India's financial capital was plunged into political uncertainty Tuesday after the president imposed direct rule on wealthy Maharashtra state after weeks of deadlock over who would form its government following fiercely fought elections.
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Pakistan has put on display a statue of an Indian pilot whose plane was shot down over Kashmir earlier this year, invoking the ire of India's media.
Kashmir on Tuesday marked 100 days since India stripped the restive Himalayan valley of its autonomy and imposed a strict communications blackout, with local journalists protesting the internet blackout.
Indian police have arrested dozens of people for social media comments that allegedly threatened "communal harmony" after the Supreme Court awarded a holy site once used for a mosque to Hindus, officials said Monday.
Twenty people died and more than two million others spent a night huddled in storm shelters as Cyclone Bulbul smashed into the coasts of India and Bangladesh with fierce gales and torrential rains, officials said Sunday.
Residents of Ayodhya scrambled for emergency food when India's Supreme Court warned it would soon hand down a final verdict on a holy site that provoked some of the country's worst sectarian violence.
A queens bartender enthralled by the soulful performances and lithesome dancing of Indian megastar Hrithik Roshan had to pay with her life when she was stabbed to death by her jealous husband in a fit of rage, apparently because of her infatuation with the Indian actor.
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Delivering on a promise he made to his key Indian American constituents and major fund-raisers—led by Digvijay ‘Danny’ Gaekwad — that if elected he would host the first-ever Diwali celebration in the Executive Mansion, Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis did just that on Nov.6, with a historic event that drew nearly 250 Indian Americans from all over the Sunshine State.
Kshama Sawant, the die-hard socialist of Seattle City Council, continued to keep the banner of labor and working class aloft last week as she won the Nov. 5 City Council election, holding on to the seat in her second re-election since 2013. Standing in front of a massive “Tax Amazon” banner, Sawant declared victory Nov. 9 after the re-election race that was essentially seen as a battle between the socialist and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, shot back into spotlight when The Washington Post revealed some juicy goings on in the Trump administration from her memoir ‘With All Due Respect,” ahead of its Nov. 12 release. In one of the claims made in the book, Haley writes that two of President Trump’s senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country.”
Two Indian American candidates—Ghazala Hashmi and Suhas Subramanyam—made history in Virginia by winning their bids for the state Senate and House in the Nov. 5 election, and along with dozens of other Democratic candidates were catalytic in turning this southern state totally blue as the Democrats took full control of state legislature.
In what appears to be a retaliation, journalist and writer Aatish Taseer, who wrote a cover story critical of the Indian government in Time magazine earlier this year, has been threatened with revocation of OCI, a key citizenship document that would limit his ability to work and live in India., according to PEN America.
It was a bolt from the blue for many in the Indian-American community when lawmakers, one after another, pilloried India in the Congress last month taking the Narendra Modi government to task for its alleged human rights violations against minorities, particularly its actions in Kashmir after stripping its special status under the Constitution.
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.
A queens bartender enthralled by the soulful performances and lithesome dancing of Indian megastar Hrithik Roshan had to pay with her life when she was stabbed to death by her jealous husband in a fit of rage, apparently because of her infatuation with the Indian actor.
Delivering on a promise he made to his key Indian American constituents and major fund-raisers—led by Digvijay ‘Danny’ Gaekwad — that if elected he would host the first-ever Diwali celebration in the Executive Mansion, Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis did just that on Nov.6, with a historic event that drew nearly 250 Indian Americans from all over the Sunshine State.
Two Indian-Americans made history in Virginia by winning their bids for the state legislature in the Nov. 5 election. Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Virginia State Senate, while Suhas Subramanyam was elected to the Virginia State House of Representative.
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, shot back into spotlight when The Washington Post revealed some juicy goings on in the Trump administration from her memoir ‘With All Due Respect,” ahead of its Nov. 12 release. In one of the claims made in the book, Haley writes that two of President Trump’s senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country.”
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.
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.
India's financial capital was plunged into political uncertainty Tuesday after the president imposed direct rule on wealthy Maharashtra state after weeks of deadlock over who would form its government following fiercely fought elections.
In what appears to be a retaliation, journalist and writer Aatish Taseer, who wrote a cover story critical of the Indian government in Time magazine earlier this year, has been threatened with revocation of OCI, a key citizenship document that would limit his ability to work and live in India., according to PEN America.
Two Indian-Americans made history in Virginia by winning their bids for the state legislature in the Nov. 5 election. Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Virginia State Senate, while Suhas Subramanyam was elected to the Virginia State House of Representative.
Kshama Sawant, the die-hard socialist of Seattle City Council, continued to keep the banner of labor and working class aloft last week as she won the Nov. 5 City Council election, holding on to the seat in her second re-election since 2013. Standing in front of a massive “Tax Amazon” banner, Sawant declared victory Nov. 9 after the re-election race that was essentially seen as a battle between the socialist and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
India's IndiGo announced a codeshare agreement with Qatar Airways Thursday, just days after ordering 300 Airbus planes, as the low-cost airline boosts its foreign ambitions and the Gulf carrier taps into the booming domestic market.
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her visit to Washington, D.C. for the annual World Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings, said on of. 16 that the Indian government’s plans to attract investment in Jammu and Kashmir would be unveiled soon.
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Sterba’s DanceSport in Naperville, Ill.
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 teenagers of “Indian descent” have been arrested by police in Lawrence Township, N.J. in connection with an alleged bias incident at a Lawrence High School football game. The unidentified 17-year-olds face multiple counts of harassment, bias intimidation and lewdness charges, according to news reports.
The “politics of dignity and equal rights” for marginalized communities in a global context, including of Dalits and other minorities in India, was the focus of a daylong symposium in Michigan Oct. 12, addressed among others by Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Director of Equality Labs.
Arshad Warsi says t is “outrageous” and "bizarre to another level” that he will be starring in a web-series from Amazon Prime Video.
It was in the fall of 2017 that Anu Bhat wrote “Hollow/Wave” to empower survivors, especially South Asian women. An autobiographical story of survival and healing, Bhatt told India Abroad that through her one-woman show, which incorporates a combination of theater, Bharatnatyam and stand-up, she is reclaiming her space and her story and empowering others to do the same.
