarily under Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution.
India’s Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent statement on Hindi being the one necessary language for India has stirred quite a big controversy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a huge rally, “Howdy Modi!” with President Donald Trump in toe, at the NRG Stadium in Houston on Sept. 22.
One would assume that the dramatic revocation of the much-maligned Article 370 by Prime Minister Modi on August 5, 2019 would open the flood-gates for KP’s to return to their ancestral land. But that is not going to happen, as KP’s having been burnt before want to see strong security before they return to their spiritual land.
Ravi, 15, can hardly speak about the time he tried to impress peers at his new college by smoking cigarettes stolen from his father. For, 30 years later, Ravi’s chronic cough and laryngitis turned out to be symptoms of throat cancer.
Sumir Chadha, co-founder and managing director of WestBridge Capital, who has emerged as one of the leading philanthropists among the Indian American Generation X’ers, has said he was inspired to give by his American friends
Indiaspora’s second annual philanthropy summit on Oct. 2, kicked off with the official launch of its inaugural ChaloGive online initiative to galvanize the Indian diaspora around giving at a much higher level than the Indian American community has been hitherto engaged in.
In what is expected to be a transformation change in the annals of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), Dr. Suresh Reddy, a Generation X’er, took over the helm of the organization on July 6 at the conclusion of AAPI’s 37th annual convention held in Atlanta.
Less than two weeks after he takes over the reins of AAPI on July 6, at the conclusion of the organization’s 37th annual convention in Atlanta, Dr. Suresh Reddy will hit the ground running when he will play host to AAPI’s 13th edition of its annual Global Healthcare Summit in Hyderabad from July 19-21.
Two Indian Americans are among 46 college students from across the country chosen to receive the 2020 Marshall Scholarship, which provides financial support to outstanding American scholars to pursue graduate study in the United Kingdom in any subject at the academic institution of their choice.
Next week when tens of thousands of people of Indian descent fill up the pews in churches during Christmas, Josh Koshy, a New York-based young advertising executive will not sit in an ethnic Indian church with fellow Indian Americans but will celebrate the evening at a multicultural church in the city.
More than 2,27,000 Indians are still in the waiting line for family-sponsored legal permanent residency or the Green Card in the U.S., according to news reports quoting official data. The latest data reveals that the more than 2,27,000 Indians are among the nearly four million such people waiting in line.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) unanimously approved by the Lok Sabha on Monday is “a dangerous turn in the wrong direction,” and called on the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Home Minister Amit Shah.
November 9, 2019 was a historic day for India. On this day, after a 70-year-long litigation, the five-justice bench (which included one Muslim justice) of the Indian Supreme Court issued its long-awaited verdict on the land dispute in Ayodhya.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. It may be an adage, but Prof. Stephen Philip Cohen (1936-2019) often paid from his pocket to prove it wrong. I am one among those scores of South Asian scholars, journalists and policymakers fortunate enough to come in contact with this brilliant and generous mentor.
Protests against a divisive new citizenship law raged Saturday as Washington and London issued travel warnings for northeast India following days of violent clashes that have killed two people so far.
Audrey Truschke, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, says the recent Supreme Court verdict on the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid controversy in Ayodhya has not done justice to India’s Muslim community and it is about advancing a Hindu majoritarian agenda.
While in her recent memoir, ‘With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit And Grace’ — the bulk of which dwells on her tenure in the Trump administration—Nikki Haley deftly does a diplomatic dance between currying favor with and distancing herself from the mercurial President Trump.
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina Governor and erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who was pilloried last month for vouching for the truthfulness of President Donald Trump’s utterances, has now been slammed for saying that the true meaning of the Confederate flag was about “service, and sacrifice, and heritage” until the White supremacist, Dylan Roof, “hijacked” it.
The hunt for work becomes more desperate every day on Delhi's street corner labor markets as India's economic slowdown bites deeper, piling pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi just half a year into his second term.
Several Indian-Americans are included in this year’s Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list which chronicles “the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada.” The list features 600 trailblazers “who are shaking up some of the world’s stodgiest industries.”
An IIT-trained mathematician from Kolkata, who is also a renowned musician, enthralled audience at Flushing Hindu Temple Nov. 9 with a vocal classical music recital celebrating Diwali and an annual multi-cultural festival organized by Ranjanee, a local dance and music academy.
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in at the Woodbridge Center Mall in Woodbridge, N.J., Sept. 2. Highlights of the festival include daily aarti, cultural programs and celebrity sightings.
Two Indian Americans are among 46 college students from across the country chosen to receive the 2020 Marshall Scholarship, which provides financial support to outstanding American scholars to pursue graduate study in the United Kingdom in any subject at the academic institution of their choice.
A total of some 250 mostly Indian students at a phony university in metro Detroit that was created by the Department of Homeland Security as part of a sting operation to catch students for alleged violation of immigration laws, have been arrested since January this year. The arrests have been made by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in the wake of the sting operation in the fake Farmington university in January.
Apple has renewed “Little America” for a second season before the first has even debuted. The half-hour immigrant anthology series comes from “The Big Sick” writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon and Lee Eisenberg, who is also the executive producer.
More than 400 Indian and South Asian American connoisseurs and aficionados of Urdu poetry from across the country, flocked to the 45th Annual International Mushaira on Nov. 16 at the Radisson Hotel in Rockville, Md., organized by the Aligarh Alumni Association of D.C. (AAA-DC) featuring Javed Akhtar, to pay tribute to the legendary late poet Kaifi Azmi on his birth centenary.
